Feeder (disambiguation)

Feeder may refer to:

Technology

• 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, 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
• 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

Vehicles

• Feeder bus
• Feeder ship, a small-to-medium container ship which collects and distributes containers between ports and hubs

Electrical

• In electric power distribution, a medium-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 switchgear to a distribution panel

Entertainment

• Feeder, the Welsh rock group
• Feeders (film), a 1996 low-budget horror film by the Polonia brothers

Organisms

• 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 decomposing organic matter
• Live food

Other

• 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 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

See also

• All pages beginning with "feeder"
• All pages with titles containing "feeder"
• Feed (disambiguation)