The term seeding and related terms such as seeded are used in several different contexts: *

Sowing Sowing is the process of planting seeds. An area that has had seeds planted in it will be described as a sowed or sown area. Plants which are usually sown Among the major field crops, oats, wheat, and rye are sown, grasses and legumes are ...

, planting seeds in a place or on an object *

Cloud seeding Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail, or disperse fog. The usual objective is to increase rain or snow, either for its own sake or to prevent precipitation from ...

, manipulating cloud formations *

Seeding (computing) In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from. A peering, peer, a computer that is connected to the computer network, network, becomes a seed when having ...

, a concept in computing and peer-to-peer file sharing *

Seeding (fluid dynamics) Seeding is a fundamental technique in fluid dynamics. It is used to visualize and measure fluid flow. Researchers introduce small particles, called seed particles, into a fluid. These particles move with the fluid. This allows researchers to o ...

, a process done while attempting to evaluate the flow of a fluid *

Seeding (sex act) A creampie (also known as internal ejaculation, and often in same-sex contexts as breeding) is a sexual act featured in hardcore pornography in which a man ejaculates inside his partner's vagina (or anus) without the use of a condom, resulting ...

, a reference to internal ejaculation inside of a sexual partner *

Seeding (sports) In sport, seeding is the practice of separating the most skilled competitors from each other in the early rounds of a tournament. Players or teams are "planted" into the bracket in such a manner that the best do not meet until later in the competi ...

, setting up and/or adjusting a tournament bracket * Planet seeding, or

panspermia Panspermia () is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms,Forward planetary c ...

, a theory dealing with propagation of simple lifeforms to inhabit planets * A

seeding machine Filling a feed-box of a seed drill, Lincoln University (New Zealand), Canterbury Agricultural College farm, 1948 A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specif ...

, a mechanical device often used in agricultural work * A

seeding trial A seeding trial or marketing trial is a form of marketing, conducted in the name of research, designed to target product sampling towards selected consumers. In the marketing research field, seeding is the process of allocating marketing to specific ...

, an event done during a business' marketing research *

Database seeding In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analy ...

, populating a database with an initial set of data

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