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crossfeed

crossfeed noun: the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.

crossfeed: the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording
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Noun

crossfeed (countable and uncountable, plural crossfeeds)

  1. (sound) The process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
  2. The supplying of one fuel tank of an aircraft or rocket with fuel from another, or of an engine with fuel from a tank connected to a different engine.

Verb

crossfeed (third-person singular simple present crossfeeds, present participle crossfeeding, simple past and past participle crossfed)

  1. 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.
  2. (sound) To blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
  3. 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.
    • It is now recognized that crossfeeding does not occur with derivatives of the mouse L-cell line (such as A9) , nor with certain HeLa clones. However, crossfeeding does occur with other heteroploid mouse lines (3T3 and derivatives), hamster BHK-21 cells and derivatives, and diploid human fibroblasts.1976, John W. Littlefield, Variation, Senescence, and Neoplasia in Cultured Somatic Cells, →ISBN
    • How can the results of crossfeeding trials be used to sequence mutant strains of the bacteria Serratia marsescens in the biosynthetic pathway for the production of prodigiosis?1985, Martha Robertson Taylor, Changing the meaning of experience

Forms of crossfeed

Noun
pluralcrossfeeds
alternative formcross-feed
alternative formxfeed
Verb
third-person singular presentcrossfeeds
present participlecrossfeeding
past participlecrossfed
pastcrossfed

Origin of crossfeed

From cross- + feed.

Questions about crossfeed

What does crossfeed mean?
Crossfeed means the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
What part of speech is crossfeed?
Crossfeed can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of crossfeed?
The plural of crossfeed is crossfeeds.

Words near crossfeed in the dictionary

  1. crossfades
  2. crossfading
  3. crossfall
  4. crossfalls
  5. crossfed
  6. crossfeed
  7. crossfeeding
  8. crossfeeds
  9. crossfield
  10. crossfire
  11. crossfires

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