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Sedimentation equilibrium
Sedimentation equilibrium is an analytical ultracentrifugation method spun at low speed until sedimentation and back-diffusion balance, giving calibration-free molar mass, association state, and binding affinities in solution.
Sedition
Sedition is conduct or speech intended to incite insurrection against a governing authority. Covers U.S. seditious conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384), the 1798 Sedition Act, Brandenburg v. Ohio limits, and modern use in Hong Kong.
Sedition Act of 1918
The Sedition Act of 1918, Public Law 65-150 (40 Stat. 553), amended the Espionage Act of 1917 to criminalize disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive wartime speech about the U.S. government, Constitution, military, flag, and uniform, with fines up to $10,000 and 20-year sentences; enforced against antiwar dissenters like Eugene Debs, upheld in Abrams v. United States, and repealed in 1920-1921.
Sedjefakare
Sedjefakare Kay Amenemhat was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, reigning in the 18th century BC and known mainly from seals, scarabs, and a graffito at Saqqara.
Sedjemnetjeru
Sedjemnetjeru was an ancient Egyptian artist attested as a draughtsman, literally a writer of outlines, at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.
Sedjes
Sedjes is a putative pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Third Dynasty, known only from the Abydos king list; other lists give Hudjefa or omit the position entirely.
Sedlec Ossuary
Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice Sedlec), the Bone Church near Kutná Hora, Czech Republic: a chapel decorated with about 40,000 human bones, arranged by Santini-Aichel and František Rint (1870), from a medieval plague and famine cemetery.
Sedmice
Sedmice, also known as Šuster, is a trick-taking card game from Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, played by 2 or 4 players, in which a seven beats any card.
Sedna (mythology)
Sedna (also Nuliajuk, Takannaaluk, Sassuma Arnaa) is the Inuit sea goddess and Mother of the Sea mammals, ruling Adlivun; her severed fingers became sea animals, and shamans comb her tangled hair to release game.
Sedna Planitia
Sedna Planitia is a 3,570-km-wide volcanic lowland plain on Venus, centered at 42.7°N, 340.7°E, named for the Inuit sea goddess and mapped by Pioneer Venus, Venera, and Magellan radar.
Sednaya Prison (سجن صيدنايا)
Sednaya Prison (سجن صيدنايا), Syria's notorious military prison 30 km north of Damascus, opened in 1987; Amnesty estimated up to 13,000 secret hangings there from 2011 to 2015 before its liberation on 8 December 2024.
Sednoid
A sednoid is a trans-Neptunian object, named after the first found, Sedna, whose perihelion lies far beyond Neptune; four sednoids were known as of 2025.
Sedo politics
Sedo politics (세도정치, 勢道政治) was a system in 19th-century Joseon Korea where royal in-law families like the Andong Kim clan dictated state affairs for about 60 years.
Sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase
Sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase, EC 3.1.3.37) is a chloroplast enzyme of the Calvin cycle's regenerative phase, hydrolyzing sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphate; overexpression raises photosynthesis and biomass in tobacco, wheat, and Arabidopsis.
Sedōka
Sedōka (旋頭歌, "head-repeating poem") is a classical Japanese waka form of six lines in a 5-7-7-5-7-7 pattern, two repeated katauta halves that flourished in the Nara period.
Sedomigene (NL003, Huasuoling) HGF plasmid
Sedomigene injection (Huasuoling, NL003, Donaperminogene Seltoplasmid) is a naked HGF plasmid gene therapy by Beijing Northland Biotech, approved by NMPA on 28 May 2026 for ischemic limb ulcers in severe lower limb ischemia.
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona: small city in Coconino and Yavapai counties famed for red rock scenery and Oak Creek Canyon; about 9,700 residents, incorporated 1988, named for Sedona Schnebly (1902), with a tourism-dominated economy.
Seduced and Abandoned
Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata) is Pietro Germi's 1964 Italian black-and-white satire, second of his Sicilian trilogy after Divorce Italian Style, starring Stefania Sandrelli and Saro Urzì, on Sicily's reparative-marriage honor code; Cannes 1964 competitor.
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult is a four-part American documentary series directed by Cecilia Peck, released on Starz in 2020, following India Oxenberg's journey through the NXIVM cult and DOS.
Seducing Drake Palma
Seducing Drake Palma (Mission Impossible: Seducing Drake Palma) is a 2025 Philippine Viva One romantic comedy series, 16 episodes, adapting Ariesa Jane Domingo's Wattpad novel; directed by Crisanto B. Aquino, starring Rabin Angeles, Angela Muji, and Dylan Menor, premiered June 15, 2025.
Seduction
Seduction is persuading someone to sexual activity; also a US legal tort and felony (1848–1935 heart balm era), an eighteenth-century literary genre, and the modern pick-up artist industry criticized for weak evidence.
Seduction (group)
Seduction was an American dance-pop and freestyle girl group from New York, assembled by producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole, best known for the 1990 hit "Two to Make It Right."
Seduction of Yusuf
The Seduction of Yusuf is a 1488 miniature painting by Persian master Kamal al-Din Bihzad, made in Herat and showing Zulaykha pursuing Yusuf through her palace.
Sedum
Sedum (stonecrop) is the largest genus of Crassulaceae, about 499 accepted succulent species native from temperate to tropical mountain regions; non-monophyletic, with Hylotelephium, Phedimus, and Petrosedum segregated, and many species using CAM photosynthesis on green roofs.
Sedum acre
Sedum acre (biting stonecrop, goldmoss stonecrop) is a mat-forming succulent Crassulaceae herb native from Greenland and Europe to the Caucasus, type species of Sedum, used on green roofs and naturalized widely.
See (TV series)
See is an Apple TV+ post-apocalyptic drama created by Steven Knight, starring Jason Momoa as Baba Voss in a future where humanity is blind; three seasons, 2019-2022.
See Emily Play
See Emily Play: 1967 Syd Barrett song and Pink Floyd's second UK single, B-side The Scarecrow, recorded with Norman Smith, peaked No. 6 UK, inspired by Emily Young.
See Her Again (太阳星辰 (电视剧))
See Her Again (太阳星辰, Tai Yang Xing Chen) is a 2024 18-episode Hong Kong crime drama directed by Wong Kwok Keung, starring William Chan and Cya Liu as a time-displaced 1993 detective and his daughter, premiered simultaneously on Tencent Video and Netflix.
See How They Run (2022 film)
See How They Run is a 2022 comic murder mystery directed by Tom George, starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan as detectives investigating a backstage killing in 1953 London.
See No Evil (2006 film)
See No Evil is a 2006 American slasher film directed by Gregory Dark, starring wrestler Kane as killer Jacob Goodnight and the first film from WWE Films.