downstream

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downstream - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Downstream \Down"stream`\, adv.
     Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
     [1913 Webster]

downstream - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

downstream - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  upstream
  downstream
  
     <networking> 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)