crossfeed (English, verb)
expansion: crossfeed (third-person singular simple present crossfeeds, present participle crossfeeding, simple past and past participle crossfed)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronautics
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To supply one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.
qualifier: sound
glosses: To blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To coexist on a single limiting resource where one strain or species grows on the primary resource and the second grows on the partially degraded resource excreted by the first.
Forms:
form: crossfeeds
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crossfeeding
tags: participle
present
form: crossfed
tags: participle
past
form: crossfed
tags: past
form: cross-feed
tags: alternative
form: xfeed
tags: alternative