Array and Stream

array

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

stream

A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
- synonyms: watercourse
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
- usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- synonyms: flow, current
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
- synonyms: flow
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
- usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
- synonyms: flow
A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes. )
- usage: "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
- synonyms: current

To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind.
- usage: "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
Exude profusely.
- usage: "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
Move in large numbers.
- usage: "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
- synonyms: pour, swarm, teem, pullulate
Rain heavily.
- usage: "Put on your rain coat- it's pouring outside"
- synonyms: pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
Flow freely and abundantly.
- usage: "Tears streamed down her face"
- synonyms: well out

(v.t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
(v.i.) To pour out or emit, a stream or streams.
(n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
(v.t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
(v.i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
(n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
(n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
(n.) A beam or ray of light.
(n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc. or from a vessel, reservoir or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
(v.i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
(v.i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
(v.t.) To unfurl.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(Military) STREAM stands for standard tensioned replenishment alongside method

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.