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SSVP
SSVP, or Sistema Stykovki i Vnutrennego Perekhoda, is the Soviet and Russian probe-and-drogue docking system that has connected Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to space stations since 1971.
SSX
SSX is EA's snowboarding video game series, launched 2000 on PS2 under EA Sports BIG; SSX Tricky (2001), SSX 3 (2003), and the 2012 reboot with nine mountain ranges and Deadly Descents survival runs.
SSX (2012 video game)
SSX (2012) is an EA Canada snowboarding reboot for Xbox 360 and PS3, released February 28, 2012. Nine real mountain ranges built from NASA satellite data, survival Deadly Descents, wingsuit gear, RiderNet, Metacritic 82.
SSX 3
SSX 3 is a 2003 EA Canada snowboarding game (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA) in the SSX series, built around an open three-peak mountain, Conquer the Mountain mode, ubertricks, and a dynamic soundtrack; Metacritic 93 on PS2.
SSX Tricky
SSX Tricky (2001) is an arcade snowboarding racing and trick game by EA Canada under EA Sports BIG for PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, known for Uber tricks, the Run-DMC 'It's Tricky' soundtrack, and character rivalries.
SSZ-13
SSZ-13 is a synthetic small-pore zeolite first made in 1985, best known as the support for Cu-SSZ-13, the catalyst used to cut nitrogen oxides from diesel exhaust.
SSZ-39
SSZ-39 is a small-pore silicoaluminate zeolite with the AEI framework topology of eight-membered rings and large cavities, whose copper-exchanged form is an ammonia SCR catalyst for diesel NOx control.
St Albans
St Albans, Hertfordshire cathedral city on the site of Roman Verulamium, burial place of Saint Alban; city status 1877, about 148,200 district population, 21-minute London commute, and among England's priciest commuter cities.
St Albans Psalter
The St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter, is a twelfth-century English illuminated manuscript probably made at St Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140, now in Hildesheim, Germany.
St Andrew's (stadium)
St Andrew's, since 2024 St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park, is Birmingham City FC's 29,409-capacity stadium in Small Heath, opened 26 December 1906. Record crowd 66,844 (1939); rebuilt after the 1985 riot and Taylor Report; owned by Knighthead since 2023.
St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland: medieval ecclesiastical capital, site of Scotland's largest cathedral (consecrated 1318), home of Scotland's first university (1413) and golf's R&A; population about 18,300.
St Andrews Links
St Andrews Links, the Home of Golf in Fife, Scotland: public links including the Old Course, New, Jubilee, Eden, and Himalayas courses, run by the St Andrews Links Trust since 1974 and host of 28 Open Championships.
St Anthony
St Anthony (San Antonio), a Portuguese carrack owned by King John III, wrecked 19 January 1527 at Gunwalloe, Cornwall; rediscovered 1981, designated protected wreck site 1982.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
St Augustine's Abbey is a ruined Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, founded around 598 by St Augustine, a burial place for Kentish kings until its dissolution in 1538.
St Bartholomew-the-Great
St Bartholomew-the-Great, known as Great St. Bart's, is a Church of England parish church at West Smithfield in London, formed from a priory founded in 1123.
St Bees
St Bees is a seaside village and civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England, on the Irish Sea, known for St Bees Priory and the Coast to Coast Walk.
St Bees Man
St Bees Man is a remarkably well-preserved medieval body found in 1981 at St Bees Priory, Cumbria, identified as Anthony de Lucy, a knight who died in 1368.
St Bees Priory
St Bees Priory, a Benedictine priory founded c.1120-1135 in St Bees, Cumbria, a cell of St Mary's Abbey York, dissolved 1539; its Grade I church of St Mary and St Bega survives as the parish church, with Butterfield restoration, Willis organ, and the St Bees Man burial.
St Catherine's Court
St Catherine's Court is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house with Grade II registered terraced gardens near Batheaston, Somerset, formerly a Bath Abbey priory grange, owned by Jane Seymour 1984-2007.
St Crispin's Day Speech
The St Crispin's Day speech, Henry V's 'band of brothers' oration in Act 4 Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Henry V, delivered before Agincourt (1415); its Quarto and Folio versions differ, and its sources run from chronicles to Lancelot Andrewes' 1599 sermon.
St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
St Cuthbert's Society (Cuth's), founded 1888, is the third-oldest college of Durham University, begun as a non-residential society for mature students; notable for its Bailey and Parson's Field sites, catered/self-catered/part-catered options, and student-run independent JCR charity.
St Davids
St Davids (Tyddewi) is Britain's smallest city, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, holding city status through its 12th-century cathedral on the site of St David's 6th-century monastery; status reinstated 1994.
ST depression
ST depression: an ECG finding where the ST segment sits below baseline, measured at the J point. Mainly a marker of myocardial ischemia (NSTE-ACS, posterior STEMI), but also caused by LBBB, LVH, digoxin, hypokalemia, and tachycardia.
St Edward's Crown
St Edward's Crown is the British coronation crown, made for Charles II in 1661 by Sir Robert Vyner after the medieval crown of Edward the Confessor was melted down in 1649; solid gold, 444 stones, about 2.28 kg.
St Edward's School, Oxford
St Edward's School, Oxford ("Teddies"), a co-educational Church of England boarding and day school for ages 13–18. Founded 1863 by Rev. Thomas Chamberlain, moved to Summertown 1873; ~810 pupils, IB and A Level sixth form, Warden Alastair Chirnside.
ST elevation
ST elevation: ECG finding of an elevated ST segment measured at the J point; defines STEMI at ≥1 mm in 2 contiguous leads (higher V2-V3 cut-points) but also occurs in pericarditis, early repolarization, LBBB, LVH, and other mimics.
ST Engineering
ST Engineering (Singapore Technologies Engineering) is a Singapore-listed technology and engineering group in commercial aerospace, defense and public security, and urban solutions, controlled by Temasek Holdings and employing over 27,000 people.
St George, Queensland
St George is a rural town and locality in the Balonne Shire, southwest Queensland, about 550 km west of Brisbane, on the Balonne River. Administrative centre of the shire, cotton-irrigation hub, 3,130 residents (2021), recurrent major floods.
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel is the late medieval royal chapel at Windsor Castle, begun in 1475 by Edward IV and the chapel of the Order of the Garter.
St George's Park National Football Centre
St George's Park National Football Centre: the FA's £105m training and coach-education home for all England national teams, opened 9 October 2012 at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, with 13 outdoor pitches, a Wembley replica pitch, Perform sports medicine centre and an on-site Hilton hotel.