streamed

Streamed is the past participle of stream and is used as an adjective or verb form to describe content or data delivered by streaming technologies. In general, something that has been streamed has been transmitted as a continuous flow of data over a network, typically allowing playback to begin before the entire file has arrived. The term can apply to live broadcasts, on‑demand media, and other time‑sensitive data delivered via streaming.

In media and entertainment, streamed material is delivered in small chunks using streaming protocols, enabling adaptive bitrate and buffering management to accommodate varying network conditions. Streamed content can be live, where the broadcast happens in real time, or on‑demand, where previously produced material is made available for viewing or listening after the fact.

In data processing, streamed data refers to unbounded sequences of events generated by systems or devices and processed as they arrive, rather than after collection. Streamed data supports real‑time analytics, monitoring, and alerting. Technologies in this area include streaming platforms, message brokers, and stream processors that ingest, process, and route events with low latency. This contrasts with batch processing, which handles finite data sets at discrete intervals.

Usage notes: while streamed commonly describes content that was delivered through streaming, it does not by itself guarantee permanent availability or access, which depend on rights, platform policies, and storage. The term is context‑dependent, widely used in media and data engineering contexts.