forestream

The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing)

Noun

  1. The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing)
    • With strip cup eliminate the forestreams of each teat to detect abnormal milk, to be assured of let-down of milk, and to reduce bacterial count of milk. - 1956, Farm and Home News - Volumes 8-9
    • Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems. - 1961, Harvard University. East Asian Research Center, Papers on Japan - Volumes...
    • The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave. - 1976, Med Biol Eng, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Origin

From fore- + stream.

Forms

forestreams