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SCIENCE	The Use of Mind to Discover Generalized Laws
SEARCH	To Make a Through Examination, Explore, Question
SEEABILITY	Quality of Being Visible to the Human Sensory Apparatus
Semi-Regular Solid	Same as Archimedean Solid
SHEAR	Force Acting along a Plane that Passes Through a Structural Member
SHEAR PANEL	A Panel Placed along the Shear Plane to Counteract that Force
SHORT WALLS	The short wall sections of the sides of a dome
SIDES	Erroneous Concept for the Windows or Faces of a System
SIMILAR	Having the Same Shape, but not Necessarily the Same Size
SIZE	Dimension, Extent; Relates to Actual Constructs or Special Cases
SIU-C	Southern Illinois University	Carbondale	IL	USA
SIU-E	Southern Illinois University	Edwardsville	"	"
SKEW POLYGON	A Polygon whose Edges do not Lie in the Same Plane
SKEW SOLID	A Solid Defined by Skew Polygons
SKYLITE	Window positioned in any of the dome panels except a dormer
SLAB	A foundation or main floor formed by directly pouring a concrete pad over a properly prepared piece of ground
SNUB SOLID	A Solid Exploded & the Original Polygons Surrounded by Triangles
SOLID	Same as POLYHEDRON
SOMETHING	An Entity (System) Having Existence in the Real World
SOUTH POLE	See: Glossary/NORTH POLE
SPACEFRAME	The complete independent structural unit formed by the exterior perimeter framing of a typical dome triangle
SPACESHIP EARTH	Coined by RBF to Convey a Sense of a Finite, Whole System Planet
SPECIAL CASE	A Specific Manifestation of a Generalized Concept
SPHERE	Structure Where All Surface Points are Equidistant from Center
SPHERIC	Rhombic Dodecahedron
Spherical Triangle	Curved Area Bounded by 3 Connected Great-Circle Arcs
Spherical Trigonometry	Study of Triangles Formed on the Surfaces of Spheres
SQUARE	Imaginary Construct Consisting of 4 Equal Sides & 4 Right Angles
SQUARING	Redefined as Triangling
SSA	Structural Study Associates
STEADY STATE	Input/Output are Balanced at a Point Below Max Limits of System
STELLATION	To Form a Pyramid on each Face of a Polyhedron
Structural System	Triangulated System
STRUCTURE	A Complex of Events that Interact to Form a Stable Pattern
STRUT	A Compression Element of a Tensegrity Structure
SUNCLIPSE	Accurate Term for the Last Sighting of the Sun in the Evening
SUNRISE	Erroneous Term Based on False Perception of Sun/Earth Relationship
SUNSET	Erroneous Term Based on False Perception of Sun/Earth Relationship
SUNSIGHT	Accurate Term for the First Sighting of the Sun in the Morning
Supplementary Angles	Angles that Add up to 180 Degrees
SURFACE	Element of System Having no Independent Existence Outside the System
SYMMETRY	Correspondence of Congruent Components about a Plane or Axis
Synergetic Advantage	A principle of problem-solving: Advantage accrues by starting with the whole; then moving to the parts
SYNERGETICS	Fuller's Name for Nature's Coordinate System (Geometry)
SYNERGY	Behavior of Whole Systems Not Predictable from Behavior of Parts
SYSTEM	Triangle-Based Structure Dividing Universe into Inside & Outside