The Collaborative International Dictionary
Japan current \Japan current\ A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.
Wikipedia
People, places, and things commonly known as the Black Stream or a black stream include:
- the black stream glider, a species of dragonfly
- the Kuroshio Current
- in dowsing, a purported cause of Earth radiation resulting in negative effects.
- forms of illegal downloading.
Usage examples of "black stream".
We let the filings fail under gravity until the mass is a black stream, near absolute zero, moving at seven miles per second.
The black oil flowed down his arm while he unscrewed the cap with his fingers, and then the black stream ran silently into the bucket.
Parker opened it, and found himself at the edge of a narrow black stream that ran through the building, probably an offshoot of the stream bordering the park.
He thought of the oil wells spouting a black stream that ran over a continent almost faster than the trains of the Phoenix-Durango could carry it.
Instead, he bent over and spewed another black stream, longer, that broke into beetles darting across the floor.
The only sign of life was the black stream of smoke that continued to drift from the chimney.
Giogi set the statue on the writing table and idly stroked the glistening black stream of hair that flowed down its back.
The current of the cycling water drew his hair in a black stream toward the outlet, seemingly determined to pull Mikhyel's entire body with it.