Seed (disambiguation)

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A seed is an encased plant embryo.

Seed or seeds may also refer to:

Astronomy

• 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

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

Publishing

• Seed (magazine), a U.S. science magazine
• The Seed (underground newspaper), an underground newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois in the late 1960s
• Seed (student newspaper), a student newspaper published at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia

Computing and technology

• 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
• Backdoor.Win32.Seed, a backdoor Trojan
• Random seed, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator
• Seed (BitTorrent), a peer that has a complete copy of a torrented file and still offers it for upload
• Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown
• Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME project
• Seed (sculpture), a USB flash drive or other digital object in which media such as music, movies, literature, and software has been embedded for resale
• SEED, a Korean block cipher
• Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language
• Seeding (computing), a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing
• Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data, a data specification from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks

Film and television

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, and its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, two Japanese anime series
• Seed (1931 film), a 1931 film, notable as an early film featuring the actress Bette Davis
• The Seed, a 2005 short film produced and directed by Joe Hahn of Linkin Park
• Seed (2007 film), written and directed by Uwe Boll
• Seed (short film), a 1997 short film starring Rose McGowan
• Seed Productions, Hugh Jackman's film production company
• "Seeds" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2007 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• "Seeds" (Sons of Anarchy), a 2008 episode of Sons of Anarchy
• "Seed" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
• Seed (TV series), a Canadian TV series
• "The Seed" (Stargate Atlantis), a 2008 episode of Stargate Atlantis
• "Seed" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2014 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode

Music

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

Albums

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

Songs

• "Seed", a song by Korn from their third album Follow the Leader
• "Seed", a song by Sublime from their self-titled album
• "Seeds", a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Live/1975–85
• "The Seed (2.0)", a 2003 song by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt
• "Seed", a song by The Academy Is... from their second album Santi
• "Seed", a song by Mudvayne from The Beginning of All Things to End

Gaming

• Map seed, a random seed used in video games utilizing procedural generation
• SeeD, a mercenary working for Garden in the video game Final Fantasy VIII
• Seed (video game), a 2006 now-closed MMORPG that was developed by Runestone Game Development
• Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's Game of Life
• SEED, the unknown, plant-like life form that features in the video game Phantasy Star Universe

Other uses

• SEED (organisation)
• Seed (surname)
• Seed (sports), a ranked competitor for the purposes of a tournament draw
• SEEDS, a non-governmental organization
• As a nickname for sperm or semen
• 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
• Seed Series (1998), and Seeds (2006), sculptures by Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por

See also

• Seeding (disambiguation)
• Seedling (disambiguation)