Reed - Science, Technology, Biology, and Medicine

Science, Technology, Biology, and Medicine

  • Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales
  • Reed bird (disambiguation)
  • Reed-Sternberg cell, related to Hodgkin's disease
  • Reed (weaving), a comb like tool for beating the weft when weaving
  • Reed relay, one or more reed switches controlled by an electromagnet
  • Reed switch, an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field
  • Reed valve, restricts the flow of fluids to a single direction
  • Reed reaction, in chemistry
  • Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times
  • Reed's law, describes the utility of large networks, particularly social networks
  • Reed–Solomon error correction, a systematic way of building codes that can be used to detect and correct multiple random symbol errors

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