seeding
noun
- act or process of sowing, planting, inoculating, or funding (as with seeds)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːdɪŋ/
noun
- The arrangement of positions in a tournament.
“Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of seed