Crossword clues for streamlet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Streamlet \Stream"let\, n. A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
Wiktionary
n. A small stream.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In scientific visualization a streamlet is used to visualize flows. It is essentially a short streamline segment. Normally the length of a streamlet is proportional to the flow magnitude at its seed point.
Category:Fluid dynamics
Usage examples of "streamlet".
We were tracing the streamlet, which came trickling down to supply the bason below us, as we climbed towards the little building.
The furrows run to the ditch under the reeds, the ditch declines to a little streamlet which winds all hidden by willowherb and rush and flag, a mere trickle of water under brooklime, away at the feet of the corn.
The faces are thoroughly Leonardesque, and through an open window in the background we clearly see the streamlet flowing between rocky shores.
Where their way crossed an icy streamlet or skirted a shallow pool of meltwater, the Otter paused a moment to splash and dabble.
Like an antelope he bounded, Till he came unto a streamlet In the middle of the forest, To a streamlet still and tranquil, That had overflowed its margin, To a dam made by the beavers, To a pond of quiet water, Where knee-deep the trees were standing, Where the water lilies floated, Where the rushes waved and whispered.
They paid scant attention to the small copses that dotted the hills and the valley floor, and almost none to the narrow streamlets that drained those hills into the river.
The Lycian coast was as famous for pirates as the coasts of Pamphylia and Cilicia Tracheia, for in the groins of the mighty mountains lay coves fed by streamlets, ideal for pirate lairs.
As from melting lakes the streamlets, And his body shrunk and dwindled As the shouting sun ascended, Till into the air it faded, Till into the ground it vanished, And the young man saw before him, On the hearth-stone of the wigwam, Where the fire had smoked and smouldered, Saw the earliest flower of Spring-time, Saw the Beauty of the Spring-time, Saw the Miskodeed in blossom.
I recognize it, and that to this the streamlets flow, thence pours the flood.
And there, in that secluded spot, Where silver streamlets roved, Twined the green ivy round the cot Of her I fondly loved.
She lay now half a mile from the main Elbe channel, in a shallow valley between two long sandbanks, with runnels and streamlets stretching in all directions through the rounded hillocks of the shoals, broken here and there only by planks and ribs from long-forgotten wrecks.