Seed (disambiguation)

A seed is an encased plant embryo.

Seed or seeds may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• SeeD, a mercenary working for Garden in the video game Final Fantasy VIII
• SEED, the unknown, plantlike life form that features in the video game Phantasy Star Universe

Films

• Seed (1931 film), a 1931 film, notable as an early film featuring the actress Bette Davis
• Seed (2007 film), written and directed by Uwe Boll
• Seed, a 1997 short film starring Rose McGowan
• Seed Productions, Hugh Jackman's film production company
• The Seed, a 2005 short film produced and directed by Joe Hahn of Linkin Park

Gaming

• Seed (2006 video game), a defunct MMORPG developed by Runestone Game Development
• Seed (upcoming video game), an upcoming MMO simulation game developed by Klang Games
• Map seed, a random seed used in video games utilizing procedural generation

Music

Groups and labels

• Seed Records, a record label
• The Seeds, a 1960s rock 'n' roll band
• Seeed, a German reggae fusion band

Albums

• Seed (Afro Celt Sound System album), or the title song
• Seed (Nick Harper album), 1995
• Seeds (Brother Cane album), 1995
• Seeds (Hey Rosetta! album), 2011
• Seed (Mami Kawada album), 2006
• Seeds (TV on the Radio album), 2014

Songs

• "Seed", a song by Korn from their third album Follow the Leader
• "Seed", a song by Mudvayne from The Beginning of All Things to End'
• "Seed", a song by Sublime from their self-titled album
• "Seed", a song by The Academy Is... from their second album Santi
• "Seeds", a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Live/1975–85
• "The Seed (2.0)", a 2003 song by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt
• "The Seed", a song by Aurora from her second album A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)

Periodicals

• Seed (magazine), a U.S. science magazine
• Seed (student newspaper), a student newspaper published at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia
• The Seed (underground newspaper), an underground newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois in the late 1960s

Television and anime

Series

• Seed (TV series), a Canadian TV series
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a Japanese anime series
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, its sequel

Episodes

• "Seed" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
• "Seed" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2014 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode
• "Seeds" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2007 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• "Seeds" (Sons of Anarchy), a 2008 episode of Sons of Anarchy
• "The Seed" (Stargate Atlantis), a 2008 episode of Stargate Atlantis

Visual arts

• Sculptures by the Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por
  • Seed Series (1998)
  • Seeds (2006)

Education

• SEED Foundation, operates boarding schools for disadvantaged youth in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland
• SEED School (Toronto), a Toronto District School Board alternative high school located in Toronto, Canada

Organizations

• SEED (Organisation)
• Seed, a climate change activist organisation for Australian Indigenous youth, supported by Tony Birch

Science and technology

Computing

• Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's Game of Life
• Seeding (computing), a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing
  • Seed (BitTorrent), a peer that has a complete copy of a torrented file and still offers it for upload
• Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME
• Random seed, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator
• SEED, a Korean block cipher
• Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language
• Backdoor.Win32.Seed, a backdoor Trojan

Other uses in science and technology

• Seed, a synonym for sperm or semen
• Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown
• AOL Seed, an open content submission website and platform where writers and photographers can submit their work, and then get paid for each work submitted
• Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data, a data specification from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
• Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru, a multi-year astronomical survey seeking to identify extrasolar planets and disks around nearby stars using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii

Other uses

• Seed (sports), a ranked competitor for the purposes of a tournament draw
• Seed (surname)
• Seed money, an early stage in the development of an entrepreneurial firm
• Bīja, literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things in Buddhism and Hinduism

See also

• Seeed, a German band
• Seeding (disambiguation)
• Seedling (disambiguation)