The term seeding and related terms such as seeded are used in several different contexts:

• Sowing, planting seeds in a place or on an object
• Cloud seeding, manipulating cloud formations
• Seeding (computing), a concept in computing and peer-to-peer file sharing
• Seeding (fluid dynamics), a process done while attempting to evaluate the flow of a fluid
• Seeding (sex act), a reference to internal ejaculation inside of a sexual partner
• Seeding (sports), setting up and/or adjusting a tournament bracket
• Planet seeding, or Panspermia, a theory dealing with propagation of simple lifeforms to inhabit planets
• A seeding machine, a mechanical device often used in agricultural work
• A seeding trial, an event done during a business' marketing research
• Database seeding, populating a database with an initial set of data

• Seed (disambiguation)
• Seedling (disambiguation)
• Super-seeding algorithm