# Seed (disambiguation)

A seed is an encased plant embryo.
Seed(s) or The Seed(s) may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Films

* Seed (1931 film), a film notable for an early appearance by Bette Davis
* Seed, a 1997 short film starring Rose McGowan
* The Seed (2006 film), short film by Joe Hahn
* Seed (2007 film), a Canadian horror film by Uwe Boll
* The Seed (2021 film), a British body horror film by Sam Walker
* 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 number or text string used to initialize a procedural map generator in a video game
* SeeDs, a fictional organization of elite mercenaries from the video game Final Fantasy VIII.

### Music
#### Groups and labels

* Seed Records, a record label
* The Seeds, a 1960s rock 'n' roll band
* The Bad Seeds (American band), American garage rock band active 1964–66
* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Australian rock band formed in 1983

#### Albums

* Seed (Nick Harper album), 1995
* Seeds (Brother Cane album), 1995
* Seed (Afro Celt Sound System album), 2003
* Seed (Mami Kawada album), 2006
* Seeds (Hey Rosetta! album), 2011
* Seeds (Georgia Anne Muldrow album), 2012
* Seeds (TV on the Radio album), 2014

#### Songs

* "The Seed (2.0)", by The Roots and Cody Chesnutt
* "The Seed" (Aurora song)
* "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", by Sasami from Blood on the Silver Screen

### 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
#### Series

* Seed (TV series), a Canadian TV series
* Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a Japanese anime series
* Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, a Japanese anime series

#### Episodes

* "Seed" (The Walking Dead), 2012 episode
* "Seeds" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), 2014 episode
* "Seeds", 2018 episode, see list of The Handmaid's Tale episodes
* "Seeds", 2007 episode, see Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 7)
* "Seeds", 2008 episode, see Sons of Anarchy (season 1)
* "The Seed", 2008 episode, see Stargate Atlantis (season 5)

### 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 (organization), a controversial drug rehabilitation program in the United States that operated between 1970 and 2001
* Seed Mob, a climate change activist organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people

## Science and technology
### Computing

* Random seed, a value used to initialize a pseudo-random number generator
* SEED, a Korean block cipher
* seed in data build tool, a type of CSV file based reference table for predefined data
* Seed (programming), a JavaScript library of the GNOME
* Seed7, an extensible general-purpose programming language
* 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
* Seeds (cellular automaton), a cellular automaton rule similar to Conway's Game of Life

### Other uses in science and technology

* AOL Seed, an open content submission website and platform where writers and photographers could submit their work and get paid for each work submitted
* Seed, a synonym for sperm or semen
* Seed crystal, a small crystal from which a larger single crystal is to be grown
* 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 (SEEDS), a multi-year astronomical survey seeking to identify extrasolar planets and disks around nearby stars using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii

## Other uses

* Bīja, literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things in Buddhism and Hinduism
* 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