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Feed - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Bank, Banquet, Barley, Bed, Board, Bran, Bread, Break, Breed, Bridle, Brush, Bunker, Burn, Chop

The word feed has a number of uses:

  • Feeding is supplying food. Feed as a noun often refers to food given to or meant for livestock (also called "fodder").
  • In telecommunication, the term feed has the following meanings:
  1. To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or component, such as a transmission line or antenna.
  2. A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line. Such a feed may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator.
  3. A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as a broadcasting station in a network. See also raw feed.
  4. Pertaining to the function of inserting one thing into another, such as in a feed horn, paper feed, card feed, and line feed.
  • Feed also refers to RSS or Atom feeds used by news aggregators.
  • Feed was also the name of a popular e-zine, also known as feedmag.com.
  • FEED is also an abbreviation for Front End Engineering Design.
  • Feed was the title of a postcyberpunk book written by M.T. Anderson in 2002.

This article contains information from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Example Usage of Feed

wbm: http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos - now all we need is an rss Feed and mp4 files, just like they do at Mix.
Screenpens: #Hootsuite RSS Feed STILL BROKEN. ScreenPens.Com Feeds backed up 5 days and COUNTING. U-2? Join the complaint here http://ow.ly/E6fB
digitLEd: #Hootsuite RSS Feed STILL BROKEN. ScreenPens.Com Feeds backed up 5 days and COUNTING. U-2? Join the complaint here http://ow.ly/E6fA
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