streamwise

In the direction of a stream

Adjective

  1. In the direction of a stream
    • AEROFOIL. The name given to the lifting wing or, more correctly, to the shape of a streamwise section through such a wing. - 1976, Ian Naismith Sneddon, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Mathematics for Engineers and Applied...

Origin

Etymology tree English stream Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós Proto-Germanic *wīsaz Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz Proto-West Germanic *-wīs Old English -wīs Middle English -wis English -wise English streamwise From stream + -wise.

Derived

streamwisely