# Feeder

Feeder may refer to:

## Technology

* Feeder (livestock equipment)
* Feeder (beekeeping), any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources
* Feeder (casting), another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage
* Feeder cells, are cells that line a Petri dish to provide cell contact for cells or tissues that grow on top of the feeder cells
* Feeder, frontage road, or other small road eventually delivering traffic to a larger one
* Feeder line (disambiguation), a peripheral route or branch from a main line or trunk line
* Aquarium fish feeder, an electric or electronic device that is designed to feed aquarium fish at regular intervals
* Automatic document feeder, in office equipment
* Bird feeder
* Bowl feeder, used to feed components automation applications
* Bulk feeder
* Leaky feeder, a communications system used in underground mining and other tunnel environments
* 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
* In video game terminology, a character who dies repeatedly

## People

* Livestock feeder (person), a farmer rearing and fattening livestock

## Vehicles

* 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

## Electrical

* In electric power distribution, voltage power line transferring power from a distribution substation to the distribution transformers
* An electrical wiring circuit in a building which carries power from a transformer or switch gear to a distribution panel
* 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)

## Entertainment

* 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

## Organisms

* Feeder cattle
* Feeder cell, a fibroblast, a type of cell used in human embryonic stem cell research
* Feeder fish, certain types of inexpensive fish commonly fed as live prey to captive animals
* Fluid feeder (disambiguation), organisms that feed on the fluid of other organisms
* Deposit feeder, organisms that obtain nutrients by consuming dissolved organic matter
* Live food

## Other

* 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 barn
* Feeder bluff, in geography
* Feeder club, another name for a farm team
* Feeder formula, in formula racing
* Feeder fund, an investment fund which does almost all of its investments through a master fund via a master-feeder relationship
* Feeder school