downstream

About 4.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).
2. adjective Occurring later than something else; influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.

   Input validation is downstream of input entry in the runtime process.

3. adjective In the direction from the server to the client.
4. adjective Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
5. adverb Following the path of a river or stream.

   We spent the day paddling downstream in our canoes.

6. verb To stream downward.
7. verb Of the original developers: to make available (a version or patch) to downstream developers and users of the software.

Similar words

downriver upstream stream confluence downwind upwind below downhill clockwise descending

Often followed by

of from to and in side end processing direction