What does the terminology "Database seeding" mean?

What is database seeding in the context of Core Data?

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In the context of core data seeding just means shipping your app with a persistent store pre-populated with default data. In the recipes example Apple has, the seeded data is the recipe data that they have in the sqlite database that's a part of the project.

Database seeding is the initial seeding of a database with data.

This is often an automated process that is executed upon the initial setup of an application.

The data can be dummy data or necessary data such as an initial administrator account.