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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Upstream  \Up*stream"\,  adv 
  Toward  the  higher  part  of  a  stream;  against  the  current. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  upstream 
  adj  :  in  the  direction  against  a  stream's  current  [ant:  {downstream}] 
  adv  1:  toward  the  source  or  against  the  current  [syn:  {upriver}] 
  [ant:  {downriver},  {downriver}] 
  2:  against  the  current;  "he  swam  upstream" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  upstream 
 
    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) 
 
 




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