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Seiko Iseki
Seiko Iseki (韦晴光, Wei Qingguang), born 1962 in Nanning, China, is a table tennis player who won 1988 Olympic men's doubles gold for China, became a Japanese citizen in 1997, and competed for Japan at Sydney 2000.
Seiko Matsuda (松田聖子)
Seiko Matsuda (松田聖子), born 1962, Japanese singer and actress from Fukuoka who debuted in 1980 with "裸足の季節"; 24 consecutive chart-topping singles, 1996 million seller "あなたに逢いたくて～Missing You～", first jazz album on Verve, and Budokan record holder.
Seiko Oomori
Seiko Oomori (大森靖子) is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Ehime Prefecture, closely identified with Japan's anti-idol current, who made her major debut on Avex Trax in 2014.
Seiland
Seiland (Northern Sámi: Sievju) is a rocky Norwegian island in Finnmark, southwest of Hammerfest, with an area of 584 km² that makes it the seventh-largest island on the Norwegian mainland.
Seimas
The Seimas is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania, a 141-member legislature elected for four-year terms in mixed direct elections; its current form dates to independence's 1990 restoration.
Seimeni
Seimeni: Roman fort and walled civil settlement on a 60 ha Danube plateau in Constanța County, Romania, six Roman miles from Axiopolis, known from milestones of AD 160 and 200 and excavated only briefly in 1924.
Seimone Augustus
Seimone Augustus, American basketball player and coach, four-time WNBA champion with the Minnesota Lynx, 2011 Finals MVP, three-time Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012, 2016), Naismith Hall of Fame class of 2024, later LSU assistant coach.
Seine
The Seine is the river of northern France rising on the Langres plateau and flowing through Paris to the English Channel; its 75,000 km² basin, tributaries Yonne, Marne, and Oise, water-quality history, and the 2024–2025 swimmability cleanup distinguish it.
Seine fishing
Seine fishing: encircling or dragging curtain-like nets to catch fish. Purse seine, beach seine, Danish seine, lampara; purse seines take about a third of world marine landings and two thirds of tropical tuna; FADs, bycatch, and RFMO rules.
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne (department 77), a French department in Île-de-France created 4 March 1790, named for the Seine and Marne rivers; prefecture Melun, 5,915 km², 1,468,108 inhabitants (2023), 507 communes, president Jean-François Parigi.
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime (76), formerly Seine-Inférieure until the 1955 renaming, is Normandy's most populous French department: 1,260,964 inhabitants in 2023, 6,278 km², prefecture Rouen, ports of Le Havre and Rouen, first in French flax growing.
Seine-Saint-Denis
Seine-Saint-Denis, department 93 of Île-de-France created in 1968 with chef-lieu Bobigny: 1.7 million inhabitants, densest in the region, youngest and poorest in hexagonal France, service-based economy, Grand Paris Express hub.
Seinen manga (青年漫画)
Seinen manga (青年漫画) is the Japanese publishing demographic of comics serialized in magazines for adult men, roughly 18-40, defined by magazine rather than content; distinct from shōnen, josei, and adult (pornographic) manga.
Seinfeld
Seinfeld (NBC, 1989–1998), co-created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, is a nine-season, 180-episode sitcom about four selfish New Yorkers, famous as "a show about nothing" and for its "no hugging, no learning" rule.
Seino Holdings
Seino Holdings is a Japanese logistics holding company headquartered in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, whose core subsidiary Seino Transportation runs one of Japan's largest consolidated small-freight delivery networks.
Seinosuke Toda
Seinosuke Toda (戸田 誠之助) is a Japanese theoretical computer scientist at Nihon University who proved Toda's theorem in 1989, showing the polynomial hierarchy reduces to counting.
Seiobo There Below
Seiobo There Below, also known as Seiobo járt odalent, is a 2008 novel by László Krasznahorkai. It features seventeen stories numbered by the Fibonacci sequence.
SEIR model
The SEIR model, or SEIR epidemic model, is an epidemiological model dividing a population into susceptible, exposed, infectious, and recovered classes to simulate disease spread.
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (精霊幻想記)
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (精霊幻想記) is a Japanese isekai fantasy series by Yuri Kitayama, begun as a web novel in 2014, about an orphan who gains a Japanese student's memories, adapted into manga and anime.
Seiren
Seiren (セイレン) is a 2017 original romance anime TV series, 12 episodes, by Kisai Takayama and director Tomoki Kobayashi, animated by Studio Gokumi/AXsiZ, set in Amagami's Teruhi Higashi High School with three four-episode heroine arcs.
Seis Manos
Seis Manos (Six Hands) is a 2019 Netflix adult anime series by Brad Graeber and Alvaro Rodriguez, made by Powerhouse Animation and VIZ Media: kung fu orphans in 1970s Mexico avenge their master against occult crime lord El Balde (Danny Trejo), eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
Seishi Ogawa
Seishi Ogawa (小川誠司) is a Japanese hematologist and oncologist, professor of pathology and tumor biology at Kyoto University since 2013, known for sequencing blood disorders.
Seismic analysis
Seismic analysis is the structural engineering practice of computing how a building responds to earthquake ground motion, using methods such as equivalent lateral force and response spectrum analysis.
Seismic anisotropy
Seismic anisotropy is the dependence of seismic wave speeds on propagation direction, observed from the crust to the inner core and used to image mantle flow.
Seismic attribute analysis
Seismic attribute analysis is a geophysics method that extracts quantitative measures from seismic reflection data to characterize subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and fluid content, revealing faults without hand picking.
Seismic attributes
A seismic attribute is a quantity extracted or derived from seismic data, such as amplitude or frequency, analyzed to enhance subtle information and improve geological interpretation.
Seismic facies
A seismic facies is the character of a group of seismic reflections, defined by amplitude, continuity, and configuration. Interpreters use seismic facies units to infer depositional environments and lithology.
Seismic facies analysis
Seismic facies analysis is a geophysical interpretation method that classifies groups of seismic reflections into mappable facies units, inferring depositional environments, lithofacies, and reservoir properties of the subsurface.
Seismic gap
A seismic gap is an active plate boundary segment with a history of large earthquakes that has stayed quiet long enough to be considered likely to rupture.
Seismic interferometry
Seismic interferometry, also known as noise interferometry, is a geophysical method that estimates the Green's function between two receivers by cross-correlating their recordings, introduced to seismology by Jon Claerbout.