Crossfeed

Quick meaning: Crossfeed is a noun meaning (sound) The process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.

Meaning

(sound) The process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording.

More Meanings

1. (sound) To blend the left and right channels of a stereo recording.
2. (aviation, astronautics) 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.
3. (aviation, astronautics) 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.
4. (biology) 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.

Example Sentences

The emergence of crossfeeding interactions has been observed in long- term evolution experiments on E. coli in chemostats with glucose as the limiting resource

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?

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.

Word Forms

• crossfeeds
• cross-feed
• crossfeeding
• crossfed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mixdown, beatmixing, dubbing, downmix, stereoization, intermixing.

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