streamwise en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew-der. Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s Proto-Germanic *straumaz Proto-West Germanic *straum Old English strēam Middle English strem English stream Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos 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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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 Scientists, →ISBN, page 9: