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 or object 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 leg ...

, 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 that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical p ...

, 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 peer, a computer that is connected to the network, becomes a seed when having acquired the entire set of ...

, a concept in computing and peer-to-peer file sharing * Seeding (fluid dynamics), a process done while attempting to evaluate the flow of a fluid * Seeding (sex act), a reference to internal ejaculation inside of a sexual partner *

Seeding (sports) A seed is a competitor or team in a sport or other tournament who is given a preliminary ranking for the purposes of the draw. Players/teams are "planted" into the bracket in a manner that is typically intended so that the best do not meet until ...

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

Panspermia Panspermia () is the hypothesis, first proposed in the 5th century BCE by the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraf ...

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

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