seeder

English

noun
Definitions
  • (agriculture) A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill
  • An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc.
  • A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
  • (Internet) A person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.
  • (computing) A process that seeds a random number generator.

Etymology

Suffix from English seed.

Origin

English

seed

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