The proportion or ratio between a map measurement and the corresponding measurement in the real world; it is shown on maps and survey plans.
Term: Sectional Township
Definition:
(a) A township divided into uniformly sized sections and quarter sections without or without road allowances between sections where specified lines were established and set in the original survey, or
(b) The original subdivision of crown lands into townships.
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Term: Semi Major Axis
Definition:
The line from the center of an ellipse to the extremity of the longest diameter.
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Term: Semi Minor Axis
Definition:
The shortest line that can be drawn thru the center and from one side to the other of an ellipse or ellipsoid.
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Term: Servient Tenement
Definition:
The land subject to an easement or right-of-way, including the buildings and structures on the land.
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Term: Set
Definition:
Surveyor may determine that the best evidence for re-establishment of a property boundary is to "set" a distance or direction as shown on a deed, plan or other documentary record. This "set" distance/direction is documented on the survey with its origin. This represents the surveyor's legal opinion of the boundary location.
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The part of a sewage works as defined in the Ontario Water Resources Act that treats or disposes of sewage but does not include the part of the sewage works that collects or transmits sewage.
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Term: Shore
Definition:
The terms shore, bank, and water's edge, applied to navigable, non-tidal bodies of water, are synonymous as lines of demarcation and that the physical evidence to be sought in defining these lines may be described as follows: (a) Edge of the water in its natural condition. (b) Utmost border of dry land. (c) A line dividing the bed from the banks. (d) The water's edge. (e) An over-riding condition throughout that such lines of demarcation must be related to or governed by the water, (i) In its natural condition, (ii) Where its presence and action are common and usual in ordinary years.
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Term: Shore Recession Rate
Definition:
Refers to the average annual linear landward retreat of a shoreline or river bank.
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A shoreline sediment system which encompasses two littoral cells supplying depositional material to a common sink zone.
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Term: SIB (Standard Iron Bar)
Definition:
A 4 foot long, 1 inch square, solid iron bar installed at property corners to permanently mark boundary locations. May also be 2 feet long and designated a short standard iron bar (SSIB). Usually inscribed with the unique number of surveyor that planted the bar in the ground.
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Term: Sine (sin)
Definition:
The trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the side opposite a given angle (in a right-angled triangle) to the hypotenuse.
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Term: Site Condition Standards
Definition:
The full depth background site condition standards, full depth generic site condition standards and stratified site condition standards.
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Term: Site Survey
Definition:
A series of observations and measurements conducted at a construction site to determine the requirements for buildings, roads, and cut and fill.
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Term: Snake Rail Fence
Definition:
A type of fence constructed out of rough cut timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails. Also known as a split-rail fence, zigzag fence, worm fence or log fence due to its construction technique.
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Term: Soil Moisture
Definition:
Water diffused in the soil and remaining as a measurable quantity, as the volume of water divided by the total volume.
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Term: Soil Moisture Storage
Definition:
Water diffused in the soil. It is found in the upper part of the zone of aeration from which water is discharged by transpiration from plants or by soil evaporation .
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Term: Special By-laws
Definition:
Similar to regular by-laws but are limited to the licensing or leasing of common elements and the granting of easements over the common elements. They are created in the same manner as regular by-laws but require confirmation by not less than 66% (2/3) of the owners.
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Term: Specified Control Point
Definition:
A monument with coordinate values that are of record with and are stored and made available by a control survey authority, such as a federal or provincial agency, or by a municipality.
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Term: spiral curve
Definition:
a curve that winds around a center or central point which gradually recedes from or approaches it. As opposed to a circular curve, a spiral curve has no fixed radius.
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