Seeding (computing)

In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from.

- by Wikipedia

Example Sentence

  • Stack overflow question: what is a seed file and how can generate it and how can I retrieve the file later with that
  • Answer of above: Not sure of your context, but seed is usually a file (or a template) that contains some default values to begin with.