bitstream

American

[bit-streem] / ˈbɪtˌstrim /

Or bit stream

noun

a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.

bitstream British

/ ˈbɪtˌstriːm /

noun

computing a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically

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“The bits are still there. The bitstream files will still exist,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow, coming in under kids' media-hip radar and injecting the edfotainucational muchomedia bitstream direct into their cerebral cortices.

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