Feed
Feeding is supplying food. Feed as a noun often refers to food given to or meant for livestock (also called "fodder").
In telecommunication, the term feed has the following meanings:
- To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or component, such as a transmission line or antenna.
- A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line.
- Note: A feed may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator.
- A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as a broadcasting station in a network.
- Pertaining to the function of inserting one thing into another, such as in a feed horn, paper feed, card feed, and line feed.
Feed also refers to rss or atom feeds used by news aggregators.
Feed was also the name of a popular e-zine, also known as feedmag.com.
This article contains information from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
