Seed

  1. When referring to computer programming, security, or software a random seed is a number or other value that has been generated by software using one or more values. For example, hardware information, time, or date are different examples of values that can be used as a seed to generate a random value that can be used by a program or with encryption.
  2. With BitTorrent a seed is client on BitTorrent that is only sharing a complete file.

Also see: Programming definitions, Random, Security definitions