Seed (disambiguation)

A seed is an encased plant embryo.

Seed or seeds may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• SeeD, a mercenary working for Garden in the video game Final Fantasy VIII
• SEED, the unknown, plantlike life form that features in the video game Phantasy Star Universe

Films

• Seed (1931 film), a film notable for an early appearance by Bette Davis
• Seed, a 1997 short film starring Rose McGowan
• The Seed (film), a 2005 short film produced and directed by Joe Hahn of Linkin Park
• Seed (2007 film), a Canadian horror film by Uwe Boll
• Seed Productions, Hugh Jackman's film production company

Gaming

• Seed (2006 video game), a defunct MMORPG developed by Runestone Game Development
• Seed (upcoming video game), an upcoming MMO simulation game developed by Klang Games
• Map seed, a random seed used in video games utilizing procedural generation

Music

Groups and labels

• Seed Records, a record label
• The Seeds, a 1960s rock 'n' roll band
• Seeed, a German reggae fusion band

Albums

• Seed (Afro Celt Sound System album), or the title song
• Seed (Nick Harper album), 1995
• Seeds (Brother Cane album), 1995
• Seeds (Hey Rosetta! album), 2011
• Seed (Mami Kawada album), 2006
• Seeds (TV on the Radio album), 2014

Songs

• "Seed", by the Academy Is... from Santi
• "Seed", by Carbon Leaf from Nothing Rhymes with Woman
• "Seed", by Korn from Follow the Leader
• "Seed", by Mudvayne from The Beginning of All Things to End'
• "Seed", by Sublime from Sublime
• "Seeds", by Bruce Springsteen from Live/1975–85
• "The Seed (2.0)", by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt, 2003
• "The Seed", by Aurora from A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)

Periodicals and books

• Seed (magazine), a U.S. science magazine
• Seed (student newspaper), published at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
• Chicago Seed (newspaper), published in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in the late 1960s
• The Seed (novel), a 1940 novel by Tarjei Vesaas

Television and anime

Series

• Seed (TV series), a Canadian TV series
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a Japanese anime series
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, its sequel

Episodes

• "Seed" (The Walking Dead), 2012
• "Seeds" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), 2014
• "Seeds" (The Handmaid's Tale), 2018
• "Seeds" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), 2007
• "Seeds" (Sons of Anarchy), 2008
• "The Seed" (Stargate Atlantis), 2008

Visual arts

• Sculptures by the Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por
  • Seed Series (1998)
  • Seeds (2006)

Education

• SEED Foundation, operates boarding schools for disadvantaged youth in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland
• SEED School (Toronto), a Toronto District School Board alternative high school located in Toronto, Canada

Organizations

• SEED (organization), a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy
• The Seed (organisation), a controversial drug rehabilitation program in the United States that operated between 1970 and 2001
• Seed, a climate change activist organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people

Science and technology

Computing

• Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's Game of Life
• Seeding (computing), a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing
  • Seed (BitTorrent), a peer that has a complete copy of a torrented file and still offers it for upload
• Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME
• Random seed, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator
• SEED, a Korean block cipher
• Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language
• Backdoor.Win32.Seed, a backdoor Trojan

Other uses in science and technology

• Seed, a synonym for sperm or semen
• Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown
• AOL Seed, an open content submission website and platform where writers and photographers can submit their work, and then get paid for each work submitted
• Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data, a data specification from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
• Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru, a multi-year astronomical survey seeking to identify extrasolar planets and disks around nearby stars using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii

Other uses

• Seed (sports), a ranked competitor for the purposes of a tournament draw
• Seed (surname)
• Seed money, an early stage in the development of an entrepreneurial firm
• Bīja, literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things in Buddhism and Hinduism

See also

• Seeed, a German band
• Seeding (disambiguation)
• Seedling (disambiguation)