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- 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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