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Seer of Prevorst. Disclosures About the Inner Life of Men and the Projection of a Spiritworld into Ours, The (work by Kerner)
...to 1829 and published his results in Die Seherin von Prevorst. Eröffnungen über das innere Leben der Menschen und über das Hereinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere (1829; The Seer of Prevorst. Disclosures About the Inner Life of Men and the Projection of a Spiritworld into Ours)....
seerfish (fish genus)
...the warm seas of the world. They are elongated with small scales, large mouths and teeth, and three keels on either side of the tail base. There are several species, among them: the barred Spanish mackerel (S. commerson), an Indo-Pacific fish said to weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds); the king mackerel, or kingfish (S. cavalla), a western Atlantic fish about 170 cm long and......
Seers, Eugène (French-Canadian poet)
French Canadian poet and critic who is regarded as the first major literary critic of Quebec....
Sef dynasty (African history)
African trading empire ruled by the Sef (Sayf) dynasty that controlled the area around Lake Chad from the 9th to the 19th century. Its territory at various times included what is now southern Chad, northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria, eastern Niger, and southern Libya....
Sefardi (people)
member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century....
Sefardic Judaism (people)
member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century....
Sefardic language
Romance language spoken by Sefardic Jews in the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey; it is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish, mixed somewhat with Hebrew elemen...
Sefardic script
...500 years of the Common Era. Most of the development in the square Hebrew script occurred between 1000 and 1500 ce. The earliest script to emerge from the Dead Sea writing was the Early Sefardic (Spharadic), with examples dating between 600 and 1200 ce. The Classic Sefardic hand appears between 1100 and 1600 ce. The Ashkenazic style of Hebrew writing ex...
Sefardim (people)
member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century....
Sefer Eldad (work by Eldad)
...His veracity was challenged largely because the ritual prescriptions he described diverged from those of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary. His Hebrew narrative, Sefer Eldad, established his reputation as a philologist whom leading medieval Jewish grammarians and lexicographers quoted as an authority on linguistic difficulties. It appeared in several......
Sefer ha-agadah (Jewish literary collection)
...indefatigable editor and literary organizer, he was a cofounder of the Tel Aviv publishing firm Dvir (with his lifelong associate, the author and editor Y.H. Ravnitzky) and edited Sefer ha-agadah (1907/08–1910/11; The Book of Legends), a collection of traditional Jewish homilies and legends. He also edited the poems of the medieval poet.....
Sefer ha-bahir (Jewish text)
(Hebrew: “Book of Brightness”), largely symbolic commentary on the Old Testament, the basic motif of which is the mystical significance of the shapes and sounds of the Hebrew alphabet. The influence of the Bahir on the development...
Sefer ha-Baḥur [Bokher] (work by Levita)
...the patronage of Gilles of Viterbo, general of the Augustinian religious order and later a cardinal. Encouraged by Gilles to write a treatise on Hebrew grammar, Levita produced Sefer ha-Baḥur [Bokher] (1518; “Book of Baḥur”), which was widely used and went into many editions. About the same time, he published a table of paradigms and an......
Sefer ha-Berit (work by Kimhi)
...various books of the Old Testament, those on Proverbs and Job were published. Those that became lost are known, however, to have had important exegetic worth. Kimhi’s work on Jewish apologetics, Sefer ha-Berit (“Book of the Covenant”), is important for its historical information on the position of the Jews in Provence. He also established himself as a poet of conside...
Sefer ha-emuna ha-rama (work by Ibn Daud)
...on Aristotle’s writings in a systematic fashion. He is probably more esteemed today for his history Sefer ha-kabbala (“Book of Tradition”) than for his major philosophic work, Sefer ha-emuna ha-rama (“Book of Sublime Faith”), extant only in Hebrew and German translations....
“Sefer ha-emunot we-ha-deʿot” (work by Saʿadia ben Joseph)
...certain Aristotelian and Neoplatonic positions. Saʿadia’s main theological work, Kitāb al-amānāt wa al-iʿtiqādāt (Beliefs and Opinions), is modeled on similar Muʿtazilite treatises and on the Muʿtazilite classification of theological subject matter known as the Five Principles...
Sefer ha-galui (work by Kimhi)
...vowels. His comprehensive grammatical text, Sefer ha-zikkaron (“Book of Remembrance”), introduced a classification of verb stems for Hebrew that remains in use. Another work, Sefer ha-galui (“Book of the Demonstration”), dealing with lexicography and questions of exegesis, served as a vehicle for criticizing the work of Jacob ben Meir Tam, the leading.....
“Sefer ha-gevulim” (work by Israeli)
Of his philosophical writings, Kitāb al-ḥudūd (Hebrew: Sefer ha-gevulim, “The Book of Definitions”) is best known. Beginning with a discussion of Aristotle’s four types of inquiry, Israeli goes on to present 56 definitions, including definitions of wisdom, intellect, soul, nature, reason, love, locomotion, and time. Others of his philosophica...
Sefer ha-Halakhot (work by Alfasi)
...to live with her well-to-do family. While there, he became versed in rabbinic studies, including Halakha (Jewish law), and even wrote glosses on a famous compendium of legal discussions, the Sefer ha-Halakhot of Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi. He also engaged in commerce during this period....
Sefer ha-hekkesh ha-yashar (work by Levi ben Gershom)
Influenced by the works of Aristotle and the 12th-century Islāmic philosopher Averroës, Levi wrote Sefer ha-hekkesh ha-yashar (1319; Latin Liber syllogismi recti; “Book of Proper Analogy”), criticizing several arguments of Aristotle; he also wrote commentaries on the works of both philosophers....
Sefer Ha-ikkarim (work by Albo)
Jewish philosopher and theologian of Spain who is noted for his classic work of Jewish dogmatics, Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim (1485; “Book of Principles”)....
“Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim” (work by Albo)
Jewish philosopher and theologian of Spain who is noted for his classic work of Jewish dogmatics, Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim (1485; “Book of Principles”)....
Sefer ha-kabbala (work by Ibn Daud)
also called Rabad I physician and historian who was the first Jewish philosopher to draw on Aristotle’s writings in a systematic fashion. He is probably more esteemed today for his history Sefer ha-kabbala (“Book of Tradition”) than for his major philosophic work, Sefer ha-emuna ha-rama (“Book of Sublime Faith”), extant only in Hebrew and German......
“Sefer ha-Kuzari” (work by Judah ha-Levi)
...cultural sphere. Among his major works are the poems collected in Dīwān, the “Zionide” poems celebrating Zion, and the Sefer ha-Kuzari (“Book of the Khazar”), presenting his philosophy of Judaism in dialogue form....
Sefer ha-maʿalot (work by Ibn Falaquera)
...(“The Beginning of Wisdom”), which reproduces al-Farabi’s Aims of the Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and which was translated into Latin at the end of the 15th century; Sefer ha-maʿalot (“Book of Degrees”), which advocates the Neoplatonic ideal of the contemplative life; a commentary on Maimonides’ Guide under the title ...
Sefer ha-mispar (work by Levi ben Gershom)
In 1321 Levi wrote his first work, Sefer ha-mispar (“Book of the Number”), dealing with arithmetical operations, including extraction of roots. In De sinibus, chordis et arcubus (1342; “On Sines, Chords, and Arcs”) he presented an original derivation of the sine theorem for plane triangles and tables of sines calculated to five decimal places. On the......
Sefer ha-mitzwot (work by Anan ben David)
In 770 Anan wrote the definitive code of his order, the Sefer ha-mitzwot (“Book of Precepts”). Its unifying principle is its rejection of much of the Talmud and of the rabbinate, which based its authority on the Talmud. Only the Bible is held to be valid, but it is interpreted with an unusual mixture of freedom and literalism....
Sefer ha-razim (ancient document)
...to these practices, and there was some contamination from Egyptian, Hellenistic, or Mesopotamian magic. (A curious document in this respect, rich in pagan material, is the Sefer ha-razim, the “Treatise on Mysteries,” which was discovered in 1963.)...
Sefer ha-ruʾah ve-ha-nefesh (work by Israeli)
...of inquiry, Israeli goes on to present 56 definitions, including definitions of wisdom, intellect, soul, nature, reason, love, locomotion, and time. Others of his philosophical works include Sefer ha-ruʾaḥ ve-ha-nefesh (“Treatise on Spirit and Soul”), probably part of a larger exegetical effort, and Kitāb al-jawāhir (“Book of......
Sefer ha-shirim (work by Idelsohn)
Idelsohn’s books include Jewish Music in Its Historical Development (1929); Jewish Liturgy (1932); and Sefer ha-shirim, 2 vol. (1913–22; “Book of Songs”), the first Hebrew songbook published in Palestine....
Sefer ha-shorashim (work by Kimhi)
...Sefer mikhlol (“Book of Completeness”), was originally intended to comprise a grammar and a lexicon of the Hebrew language. The latter, however, appeared as a separate work, Sefer ha-shorashim (“Book of the Roots”). (The grammar, edited and translated by William Chomsky, was published in 1933; 2nd ed. 1952.) His work differed from previous grammars in i...
Sefer ha-temuna (Hebrew work)
(Hebrew: “Book of the Image”), anonymous work in Hebrew that imbues the letters of the Hebrew alphabet with a mystical significance and claims that there are invisible parts of the Torah. The book first appeared in Spain in the 13th century....
Sefer ha-ṭurim (work by Asher)
...(12th century), is a monumental work, original in plan, language, and order; it encompasses all religious subject matter under 14 headings and includes theosophy, theology, and religion. (2) The Sefer ha-ṭurim (“Book of Rows,” or “ Parts”), by Jacob ben Asher (14th century), the son of Asher ben Jehiel, introduced new groupings, dividing subject matter....
Sefer ha-yareaḥ (work by Astruc of Lunel)
...as the collected correspondence is entitled, reveals much of the religious and philosophical conflicts of Judaism in that era. The epithet ha-Yareaḥ is derived from his polemical work Sefer ha-yareaḥ (“The Book of the Moon”), the title of which refers to the town of Lunel (French lune, meaning “moon”). ...
Sefer ha-yashar (work by Tam)
Tam’s major legal work is Sefer ha-yashar (first published in 1811 in Vienna; “Book of the Righteous”). It contains explanations of 30 tractates of the Talmud, as well as responsa (authoritative answers to questions about Jewish law). He also wrote religious poetry, some of which was later incorporated into the Hebrew prayer book....
Sefer ha-zikhronot (work by Levita)
...the imperial army. He went back to Venice, where he employed himself in correcting Hebrew works for a printer, teaching, and completing the work that he considered his masterpiece, Sefer ha-zikhronot (“Book of Memoirs”), a Masoretic, or Hebrew biblical, concordance. Though never published, the manuscript brought him offers of professorships from church......
Sefer ha-zikkaron (work by Kimhi)
...the rest of Europe. His acquaintance with Latin grammar led him to divide the previously acknowledged seven Hebrew vowels into five long and five short vowels. His comprehensive grammatical text, Sefer ha-zikkaron (“Book of Remembrance”), introduced a classification of verb stems for Hebrew that remains in use. Another work, Sefer ha-galui (“Book of the......
Sefer ha-zohar (Jewish literature)
(Hebrew: “Book of Splendour”), 13th-century book, mostly in Aramaic, that is the classic text of esoteric Jewish mysticism, or Kabbala. Though esoteric mysticism was taught by Jews as early as the 1st century ad, the Zohar gave new life and impetus to mystical speculations through the 14th and subsequent cent...
Sefer Ḥasidim (Hebrew religious work)
(Hebrew: “Book of the Pious”), a highly valuable account of the day-to-day religious life of medieval German Jews known as Ḥasidim (“Pious Ones”). The authentic Ḥasid is described in terms of asceticism, humility, serenity, altruism, and strict ethical behaviour. Though the work is nonsystematic, it presents the combined teachings of the three leaders of ...
Sefer meturgeman (work by Levita)
During the last years of his life Levita produced, among other writings, two major works. Sefer meturgeman (1541; “A Translator’s Book”) was the first dictionary of the Targums, or Aramaic books of the Hebrew Bible. His lexicon Tishbi (1542) explained much of the Mishnaic Hebrew language and was a supplement to two important ea...
Sefer mikhlol (work by Kimhi)
...Kimhi learned his father’s teachings under the tutelage of his brother and then began to support himself by teaching children the Talmud, the body of Jewish tradition. His own great work, the Sefer mikhlol (“Book of Completeness”), was originally intended to comprise a grammar and a lexicon of the Hebrew language. The latter, however, appeared as a separate work, ...
Sefer milḥamot Adonai (work by Levi ben Gershom)
...are complex, he presupposed an audience familiar with these commentaries, medieval astronomical literature, and the works of Averroës when he wrote (1317–29) his major work, Sefer milḥamot Adonai (“The Book of the Wars of the Lord”; partial trans. Die Kämpfe Gottes, 2 vol.). Divided into six parts, the work treats exhaustively of the......
Sefer Torah (Judaism)
(Hebrew: “Book of the Law”), in Judaism, the first five books of the Old Testament written in Hebrew by a qualified calligrapher (sofer) on vellum or parchment and enshrined in the ark of the Law (aron ha-qodesh) in synagogu...
Sefer Yetzira (Hebrew literature)
(Hebrew: “Book of Creation”), oldest known Hebrew text on white magic and cosmology; it contends that the cosmos derived from the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and from the 10 divine numbers (sefirot). Taken together, they were said to comprise ...
Seferiadēs, Giōrgios Stylianou (Greek writer)
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963....
Seferis, George (Greek writer)
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963....
Sefīd Rūd (river, Iran)
longest river of northern Iran, rising 920 feet (280 m) in elevation and breaking through the Elburz Mountains in an impressive gorge 23 miles (37 km) long to emerge on the plain of Gīlān, where it forms a delta and flows into the Caspian Sea...
sefira (Judaism)
in the speculations of esoteric Jewish mysticism (Kabbala), any of the 10 emanations, or powers, by which God the Creator was said to become manifest. The concept first appeared in the Sefer Yetzira (“Book of Creation”), as the 10 ideal numbers....
sefirot (Judaism)
in the speculations of esoteric Jewish mysticism (Kabbala), any of the 10 emanations, or powers, by which God the Creator was said to become manifest. The concept first appeared in the Sefer Yetzira (“Book of Creation”), as the 10 ideal numbers....
Sefrioui, Ahmed (Moroccan writer)
Moroccan novelist and short-story writer whose works record the everyday lives of the common people in Fès, Mor....
Sefström, Nils Gabriel (Swedish chemist)
...mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río, who named it erythronium but eventually came to believe it was merely impure chromium. The element was rediscovered (1830) by the Swedish chemist Nils Gabriel Sefström, who named it after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty and youth, a name suggested by the beautiful colours of vanadium’s compounds in solution. The English...
Sefton (metropolitan borough, England, United Kingdom)
metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Merseyside, historic county of Lancashire, England, extending along the Irish Sea coast from the Ribble estuary in the north to the Mersey estuary in the south. It lies immediately north o...
Sefton, Bill (American athlete)
American pole-vaulter who, tied with Bill Sefton, set the world record in 1937 of 4.54 m (14 feet 11 inches). Meadows and Sefton were nicknamed “the Heavenly Twins.”...
séga (dance)
Mauritius is known for the séga, a popular folk dance consisting of suggestive movements of the hips and arms to a rhythmic beat. The dance can be traced back to the 18th century, when it was performed by slaves....
Sega Corporation (Japanese company)
software and hardware company created in the United States—but now based in Japan—that developed computers and electronic game technology. Sega originated in 1940 as Standard Games, a coin-operated game company in Hawaii....
Sega Enterprises (Japanese company)
software and hardware company created in the United States—but now based in Japan—that developed computers and electronic game technology. Sega originated in 1940 as Standard Games, a coin-operated game company in Hawaii....
Sega Genesis (video game console)
...which generated more than $200 million in revenue. Over the next few years, Sega underwent several ownership changes. The company released more consoles—the Sega Master System (1986) and the Sega Genesis (1988)—beginning a serious competition with its main rival, the Nintendo console, for control of the video game market....
Segal, Erich (American educator, author, and screenwriter)
June 16, 1937Brooklyn, N.Y.Jan. 17, 2010London, Eng.American educator, author, and screenwriter who was serving as a professor of classics and comparative literature (1968–72) at Yale University when he published the best-selling novel Love Story (1970), a sentimental tearjerk...
Segal, George (American actor)
...marked Mike Nichols’s film directorial debut—won 5 of the 13 Academy Awards it was nominated for; each of the four main actors in the film—Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis—received Oscar nominations....
Segal, George (American sculptor)
American sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures often situated in environments of mundane furnishings and objects....
Segal, Mosheh Zevi Hirsh (Bible scholar)
...from Its Beginnings to the End of the Second Temple (8 vol., 1937–56) in Hebrew that pursues a path involving a radical revision of current biblical criticism and interpretation. Mosheh Zevi Hirsh Segal (died 1968) dealt with a wide area of biblical and related literature, maintaining the essential Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch (supplemented by later editors who worked...
Segamat (Malaysia)
town, south-central Peninsular (West) Malaysia (Malaya). It lies along the Segamat River and the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore railway. Surrounded by oil-palm and rubber estates, the town is on the central Johor plains and has a small airfield. Granite and limestone quarries are nearby. Pop. (2000 prelim.)...
Segantini, Giovanni (Italian painter)
Italian painter known for his Alpine landscapes and allegorical pictures, which blended Symbolist content with the technique of Neo-Impressionism....
Segaon (India)
town, eastern Maharashtra state, western India. Originally called Segaon, the village was given its present name by Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader. In 1936 he left his ashram (hermitage) on the Sabarmati River, near Ahmadabad, and settled at Sevagram. There he founded another ashram and directed the inde...
Segar, Elzie Crisler (American cartoonist)
American cartoonist and creator of “Popeye,” a comic strip in which the main character, a roughhewn sailor who gained immense strength from eating spinach, became an international folk hero....
Segarelli, Gerard (Italian religious leader)
About 1260 a religious sect known as the Apostolic Brethren was founded at Parma, Italy, by Gerard Segarelli, an uncultured workman, to restore what he considered the apostolic way of life. His emphasis on repentance and poverty reflected ideas propagated by Joachim of Fiore, a 12th-century mystic. In 1286 Pope Honorius IV ordered the eccentric sect to conform to an approved rule of life, and......
Segauli, Treaty of (1816, India)
...with the Gurkhas of the northern kingdom of Nepal, who inflicted a series of defeats on a Bengal army unprepared for mountain warfare. Each side earned the respect of the other. The resulting Treaty of Segauli (1816) gave the British the tract of hill country where Shimla (Simla), the site of the future summer capital of British India, was situated, and it settled relations between Nepal......
Segebro (Sweden)
...Swedish geologists, who have developed a dependable system of geochronology that verifies the dates of the thaw. The first traces of human life in Sweden, dating from about 9000 bc, were found at Segebro outside Malmö in the extreme southern reaches of Sweden. Finds from the peat at Ageröd in Skåne dated to 6500 bc reveal a typical food-gathering...
Segen Jacobs, Der (work by Kohler)
...Judaism that takes a broad, liberal attitude toward ritual and custom. Kohler’s quest for the reconciliation of traditional faith with modern knowledge is reflected in his doctoral dissertation, Der Segen Jacobs (1867; “Jacob’s Blessing”), on the story of Jacob found in chapter 49 of the Book of Genesis. The radicalism of this thesis, one of the earliest examp...
Seger, Bob (American singer, songwriter, and guitarist)
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who achieved great popularity in the 1970s and ’80s....
Seger, Robert Clark (American singer, songwriter, and guitarist)
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who achieved great popularity in the 1970s and ’80s....
Segers, Hercules Pietersz (Dutch artist)
Dutch painter and etcher of stark, fantastic landscapes....
Segesta (ancient city, Italy)
ancient city of Sicily, located on Monte Barbaro about 2 miles (3 km) northwest of modern Calatafimi. It was the chief city of the Elymi, a people for whom Thucydides claimed a Trojan origin; they are archaeologically indistinguishable in the Early Iron Age (c. 1000–c. 500 bc...
Segesvár (Romania)
town, Mureș județ (county), central Romania. Situated in the historic region of Transylvania, it is 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Sibiu city and 110 miles (175 km) northwest of Bucharest. The town circles a hill, on the summit of which stands a citadel with a ring of walls, ...
Seghers, Anna (German author)
...America, as was Thomas Mann’s pathbreaking novel on the genesis of Nazism and its relation to the aesthetic, Doktor Faustus (1947; Doctor Faustus). Anna Seghers’s novel Das siebte Kreuz (1942; The Seventh Cross) depicts the escape of seven prisoners, only one of whom survives, from ...
Seghers, Charles Jean (North American bishop)
Roman Catholic missionary whose work in northwestern North America earned him the title Apostle of Alaska....
Seghers, Hercules Pietersz (Dutch artist)
Dutch painter and etcher of stark, fantastic landscapes....
Seghers, Herkules Pieterszoon (Dutch artist)
Dutch painter and etcher of stark, fantastic landscapes....
segment (computer memory)
...large block of contiguous memory space (perhaps even larger than real memory), when in actuality most of their work is on auxiliary storage (disk). Fixed-size blocks (pages) or variable-size blocks (segments) of the job are read into main memory as needed. Questions such as how much actual main memory space to allocate to users and which page should be returned to disk (“swapped......
segmental (linguistics)
Phonemes of the kind referred to so far are segmental; they are realized by consonantal or vocalic (vowel) segments of words, and they can be said to occur in a certain order relative to one another. For example, in the phonemic representation of the word “bit,” the phoneme /b/ precedes /i/, which precedes /t/. But nonsegmental, or suprasegmental, aspects of the phonemic realization....
segmental arch (architecture)
...that this form first acquired its religious connotations. Medieval Europe made great use of the pointed arch, which constituted a basic element in Gothic architecture. In the late Middle Ages the segmental arch was introduced. This form and the elliptical arch had great value in bridge engineering because they permitted mutual support by a row of arches, carrying the lateral thrust to the......
segmental dystonia (pathology)
...writing is attempted (writer’s cramp). Another means of classification is the extent of muscle involvement: focal, affecting only one muscle group, such as the vocal cords (e.g., spastic dysphonia); segmental, involving two adjacent muscle groups, such as the neck muscles (e.g., spastic torticollis); or general, affecting the entire body....
segmentation (zoology)
in zoology, the condition of being constructed of a linear series of repeating parts, each being a metamere (body segment, or somite) and each being formed in sequence in the embryo, from anterior to posterior. All members of three large animal phyla are metameric: Annelida, Arthropoda, and Chordata. The first two exhibit conspicuous segmentation in the adult. Among the chordate...
segmentation (linguistics)
in linguistics, study of the internal construction of words. Languages vary widely in the degree to which words can be analyzed into word elements, or morphemes. In English there are numerous examples, such as “replacement,” which is composed of re-, “place,” and -ment, and “walked,” from the elements “walk” ...
segmentation (computer memory)
...large block of contiguous memory space (perhaps even larger than real memory), when in actuality most of their work is on auxiliary storage (disk). Fixed-size blocks (pages) or variable-size blocks (segments) of the job are read into main memory as needed. Questions such as how much actual main memory space to allocate to users and which page should be returned to disk (“swapped......
segmented spider (spider suborder)
...less than 3 cm long; live in closed silk tubes partly below ground; bite prey through tube and pull it in.Suborder Mesothelae (segmented spiders)83 species in 1 family, Liphistiidae, found from Japan to Southeast Asia. Inhabit trapdoor tubes in ground; remnants of abdominal segmentati...
segmented worm (invertebrate)
any member of a phylum of invertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity (or coelom), movable bristles (or setae), and a body divided into segments by transverse rings, or annulations, from which they take their name. The coelom is reduced in leeches, and setae are lacking a ...
Segna di Buonaventura (Italian painter)
...children. At least two of his children, Galgano and Giorgio, were painters, but nothing is known about their work or their merits. The identity of one of his direct followers is known, his nephew Segna di Buonaventura....
Segnatura, Stanza della (room, Vatican Palace, Italy)
In 1508 Sodoma was invited to Rome by the celebrated Sienese banker Agostino Chigi and was employed by Pope Julius II in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. Although Raphael worked on the same ceiling in 1509, he left some of Sodoma’s ceiling decoration, including mythological figures and Roman military scenes, intact. About 1510 Sodoma again utilized mythological figures for ceiling...
Segner, János-András (Hungarian physicist and mathematician)
German physicist and mathematician who in 1751 introduced the concept of the surface tension of liquids, likening it to a stretched membrane. His view that minute and imperceptible attractive forces maintain surface tension laid the foundation for the subsequent development of surface tension theory....
Segner, Johann Andreas von (Hungarian physicist and mathematician)
German physicist and mathematician who in 1751 introduced the concept of the surface tension of liquids, likening it to a stretched membrane. His view that minute and imperceptible attractive forces maintain surface tension laid the foundation for the subsequent development of surface tension theory....
Segni, Antonio (president of Italy)
Italian statesman, twice premier (1955–57, 1959–60), and fourth president (1962–64) of Italy....
Segnosauria (dinosaur infraorder)
...thought to belong to Protoceratops reveal that the parentage was misplaced and that oviraptorids, like their bird relatives, apparently tended their young. Therizinosaurids, or segnosaurs, were medium-size Asian theropods known only from a few examples. The mouth had bladelike teeth at the back but apparently no teeth at the front. The pelvis differed markedly from the......
Segnosaurus (dinosaur genus)
...thought to belong to Protoceratops reveal that the parentage was misplaced and that oviraptorids, like their bird relatives, apparently tended their young. Therizinosaurids, or segnosaurs, were medium-size Asian theropods known only from a few examples. The mouth had bladelike teeth at the back but apparently no teeth at the front. The pelvis differed markedly from the.........
Sego (missile)
After the war French engineers adapted the German technology and developed the SS-10/SS-11 family of missiles. The SS-11 was adopted by the United States as an interim helicopter-fired antitank missile pending the development of the TOW (for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided) missile. Because it was designed for greater range and hitting power, TOW was mounted primarily on vehicles......
sego lily (plant)
Several species are in cultivation, among them the sego lily (Calochortus nuttallii), native to dry soil from South Dakota to Washington and south to Oregon and California. Its white flowers are variously marked with yellow, purple, and lilac. The edible roots of the sego lily were used for food by the early Mormon settlers in the Salt Lake Valley....
segoni-kun (African mask)
mask derived from the antelope form, worn by a member of the Tyiwara society of the Bambara tribe in West Africa. Believed to have great power over agricultural fertility, the spirit of the tyi-wara (work animal) was thought to be embodied in the stylized segoni-kun masks, which were worn by ...
Ségou (African kingdom)
...his own homeland and the French trading posts. But he was repulsed by the French, and after 1859 he sought to join with the Fulani of Macina in the conquest of the more powerful Bambara kingdom of Segu. The Macina Fulani were opposed to the idea of a Tijānī power advancing into their own Qādirī zone in the Niger valley and even gave some aid to Segu. After ʿUm...
Ségou (Mali)
town, south-central Mali, western Africa. It extends for more than 4 miles (6 km) along the right bank of the Niger River. A historic town, it was the first capital of the Bambara kingdom, which flourished in the 1...
Segovia (Spain)
city, capital of Segovia provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Castile-León, Spain, northwest of Madrid. The site of the expansive medieval Alcázar palace and the famous Segovia ...