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Seasoning
Seasoning: adding salt, herbs, spices, or blends to food to improve taste; covers FDA and ESA definitions, herb-versus-spice distinctions, salt trade history, and sodium-reduction uses.
Seasons in the Abyss
Seasons in the Abyss is Slayer's fifth studio album, released October 9, 1990 on Def American Recordings; produced by Rick Rubin and Andy Wallace, it expands South of Heaven's moodier direction with tracks such as War Ensemble and Dead Skin Mask.
Seasons in the Sun
Seasons in the Sun: Terry Jacks's 1974 worldwide number-one hit, an English adaptation by Rod McKuen of Jacques Brel's 1961 "Le Moribond," also a 1999 Westlife UK Christmas number one.
Seasons of Blossom
Seasons of Blossom (청춘 블라썸) is a 2020 Naver webtoon by Hongduck and NEMONE, 130 chapters in four seasonal arcs, adapted into a 2022 Wavve drama with Seo Ji Hoon and So Ju Yeon and a 2026 animation.
Seasons of Love
"Seasons of Love" is the act-two opening anthem of Jonathan Larson's 1996 musical Rent, counting 525,600 minutes in a year; Larson's handwritten math sketches for it are held in the Library of Congress.
Seaspiracy
Seaspiracy, 2021 Netflix documentary by Ali Tabrizi and Kip Andersen's Cowspiracy team, attacking sustainable-fishing claims; hit Netflix top 10 in 32 countries but was heavily criticized by fisheries scientists over disputed statistics.
Seasteading
Seasteading is the concept of building permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, outside any government's territory, promoted since 2008 by the Seasteading Institute, founded by Patri Friedman and Peter Thiel.
SEAT
SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo) is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded in 1950, headquartered at Martorell near Barcelona and owned by the Volkswagen Group since 1986.
Seat allocation and apportionment formulas
Seat allocation and apportionment formulas are mathematical rules that convert votes or populations into whole legislative seats, including divisor methods like D'Hondt and largest remainder.
Seat belt
A seat belt, also called a safety belt, is a vehicle restraint that reduces occupants' risk of fatal injury, most effectively in the three-point design Volvo introduced in 1959.
Seat belt laws in the United States
Seat belt laws in the United States are state laws requiring occupants to buckle up, enforced as primary or secondary laws; every state except New Hampshire has one.
Seat belt legislation
Seat belt legislation mandates belt use by vehicle occupants and defines enforcement type. Primary laws allow stops solely for non-use; secondary laws require another violation first. First enacted in Victoria, Australia, 1970.
Seat configurations of Airbus A380
The seat configurations of the Airbus A380 are the cabin layouts operators choose for the world's only full-length double-deck passenger aircraft, certified for up to 853 seats and typically flown with 400 to 550.
SEAT Ibiza
The SEAT Ibiza is a B-segment supermini built by Spanish manufacturer SEAT since 1984, with over six million sold across five generations, including the fifth-generation car on the Volkswagen MQB-A0 platform since 2017.
SEAT León
The SEAT León is a C-segment small family car built by Spanish manufacturer SEAT at its Martorell plant near Barcelona since 1999, selling over 2.2 million worldwide.
SEAT Toledo
SEAT Toledo is a small family car produced by the Spanish manufacturer SEAT between 1991 and 2019. It was the first model to feature Volkswagen Group technology.
Seat tube angle
The seat tube angle is the angle between the horizontal and a line through the bicycle's seat tube, determining saddle position relative to the pedals.
Seatbelt pretensioner
A seatbelt pretensioner is a device that instantly retracts the seat belt at the start of a crash to remove slack and hold the occupant in place.
Seated Iron Bhaisajyaguru of Janggoksa
The Seated Iron Bhaisajyaguru of Janggoksa is a cast-iron Medicine Buddha statue at Janggoksa Temple in Cheongyang, South Korea, made in the early 10th century.
Seated Miroku of Kōryū-ji
The Seated Miroku of Kōryū-ji (広隆寺弥勒菩薩半跏像) is a 7th-century wooden statue of the bodhisattva Maitreya in pensive pose, kept at Kōryū-ji temple in Kyoto and carved from a single piece of red pine.
Seated Muchaku
Seated Muchaku, despite its name a standing statue of the bodhisattva Mujaku (Asanga), was carved by Unkei around 1212 and kept at Kofuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan.
Seated Scribe
The Seated Scribe, also known as the Squatting Scribe, is a painted limestone statue of an Egyptian scribe in the Louvre, found at Saqqara in 1850.
SeatGeek Stadium
SeatGeek Stadium, Bridgeview, Illinois soccer stadium opened 2006 as Toyota Park; Chicago Fire home 2006-2019, later Red Stars and Hounds; renamed SeatGeek Stadium in 2018.
Seating capacity
Seating capacity, also called seat or spectator capacity, is the number of people a vehicle is designed to carry, including the driver, printed on the tire and loading placard.
Seaton
Seaton is a coastal town in East Devon, England, on the Axe estuary, known for its Roman settlement at Honeyditches and a 22,000-coin hoard found in 2014.
Seatown Gaming Center
Seatown Gaming Center, a casino and gaming venue at 8459 S 212th St in Kent, King County, Washington (47.41149 N, 122.22662 W), near SeaTac airport and the accesso ShoWare Center.
Seatrekking
Seatrekking is a niche outdoor sport of multi-day coastal travel by swimming, snorkeling, freediving and hiking, towing an inflated waterproof bag, bivouacking ashore; distinct from SeaTrek sailing cruises and Sea TREK helmet diving.
Seatrium
Seatrium is a Singapore engineering company for the offshore, marine, and energy sectors, formed in 2023 from the merger of Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore & Marine.
Seats-to-votes ratio
Seats-to-votes ratio: a party's seat share divided by its vote share (advantage ratio, representation ratio), the relative per-party measure of electoral disproportionality, basis of the Sainte-Laguë index and Taagepera's proportionality profiles, contrasted with difference-based Gallagher and Loosemore-Hanby indices.
Seattle
Seattle, largest city in Washington State (pop. est. 784,777, 2025), lies between Puget Sound and Lake Washington on Duwamish and Suquamish land; incorporated 1869, rebuilt after the 1889 Great Fire, reshaped by regrades and annexations.