Examples
“This architectural principle-known as tensegrity-has been the focus of artists and architects for many years, but it also exists throughout nature.”
“Update: Comment of the day, in the related BB comments thread, by "tensegrity":”
“This specific type of body configuration is called '' tensegrity '', use bone as compression member and ligament as tension cable.”
“TimToady recently posted about snippiness and 'tensegrity', so I'm not John M. Dlugosz wrote:”
“The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.”
“The bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity, an architectural and engineering system in which the structural integrity is a synergy between balanced tension and compression components.”
“Brisbane, Australia unveiled the world's largest tensegrity bridge, an LED powered haven for the city's pedestrians and cyclists.”
The Huffington Post: Pedestrian And Bike Only Zones (PHOTOS)
“At the axis of the wheel, suspended in a spoked tensegrity structure, is the atomic powered ion/plasma rocket engine and e/m field generator.”
Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019 | Universe Today
“Designed for the Swiss Expo in 2002, its lightweight tensegrity structure suspended the platform and metal construction over the Lake Neuchatel, while 31400 high-pressure jets created a perpetual artificial cloud.”
“Bruce was once an engineer at The North Face, the outdoor equipment company whose tents utilized Fuller's principle of tensegrity.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tensegrity’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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There's a word for it
catkin, pastiche, badonkadonk, biome, omphaloscopy, pogonophobia, reptation, anathema, xyst, commodify, commoditize, monetize and 69 more...
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Remember Not To Forget
Sephardic, Umwelt, amphiboly, untrammeled, sequela, pandiculation, tensegrity, syncretism, pugilism, shemagh, disquisition, perspicacity and 65 more...
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Bucky Fuller's projectiles
R Buckminster Fuller created and coined so many terms and ideas that it certainly warrants a list here.
As RBF said "Dare to be naive."
Bucky would probably say "buck the ...wrapability, indigs, geodesic, compound curvature, omnidirectuional ..., synergetics, tetrahelix, SSRCD numbers, wiz of wiz-dom, cosmic illions, omnitopolgy, tensegrity and 36 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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andystardust's Words
liminal, soporific, solipsism, calumny, sanguine, egregious, inimical, corpus, divulge, a fortiori, salutary, evanescence and 118 more...
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Bucky-isms
Buckminster Fuller's neologisms. (http://wordie.org/lists/11250 exists but is empty.)
world-around, killingry, livingry, ephemeralization, spaceship earth, sunsight, sunclipse, tensegrity, dymaxion
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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arnon's Words
treatise, enthrall, nimble, hinder, serene, transhumanism, meliorism, denote, apropos, equivalence, valence, orthogonal and 156 more...
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T-words
tantony, tath, timmynoggy, thole, tortfeaser, twiss, tyg, trichechine, tanquam, tattogey, thebaine, thob and 36 more...
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SUP Authors
Crazy, crazy words in the books we publish
phallocratic, boustrophedonically, verificationary, amb-iguity, amanuensis, scriptocentric, pathographies, (w)human, experientiality, hagiography, vitiate, prosopopoeia and 53 more...
Tweets
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sionnach Tensegrity: "the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy."
Buckminster Fuller explains it all for us:
"The universe must be a comprehensively finite integrity, permitting only a locally-islanded infinitude of observer-considered-and-regenerated differentiating discovery."
Buckminster Fuller on tensegrity
Wait, there's more. Let's hear what lovable fraud-guru Carlos Castaneda has to say:
The observations of those shamans upon practicing the art of dreaming were a mixture of reason and seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe. They realized that at its habitual position, the assemblage point is the spot where converges a given, minuscule portion of the energy filaments that make up the universe, but if the assemblage point changes location, within the luminous egg, a different minuscule portion of energy fields converges on it, giving as a result a new inflow of sensory data: energy fields different from the habitual ones are turned into sensory data, and those different energy fields are interpreted as a different world.
The art of dreaming became for those shamans their most absorbing practice.
Their efforts culminated in the discovery and development of a great number of such movements, which they called magical passes.
They decided, therefore, to rescue the magical passes from their obscure state. They created in this fashion, Tensegrity, a most appropriate name because it is a mixture of two terms: tension and integrity; terms which connote the two driving forces of the magical passes.
Castaneda on tensegrity
Oct 28, 2008