feedstock

noun

Etymology

From feed + stock.

  1. inherited from *stukkaz
  2. inherited from *stokk
  3. inherited from stocc
  4. inherited from stok
  5. compounded as feedstock — “feed + stock

Definitions

  1. Any bulk raw material constituting the principal input for an industrial process.

    • Bio-materials may be substituted for petrochemical feedstocks as petroleum prices rise.
    • The filtered extract of the mash is the feedstock for the fermenter.
    • In 2006, about 6 percent of the world's crude oil production was used in non-energy applications, primarily as a petrochemical feedstock.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at feedstock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at feedstock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at feedstock

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA