Feeder

Feeder may refer to:

Technology

  • Feeder (livestock equipment)
  • Feeder (beekeeping), any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources
  • Feeder (casting), another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage
  • Feeder cells, are cells that line a Petri dish to provide cell contact for cells or tissues that grow on top of the feeder cells
  • Feeder, frontage road, or other small road eventually delivering traffic to a larger one
  • Feeder line (disambiguation), a peripheral route or branch from a main line or trunk line
  • Aquarium fish feeder, an electric or electronic device that is designed to feed aquarium fish at regular intervals
  • Automatic document feeder, in office equipment
  • Bird feeder
  • Bowl feeder, used to feed components automation applications
  • Bulk feeder
  • Leaky feeder, a communications system used in underground mining and other tunnel environments
  • Rotary feeder, a component in a bulk or specialty material handling system
  • Variable rate feeder, a piece of industrial control equipment used to deliver solid material at a known rate into some process
  • Vibrating feeder, an instrument that uses vibration to feed material to a process or machine
  • In video game terminology, a character who dies repeatedly

People

Vehicles

  • Feeder bus, bus service that brings people from a rail station or transit hub to their final destination or vice versa
  • Feeder ship, a small-to-medium container ship which collects and distributes containers between ports and hubs

Electrical

  • In electric power distribution, voltage power line transferring power from a distribution substation to the distribution transformers
  • An electrical wiring circuit in a building which carries power from a transformer or switch gear to a distribution panel
  • A circuit conductor between the power supply source and a final branch circuit over current device
  • Feeder link, a radio link from an earth station at a given location to a space station (up-link), or vice versa (down-link)

Entertainment

Organisms

  • Feeder cattle
  • Feeder cell, a fibroblast, a type of cell used in human embryonic stem cell research
  • Feeder fish, certain types of inexpensive fish commonly fed as live prey to captive animals
  • Fluid feeder (disambiguation), organisms that feed on the fluid of other organisms
  • Deposit feeder, organisms that obtain nutrients by consuming dissolved organic matter
  • Live food

Other

  • Feeder, a software application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on Mac OS X
  • Feeder (fetish), someone who gains sexual pleasure from helping another gain weight
  • Feeder Airlines
  • Feeder band, a band of squall-like winds and rain on the outside of a tropical cyclone
  • Feeder barn
  • Feeder bluff, in geography
  • Feeder club, another name for a farm team
  • Feeder formula, in formula racing
  • Feeder fund, an investment fund which does almost all of its investments through a master fund via a master-feeder relationship
  • Feeder school
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See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with feeder
  • All pages with titles containing feeder
  • Feed (disambiguation)
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