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Dymaxion
Artificial term used by Fuller to attribute his inventions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a term coined by Buckminster Fuller. For the map projection, see Dymaxion map. For other uses, see Dymaxion (disambiguation).
Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work—prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. Dymaxion, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension;[1] sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input."[2]
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