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Term: Scale
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The proportion or ratio between a map measurement and the corresponding measurement in the real world; it is shown on maps and survey plans.
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Term: SDS
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Acronym for South of Dundas Street.
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(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: Sediment
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Transported and deposited particles derived from rocks, soil or biological material. Sediment is also referred to as the layer of soil, sand and minerals at the bottom of surface water , such as streams, lakes and rivers.
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Term: Seepage
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The appearance and disappearance of water at the ground surface. Seepage designates the type of movement of water in saturated material. It is different from percolation , which is the predominant type of movement of water in unsaturated material.
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A slightly rounded arch over a window or door.
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Term: Seisin
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1. Legal possession of land, as a freehold estate. 2. a. The act or an instance of taking legal possession of land. b. Property thus possessed.
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The line from the center of an ellipse to the extremity of the longest diameter.
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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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An elongated round arch over a window or door.
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The land subject to an easement or right-of-way, including the buildings and structures on the land.
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Term: Set
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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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Term: Setbacks
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A limitation line established at a prescribed distance from a boundary by an authority agency, e.g. zoning, buffer zone.
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Term: Severance
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A term used in Ontario for subdiving a parcel of land.
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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
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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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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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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: Side Line
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The side boundary of an original township or subdivision lot. Methods for re-establishing the location of these line, failing better evidence, are set out it the Survey's Act.
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Term: Sill
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The flat horizontal bottom piece of a window or door, often of wood, but sometimes of stone.
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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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The full depth background site condition standards, full depth generic site condition standards and stratified site condition standards.
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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: Sketch
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A drawing prepared from compiled information and does not certify the property boundaries.
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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: Snowfall
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The amount of snow, hail, sleet or other precipitation occurring in solid form which reaches the earth's surface. It may be expressed in depth in inches after it falls, or in terms of inches or millimetres in depth of the equivalent amount of water.
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Term: Snowpack
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The winter accumulation of snow on the ground surface.
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Term: Soil
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Unconsolidated naturally occurring mineral particles resulting from the breakdown of rock or organic matter that are small than 2 millimetres in size.
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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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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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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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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: Spheroid
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A mathematical figure closely approaching the geoid in form and size.
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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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Term: spring
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A place where groundwater naturally comes to the surface, resulting from the water table meeting the land surface.
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