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[syn: downriver, downstream]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Downstream \Down"stream`\, adv.
Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
downstream
adv 1: away from the source or with the current [syn:
downriver, downstream] [ant: upriver, upstream]
adj 1: in the direction of a stream's current [ant: upstream]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
upstream
downstream
Fewer network hops away from a backbone or
hub. For example, a small ISP that connects to the
Internet through a larger ISP that has their own connection
to the backbone is downstream from the larger ISP, and the
larger ISP is upstream from the smaller ISP.
(1999-08-05)