preseed

present singular third person preseeds · participle present preseeding · participle past preseeded · past preseeded

1. To seed in advance.

   […] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]

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   Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment.

   1982, Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics, page 146

   Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year.

   1986, Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics, page 18

   If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […]

   1998, Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History, page 93

   Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of λKH54 and λKH54h80.

   2003, Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols, page 245

plural preseeds

1. biotechnologyA medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.

   The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.

   1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, “Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor”, in Biotechnology Progress

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   The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]

   1988, Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists, page 157

comparative more preseed · superlative most preseed

1. Before a seeding or seed stage of development.

   The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.

   2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31

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   Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....]

   1972, John Gliedman, Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing, page 71

   There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed, and seed) [...]

   2006, Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister, Research Administration and Management, page 799