dymaxion
Speech parts
1. dymaxion - Noun
2. dymaxion - Adjective
Meaning
Dymaxion (plural Dymaxions)
A structure or device that is dymaxion in nature.
dymaxion (comparative more dymaxion, superlative most dymaxion)
Able to use technology to maximize the use of resources.
Examples
Fuller accepted a job decorating the interior of the café in exchange for meals, giving informal lectures several times a week, citation and models of the Dymaxion house were exhibited at the café.
Housing A Dymaxion house at The Henry Ford Fuller's energy-efficient and inexpensive Dymaxion house garnered much interest, but only two prototypes were ever produced.
Gaia in biology and science main Buckminster Fuller has been credited as the first to incorporate scientific ideas into a Gaia theory, which he did with his Dymaxion map of the Earth.
Building to some degree on his observations and artifacts, e.g. the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, others began to ask if there was a way to make the Gaia theory scientifically sound.
Fuller financed some of his experiments with inherited funds, sometimes augmented by funds invested by his collaborators, one example being the Dymaxion car project.
Here the term "Dymaxion" is used in effect to signify a "radically strong and light tensegrity structure".