Feeder

Feeder may refer to:

Feeder line (disambiguation), a peripheral route or branch from a main line or trunk line

• Feeder (livestock equipment)
• Feeder (beekeeping), any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources
• Bird feeder
• Aquarium fish feeder, an electric or electronic device that is designed to feed aquarium fish at regular intervals
• Feeder cattle
• Feeder fish, certain types of inexpensive fish commonly fed as live prey to captive animals
• Live food
• Feeder barn
• Livestock feeder (person), a farmer rearing and fattening livestock

• Feeder cell, a fibroblast, a type of cell used in human embryonic stem cell research
• Feeder cells, cells that line a Petri dish to provide cell contact for other cells so that the latter can grow on top of the former
• Bulk feeder, an organism that obtains nutrients by eating all of an organism
• Fluid feeder (disambiguation), organisms that feed on the fluid of other organisms
• Deposit feeder, organisms that obtain nutrients by consuming dissolved organic matter

• Automatic document feeder, in office equipment
• Bowl feeder, used to feed components automation applications
• 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

• 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

• Feeder, a power line that transfers power from a distribution substation to the distribution transformers in electric power distribution
• Feeder, an electrical wiring circuit in a building that carries power from a transformer or switchgear to a distribution panel
• Feeder, 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 line (network), a branch line of a communications or other network
• Leaky feeder, a communications system used in underground mining and other tunnel environments

• 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 club, another name for a farm team
• Feeder formula, in formula racing

• 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 bluff, in geography
• Feeder fund, an investment fund which does almost all of its investments through a master fund via a master-feeder relationship
• Feeder school
• Feeder (casting), another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage
• Feeder, a frontage road or other small road eventually delivering traffic to a larger one
• Feeder, a character who dies repeatedly in video game terminology

• Feed (disambiguation)