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crossfeed

The English word “crossfeed” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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

  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. 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.

Etymology

From cross- + feed.

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