feed zone meaning: definition, quotations

feed zone

noun

Cycling, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A designated place along the course of a bicycle race where it is permitted for the riders to receive food and energy drinks from their team support personnel.

Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The portion of a device in which material that is input through a feed tube or other portal accumulates before processing.

Thus the base of the effective reservoir is placed at 1500m depth, the actual location of the deepest major feed zone.2012, R. Bowen, Geothermal Resources, page 105:
Pressure readings are taken downhole next to the feed zone and the total flow is measured on the surface using a separator.2015, Ronald DiPippo, Geothermal Power Plants: