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Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, published by Columbia University Press
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia contains entries on people, places, events, historical facts and terms, with bibliographies for further reading.
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semiconductor (in electronics, electricity)
semiotics (branch of linguistics)
senate, Roman (government, ancient Rome)
senility (in psychology, medicine)
senna (plant)
senryu (poetry, Japan)
sensationalism (in philosophy)
sense (in anatomy, biology)
sentence (in law)
sepal (part of plant)
separation (in law)
separatists (church, Protestantism, England)
separator, cream (machine, food)
septic tank (container)
septicemia (disease)
sequence (in mathematics)
sequoia (tree)
serenade (style)
serf (in sociology, business)
serial music (in music)
series (in mathematics)
serine (in biology, chemistry)
serjeanty (system, England)
serotonin (in biology, chemistry)
serpent (reptile)
serpentine (mineral)
sertão (geographical area, Brazil)
serum sickness (disease)
serval (mammal, carnivore)
servomechanism (mechanical device)
sesame (herb, plant)
set (in mathematics)
settlement house (in sociology)
sewerage (system)
sewing machine (machine)
sex (in biology)
sex therapy (in psychology)
sextant (instrument)
shad (fish)
shadbush (plant)
shaduf (mechanical device, construction)
shaft sinking (technique)
shale (in geology)
shaman (in religion, medicine)
shamrock (plant)
shape memory (in metallurgy)
sharecropping (system, United States)