Feeder Explained

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

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

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)

Feeder (band), a Welsh rock group
Feeders (film), a 1996 American science fiction horror film
"The Feeder", story by Mildred Cram adapted to film as Behind the Make-Up in 1930

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

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