Feeder

Last updated July 19, 2025

Feeder may refer to:

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

Agriculture, biology and pets

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