Feed

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The word feed has a number of uses:

  • 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:
  1. To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or component, such as a transmission line or antenna.
  2. A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line. Such a feed may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator.
  3. 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. See also raw feed.
  4. Pertaining to the function of inserting one thing into another, such as in a feed horn, paper feed, card feed, and line feed.

This article contains information from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

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