(pharmacology) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

(pharmacology) An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

plural of sedative

(electronics) Initialism of surface-conduction electron-emitter display. / (astronomy, physics) Initialism of spectral energy distribution. / (pathology) Initialism of selective eating disorder.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sed

plural of sed

Eye dialect spelling of said.

(neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.

(fishing) A line fastening a fish-hook.

(computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.