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breeder
Breeder (noun) means someone who raises plants or animals for a living in order to produce more of them.
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Someone who raises plants or animals for a living in order to produce more of them.
"Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly."
— Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious (2016)
2
Short for breeder reactor, a nuclear reactor that produces more fuel than it uses up.
3
(in cellular automata) A pattern that grows quickly by repeatedly copying smaller patterns inside itself.
"A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin."
— Dave Greene, Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe (2008)
"I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled."
— Owen Rees, Wolfram and (2002)
4
(informal) Someone who has children, or can have them, especially seen as focused on family life.
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Etymology
Formed from breed and -er, and cognate with West Frisian brieder (“one who breeds, breeder”) and Dutch broeier (“brooder, vagrant”).
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What is the meaning of breeder?
"breeder" (noun) means someone who raises plants or animals for a living in order to produce more of them.
What are the different meanings of breeder?
"breeder" has 3 main meanings: 1. Someone who raises plants or animals for a living in order to produce more of them; 2. Short for breeder reactor, a nuclear reactor that produces more fuel than it uses up; 3. (in cellular automata) A pattern that grows quickly by repeatedly copying smaller patterns inside itself.
