seaplane, any of a class of aircraft that can land, float, and take off on water. Seaplanes with boatlike hulls are also known as flying boats, those with separate pontoons or floats as floatplanes. The first practical seaplanes were built and flown in the United States by Glenn H. Curtiss, in 1911

Boston: Transportation: There a newly created Seaport District featured a large convention centre, an international trade centre, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and a series of hotels, restaurants, and residential buildings.

earthquake: Seiches: This phenomenon is called a seaquake.

Nicolas Malebranche: (1674–75; Search After Truth). Criticism of its theology by others led him to amplify his views in Traité de la nature et de la grâce (1680; Treatise of Nature and Grace). His Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion (1688; “Dialogues on Metaphysics and on…

information processing: Information searching and retrieval: State-of-the-art approaches to retrieving information employ two generic techniques: (1) matching words in the query against the database index (key-word searching) and (2) traversing the database with the aid of hypertext or hypermedia links.

search and seizure, practices engaged in by law enforcement officers in order to gain sufficient evidence to ensure the arrest and conviction of an offender. The latitude allowed police and other law enforcement agents in carrying out searches and seizures varies considerably from country to

search engine, computer program to find answers to queries in a collection of information, which might be a library catalog or a database but is most commonly the World Wide Web. A Web search engine produces a list of “pages”—computer files listed on the Web—that contain or relate to the terms in a

search engine optimization (SEO), practice of increasing both the quality and quantity of “organic” (unpaid) traffic to a website by improving its ranking in the indexes of search engines. Search engines use “bots” (data-collecting programs) to hunt the Web for pages. Information about these pages

SETI, ongoing effort to seek intelligent extraterrestrial life. SETI focuses on receiving and analyzing signals from space, particularly in the radio and visible-light regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, looking for nonrandom patterns likely to have been sent either deliberately or

Sam Rockwell: …Somebody to Love (1994), and The Search for One-Eye Jimmy (1994). However, it was his leading role as an eccentric free spirit in Box of Moonlight (1996) that first gained him widespread attention. He later had starring roles in such independent films as Lawn Dogs (1997) and Safe Men (1998),…

Lily Tomlin: …in the one-woman Broadway show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985–86), for which she received a Tony for best actress. The 1991 film adaptation, however, was largely ignored.

Umberto Eco: …perfetta nella cultura europea (1993; The Search for the Perfect Language) and Kant e l’ornitorinco (1997; Kant and the Platypus). He edited the illustrated companion volumes Storia della bellezza (2004; History of Beauty) and Storia della bruttezza (2007; On Ugliness), and he wrote another pictorial book, Vertigine della lista (2009;…

Kevin Kline: Education and early roles: …part on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Kline first appeared on Broadway in 1973. His 1978 performance in the musical comedy On the Twentieth Century earned him a Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical. He won a second Tony Award (for best lead actor in a…

coloration: Coloration changes in populations: The phenomenon—known as a perceptual set or a search image—is exemplified by the predator of the European snail Cepaea. Predators encounter one morph and form a search image; they continue to hunt for that one form until its increasing rarity causes the predator to hunt randomly, encounter a different…

Peter A. Diamond: …their analysis of markets with search frictions.” The theoretical framework collectively developed by the three men—which describes the search activity of the unemployed, the methods by which firms recruit and formulate wages, and the effects of economic policies and regulation—became widely used in labour market analysis.

Alia Shawkat: Career: …in the dark comedy series Search Party, which follows the adventures of four friends searching for a former college classmate who has gone missing. In Time magazine’s review of the fifth season of Search Party, critic Judy Berman wrote that Shawkat’s portrayal of Sief “embodied the aimlessness of grads who’d…

operations research: Search problems: Search problems involve finding the best way to obtain information needed for a decision. Though every problem contains a search problem in one sense, situations exist in which search itself is the essential process; for example, in auditing accounts, inspection and quality control…

Annette Bening: Career: …The Face of Love (2013), The Search (2014), Danny Collins (2015), and 20th Century Women (2016). She also appeared in Rules Don’t Apply (2016), written and directed by Beatty, and played an aging Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017). In 2018 she starred in a film…

Fred Zinnemann: Films of the late 1930s and 1940s: Zinnemann’s next project, The Search (1948), was considerably more prestigious. The first film shot in Germany following the conclusion of World War II, it was the moving story of an American soldier (played by Montgomery Clift, in his second film) stationed in Berlin who tries to adopt a…

ground beetle: The searcher, or caterpillar hunter (Calosoma scrutator), is a common, brightly coloured North American ground beetle about 35 mm (1.5 inches) long. Its green or violet wings are edged in red, and its body has violet-blue, gold, and green markings. This and related species of ground beetles are…

The Searchers, American western film, released in 1956, that is widely considered director John Ford’s masterpiece. It features John Wayne in one of his most-notable performances, portraying perhaps the most morally ambiguous character of his career. Ethan Edwards (played by Wayne) is a mysterious

British Invasion: …exuberant male quartets such as the Searchers, the Fourmost, and Gerry and the Pacemakers—plus the quintet Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas—launched “Merseybeat,” so named for the estuary that runs alongside Liverpool. The Beatles first reached the British record charts in late 1962 (shortly after the Tornados’ “Telstar,” an instrumental…

the Coasters: …directed at teenage listeners: “Searchin’ ” and “Young Blood” (both 1957), “Yakety Yak” (1958), and “Charlie Brown” and “Poison Ivy” (both 1959). The Coasters alternated lead singers and featured clever arrangements, including amusing bass replies and tenor saxophone solos by King Curtis, who played a crucial role in creating…

information processing: Information searching and retrieval: State-of-the-art approaches to retrieving information employ two generic techniques: (1) matching words in the query against the database index (key-word searching) and (2) traversing the database with the aid of hypertext or hypermedia links.

Laurence Fishburne: Film roles: … (1991), Deep Cover (1992), and Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993). His portrayal of musician Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. In 1995 he became the first African American to play Shakespeare’s Othello in a major film.…

Anne Tyler: …of Celestial Navigation (1974) and Searching for Caleb (1975) that Tyler came to nationwide attention.

Kate Grenville: …wrote such nonfiction books as Searching for the Secret River (2006) and One Life: My Mother’s Story (2015).

Montgomery Clift: …Teeth (1942), and Lillian Hellman’s The Searching Wind (1944). He worked with, among others, actor Alfred Lunt and director Robert Lewis (both of whom served as mentors) and became known for the intelligence and dedication he brought to his work.

searchlight, high-intensity electric light with a reflector shaped to concentrate the beam, used to illuminate or search for distant objects or as a beacon. Carbon arc lamps have been used from about 1870 and from about 1910 rare-earth fluorides or oxides have been added to the carbon to create

Searcy, city, seat (1837) of White county, east-central Arkansas, U.S., near the Little Red River, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Little Rock. It originated as White Sulphur Springs, a spa popular in the 19th century until the springs ran dry. Incorporated in 1835, it was renamed for Richard Searcy,

John Searle is an American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of language—especially speech act theory—and the philosophy of mind. He also made significant contributions to epistemology, ontology, the philosophy of social institutions, and the study of practical reason. He viewed

Ronald Searle was a British graphic satirist, best known for his cartoons of the girls at an imaginary boarding school he called St. Trinian’s. Searle was educated at the Cambridge School of Art and published his first humorous work in the late 1930s. During World War II he served with the Royal

Ronald Searle was a British graphic satirist, best known for his cartoons of the girls at an imaginary boarding school he called St. Trinian’s. Searle was educated at the Cambridge School of Art and published his first humorous work in the late 1930s. During World War II he served with the Royal

Searles Lake, playa in San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Lying to the west of the southern edge of Death Valley National Park, it formed part of a Pleistocene drainage network linking a number of now-arid basins. Certain minerals constituting the playa’s evaporites are relatively

Sears, American retailer of general merchandise, tools, home appliances, clothing, and automotive parts and services. It is a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation, which, following a bankruptcy auction, was purchased by the hedge fund ESL Investments in 2019. In 1886 Richard W. Sears founded

Willis Tower, skyscraper in Chicago, located at 233 South Wacker Drive, that was the world’s tallest building until 1996. That year it was surpassed by the Petronas Twin Towers (1,483 feet [452 meters] tall), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sears Tower, as the building was originally called, opened to

Atari console, video game console released in 1977 by the North American game manufacturer Atari, Inc. Using a cartridge-based system that allowed users to play a variety of video games, the Atari console marked the beginning of a new era in home gaming systems. Developed by Atari cofounder Nolan

Isaac Sears was a patriot leader in New York City before the American Revolution, who earned the nickname “King Sears” by virtue of his prominent role in inciting and commanding anti-British demonstrations. A merchant whose shipping activities included privateering, Sears first exhibited his

Richard Dudley Sears was the first American men’s singles champion in lawn tennis (1881) and winner of that title for each of the six following years. His record has never been equaled by any other amateur player. Sears also won the U.S. men’s doubles championship for six straight years (1882–84

Richard W. Sears was an American merchant who developed his mail-order jewelry business into the huge retail company Sears, Roebuck. Sears’s father had been wealthy but lost his fortune in speculation. After his death the young Sears, age 17, went to work for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway

Richard W. Sears was an American merchant who developed his mail-order jewelry business into the huge retail company Sears, Roebuck. Sears’s father had been wealthy but lost his fortune in speculation. After his death the young Sears, age 17, went to work for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway

frustration-aggression hypothesis: Background and assumptions: Mowrer, and Robert Sears—in an important monograph, Frustration and Aggression (1939), in which they integrated ideas and findings from several disciplines, especially sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Their work was notable for its eclectic use of psychoanalysis, behaviourism, and Marxism. It became

Sears, American retailer of general merchandise, tools, home appliances, clothing, and automotive parts and services. It is a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation, which, following a bankruptcy auction, was purchased by the hedge fund ESL Investments in 2019. In 1886 Richard W. Sears founded

William Le Baron Jenney: …of Montgomery Ward); and the second Leiter Building (1889–90), which became Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s Loop store.

high seas: …subjected to national sovereignty (freedom of the seas) was proposed by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius as early as 1609. It did not become an accepted principle of international law, however, until the 19th century. Freedom of the seas was ideologically connected with other 19th-century freedoms, particularly laissez-faire economic…

Seasat, experimental U.S. ocean surveillance satellite launched June 26, 1978. During its 99 days of operation, Seasat orbited the Earth 14 times daily. Instruments of the unmanned spacecraft, engineered to penetrate cloud cover, provided data on a wide array of oceanographic conditions and

Winslow Homer: The move to Prouts Neck: …to America in 1883, the sea became the dominant theme in his work. He moved to Prouts Neck, a fishing village on the bleak, desolate coast of Maine. He traveled extensively but always returned to his Prouts Neck studio to convert his sketches into major paintings. Solitude became for Homer…

Seascape, drama in two acts by Edward Albee, produced and published in 1975; it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama that year. The play presents Nancy and Charlie, a married couple. Picnicking by the ocean one day, they meet Leslie and Sarah, middle-aged giant lizards from beneath the sea who want to

seashell, hard exoskeleton of marine mollusks such as snails, bivalves, and chitons that serves to protect and support their bodies. It is composed largely of calcium carbonate secreted by the mantle, a skinlike tissue in the mollusk’s body wall. Seashells are usually made up of several layers of

bindweed: Seashore false bindweed (Calystegia soldanella), with fleshy kidney-shaped leaves and deep pink 5-cm blooms, creeps along European seaside sand and gravel.

motion sickness, sickness induced by motion and characterized by nausea. The term motion sickness was proposed by J.A. Irwin in 1881 to provide a general designation for such similar syndromes as seasickness, train sickness, car sickness, and airsickness. The term, though imprecise for scientific

Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: …with their revolutionary scheme for Seaside (begun 1980, completed 1983), a resort on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Seaside, city, Clatsop county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Pacific Coast, south of Astoria. The site became popular as a seaside resort with the construction of a lavish guesthouse in the 1870s. A 2-mile (3-km) boardwalk runs atop a seawall paralleling the coast. Members of the Lewis and

Superstorm Sandy: Damage: The boardwalks of Seaside Heights and Belmar were also destroyed, along with many coastal developments along New Jersey’s shoreline. During the storm, water from the Hudson River overtopped the seawall protecting Hoboken and flooded much of the city, isolating an estimated 20,000 residents in their homes.

Bridgeport: …the entrance to the city’s Seaside Park, which covers more than 300 acres (120 hectares) on the shore of Long Island Sound. The arch is dedicated to William H. Perry, a prominent citizen and manufacturer. The city is the home of the University of Bridgeport (1927) and Housatonic Community-Technical College…

season, any of four divisions of the year according to consistent annual changes in the weather. The seasons—winter, spring, summer, and autumn—are commonly regarded in the Northern Hemisphere as beginning respectively on the winter solstice, December 21 or 22; on the vernal equinox, March 20 or

A Season in Hell, collection of prose and poetry pieces by French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, published in 1873, when Rimbaud was 19, as Une Saison en enfer. The collection is a form of spiritual autobiography in which the author comes to a new self-awareness through an examination of his life

Breyten Breytenbach: …Seisoen in die Paradys (A Season in Paradise) was published in 1976, and other prison writings were published as Mouroir: Bespieëlende notas van ’n roman (Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel) in 1983. In 1982 he was freed, and he subsequently returned to Paris. The True Confessions of an Albino…

Maryse Condé: Un Saison à Rihata (1981; A Season in Rihata) is set in a late 20th-century African land.

Aimé Césaire: …Une Saison au Congo (1966; A Season in the Congo), the epic of the 1960 Congo rebellion and of the assassination of the Congolese political leader Patrice Lumumba. Both depict the fate of black power as forever doomed to failure.

Canadian literature: Contemporary trends: …dans la vie d’Emmanuel (1965; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel), which won the Prix Médicis, presented a scathing denunciation of Quebec rural life, and Godbout’s Salut, Galarneau! (1967; Hail, Galarneau!) described the Americanization of Quebec. Blais went on to receive critical acclaim for Soifs (1995; These Festive Nights),…

George Lamming: …problems of political independence; and Season of Adventure (1960), in which a West Indian woman discovers her African heritage. The Pleasures of Exile (1960) is a collection of essays that examines Caribbean politics, race, and culture in an international context. Lamming’s later novels included Water with Berries (1971), a political…

Wole Soyinka: …the novels The Interpreters (1965), Season of Anomy (1973), and Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021), the latter of which drew particular praise for its satirical take on corruption in Nigeria. His several volumes of poetry included Idanre, and Other Poems (1967) and Poems from…

Yoko Ono: Later music career: …Ice” (1981) and the album Season of Glass (1981), which captured her emotional reaction to Lennon’s death, among the highlights. Her later releases include Rising (1995), recorded with Sean’s band IMA, and Between My Head and the Sky (2009), for which she resurrected the Plastic Ono Band moniker. Beginning in…

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ: …Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl (1966; Season of Migration to the North) is a prose poem that reflects the conflicts of modern Africa: traditions and common sense versus education, rural versus urban, men versus women, and the specific versus the universal. Ṣāliḥ’s prose is polyrhythmic and haunting.

seasonal affective disorder (SAD), mood disorder characterized by recurring depression in autumn and winter, separated by periods of nondepression in spring and summer. The condition was first described in 1984 by American psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal. In autumn, when the days grow progressively

season, any of four divisions of the year according to consistent annual changes in the weather. The seasons—winter, spring, summer, and autumn—are commonly regarded in the Northern Hemisphere as beginning respectively on the winter solstice, December 21 or 22; on the vernal equinox, March 20 or

Per Teodor Cleve: …and Cleve’s work on diatoms, The Seasonal Distribution of Atlantic Plankton Organisms (1900), became a basic text on oceanography.

economic development: Surplus resources and disguised unemployment: …may be better described as seasonal unemployment during the off-seasons. The magnitude of this seasonal unemployment, however, depends not so much on the population density on land as on the number of crops cultivated on the same piece of land through the year. There is thus little seasonal unemployment in…

transhumance, form of pastoralism or nomadism organized around the migration of livestock between mountain pastures in warm seasons and lower altitudes the rest of the year. The seasonal migration may also occur between lower and upper latitudes (as in the movement of Siberian reindeer between the

levonorgestrel: …in combination with estradiol in Seasonale—an extended-cycle oral contraceptive, which enables an 84-day span between menstruations—and in a morning-after pill called Plan B. In 1999 Plan B became available by prescription in the United States. In 2006, after a long politically charged debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved…

seasoning, in lumbering, drying lumber to prepare it for use. Unseasoned (green) wood is subject to attack by fungi and insects, and it also shrinks as it dries. Because it does not shrink evenly in all directions, it is likely to split and warp. The most common seasoning methods are air seasoning

flavouring, any of the liquid extracts, essences, and flavours that are added to foods to enhance their taste and aroma. Flavourings are prepared from essential oils, such as almond and lemon; from vanilla; from fresh fruits by expression; from ginger by extraction; from mixtures of essential oils

slavery: The international slave trade: …began the period of “seasoning” for the slave, the period of about a year or so when he either succumbed to the disease environment of the New World or survived it. Many slaves landed on the North American mainland before the early 18th century had already survived the seasoning…

Kenneth Koch: …also in ottava rima, as Seasons on Earth (1987). He also wrote Sleeping with Women (1969) and the long prose poem The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979), as well as many shorter verses, including those collected in Selected Poems 1950–82 (1991). In 1994 he published two collections, On…

Auguste Blanqui: …of Families”) and then the Société des Saisons (“Society of the Seasons”). The latter society’s disastrous attempt at insurrection on May 12, 1839, was the classic prototype of the Blanquist surprise attack. Five hundred armed revolutionaries took the Hôtel de Ville (“City Hall”) of Paris, but, isolated from the rest…

Joseph Haydn: The late Esterházy and Viennese period: An extended poem, The Seasons, by James Thomson, was chosen as the basis for the (much shorter) libretto, again adapted and translated—if somewhat awkwardly—by van Swieten so as to enable performance in either German or English. The libretto allowed Haydn to compose delightful musical analogues of events in…

Kristijonas Donelaitis: His main work, Metai (1818; The Seasons), 2,997 lines in length, was written in hexameters, which were never before used in Lithuanian verse. It depicts realistically and in their own dialect the life of the serfs and the countryside of 18th-century Prussian Lithuania. The poem was first published in an…

oratorio: Oratorio after 1750: Haydn called Die Jahreszeiten (1801; The Seasons) an oratorio, though its content is secular and its form a loosely articulated series of evocative pieces. Ludwig van Beethoven’s single oratorio, Christus am Ölberg (1803; Christ on the Mount of Olives), does not succeed, nor do most of those occasioned by the…

Victor Sjöström was a motion-picture actor and director who contributed significantly to the international preeminence of the Swedish silent film in the post-World War I era. Influenced by the novels of Selma Lagerlöf, whose art is rooted in sagas and folklore and imbued with a reverence for

Solange: A Seat at the Table: ” Solange’s commercial breakthrough came in 2016 with her album A Seat at the Table, which reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. That year Beyoncé also had a number one album, Lemonade, and the two became the first…

accident: Motor vehicle accidents: Although seat belts can save lives, millions of people fail to use them. Likewise, helmets are an effective means of protecting motorcyclists from traumatic brain injury and death, yet many riders choose not to wear a helmet.

Australian Capital Territory: History of the Australian Capital Territory: …ownership in accordance with the Seat of Government (Administration) Act of 1910. Also in 1911, the Commonwealth of Australia launched an international competition for the design of its new capital. First prize was awarded to Walter Burley Griffin, a Chicago architect who had worked in the studio of Frank Lloyd…

pinworm, worm belonging to the family Oxyuridae in the order Ascaridida (phylum Nematoda). Pinworms are common human intestinal parasites, especially in children. They are also found in other vertebrates. Male pinworms are 2 to 5 mm (about 0.08 to 0.2 inch) long; females range in length from 8 to

cyclothem: …seam is underlain by a seat-earth (underclay). Above the coal, a limestone or a claystone (shale or mudstone) with marine shells is often found. The marine shells disappear in the succeeding shales, to be replaced occasionally by nonmarine bivalves. Before another seat-earth and coal appears, a siltstone or a sandstone…

Gentile Bellini: In his pen-and-gouache drawing Seated Scribe (1479–80), Gentile employs a flat patterned style similar to that of the Turkish miniatures that influenced such later works as his Portrait of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo (1478–85).

Raymond Duchamp-Villon: With works such as Seated Woman (1914), Duchamp-Villon increasingly employed the Cubist painters’ technique of dissecting an object into abstract shapes.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck: …as The Fallen (1915–16) and Seated Youth (1918), which indicate the artist’s state of utter depression. He committed suicide one year later. Although he was not involved in the German Expressionist movement, the emotionalism and elongated features of his sculptures have led critics and historians to associate Lehmbruck with Expressionism.

Orange River: Physiography: The Seati (Khubedu) headwater rises near Mont-aux-Sources to the north. Still farther north is the lesser-known Malibamatso headwater, one site of the Lesotho Highland Project. The Lesotho headwaters flow over the turf soil that covers Drakensberg lava and cut through the lava to expose underlying sedimentary…

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), regional-defense organization from 1955 to 1977, created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defence Treaty, signed at Manila on September 8, 1954, by representatives of Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom,

Blyth Valley: The town of Seaton Delaval had strong links with the landowning Delaval family, for whom the classical-style Seaton Delaval Hall, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, was built (1719–30). Blyth Valley is mainly urban and suburban but contains some open countryside and woodland.

George Seaton was an American screenwriter and film director who was perhaps best known for his work on Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Country Girl (1954), both of which earned him Academy Awards for best screenplay. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Stenius,

Seattle, chief city of the state of Washington, U.S., seat (1853) of King county, the largest metropolis of the Pacific Northwest, and one of the largest and most affluent urban centers in the United States. A major port of entry and an air and sea gateway to Asia and Alaska, Seattle lies alongside

Seattle was the chief of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and other Puget Sound tribes who befriended white settlers of the region. Seattle came under the influence of French missionaries, was converted to Roman Catholicism, and instituted morning and evening services among his people—a practice maintained

If it was the worldwide reaction to the suicide of Nirvana’s driving force, Kurt Cobain, in 1994 that confirmed Seattle’s status as a major influence on early 1990s popular music, its arrival was announced by the band’s hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)—a forceful but melodic record that caught

Seattle: Cultural life: …the Space Needle and the Seattle Aquarium, the city serves as a gateway to the San Juan Islands, Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Olympic National Park and is close to several state parks and national wildlife refuges. Whale watching is a popular tourist activity; a park…

Seattle: City layout: …popular neighborhood of Belltown stands Seattle Center, the 74-acre (30-hectare) site of the 1962 World’s Fair. The center contains the 605-foot- (184-meter-) high Space Needle, Seattle’s best-known landmark, as well as McCaw Hall (home of the Seattle Opera), Climate Pledge Arena, the Children’s Museum, the Museum of Pop Culture, and…

Seattle: Municipal services: The city operates Seattle City Light, an electrical utility that, with other agencies, maintains a series of hydroelectric dams on nearby waterways. Among the earliest municipally owned utilities in the country and overseen by the city council’s energy and environmental policy committee, Seattle City Light has long served…

Seattle University, private, coeducational institution of higher education in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. It offers about 50 undergraduate degree programs and about 20 graduate degree programs; professional degrees are also

Seattle Kraken, American professional ice hockey team that plays in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is based in Seattle, Washington. The Kraken joined the NHL as an expansion team in 2021. Its name derives from the giant sea monster of Scandinavian and Norwegian lore