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STANAG 4569
STANAG 4569 is a NATO standard defining graduated protection levels for occupants of armored vehicles against ballistic, artillery, grenade, mine, and IED threats, first issued in 1999.
STANAG magazine
The STANAG magazine, also called a NATO or M16 magazine, is a detachable firearm magazine for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition, patterned on the M16 rifle's magazine after a 1980 NATO proposal.
Stance detection
Stance detection is a natural language processing task that classifies a text's attitude toward a supplied target as favorable, unfavorable, or neither, unlike general sentiment analysis.
Stańczyk (painting)
Stańczyk (1862) is Jan Matejko's oil painting of the sad Polish court jester, 88 × 120 cm, National Museum in Warsaw, showing him alone while Queen Bona's ball continues and news of the 1514 loss of Smolensk arrives.
Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver (Con ganas de triunfar) is a 1988 American biographical drama directed by Ramón Menéndez, starring Edward James Olmos as real teacher Jaime Escalante, whose East LA Garfield High calculus students passed the AP exam, faced cheating accusations, and were vindicated; six Independent Spirit Awards, 2011 National Film Registry.
Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)
"Stand by Me" (Ben E. King song), also credited to Elmo Glick (Leiber and Stoller): 1961 Atlantic soul standard inspired by Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn; #4 US pop, #9 in 1986 via the film, UK #1 in 1987, 400+ covers.
Stand by Me (film)
Stand by Me (1986), Rob Reiner's coming-of-age drama adapted from Stephen King's novella The Body, follows four Oregon boys seeking a missing boy's corpse; rescued by Norman Lear, it earned over $52 million and an Oscar screenplay nomination.
Stand by Me Doraemon (STAND BY ME ドラえもん)
Stand by Me Doraemon (STAND BY ME ドラえもん) is a 2014 Japanese 3DCG animated film, the first full-3D Doraemon movie, directed by Takashi Yamazaki and Ryūichi Yagi, adapting episodes like Goodbye, Doraemon into one story of Doraemon and Nobita from meeting to parting.
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (STAND BY ME ドラえもん 2)
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (STAND BY ME ドラえもん 2) is a 2020 Japanese 3DCG anime film, sequel to 2014's Stand by Me Doraemon, directed by Ryuichi Yagi with Takashi Yamazaki, released by Toho November 20, 2020, adapting "Grandma's Memories."
Stand guidance system
A stand guidance system guides pilots taxiing onto an airport parking stand, most commonly the visual docking guidance system showing azimuth alignment and the precise stop position.
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door: George Wallace's June 11, 1963 blockade of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama against Black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, ended by Kennedy's federalization of the Alabama National Guard.
Stand Still and See
"Stand Still and See" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American psychological drama series Euphoria, written and directed by Sam Levinson.
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
"Stand Still Like the Hummingbird" is the fifth episode of Euphoria season 2 (HBO, February 6, 2022), written and directed by Sam Levinson, titled after Henry Miller's 1962 collection, a Rue-focused withdrawal episode that won Zendaya her second Emmy.
Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)
Stand Up (1969) is the second studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released September 1, 1969. Its UK No. 1 success, Martin Barre's arrival on guitar, and the Bach-based Bourée distinguish it from the blues debut This Was.
Stand Up Guys
Stand Up Guys is a 2012 American comedy crime film directed by Fisher Stevens, written by Noah Haidle, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as aging gangsters; released wide February 1, 2013, grossing $3.3 million.
Stand Up Paddle School
Stand Up Paddle School: a stand up paddleboarding (SUP) school teaching lessons, tours, and rentals; also a mapped OSM attraction node 5032443275 near Les Almadies, Dakar, Senegal, tagged sport=surfing, phone +221774817678.
Stand Up Surf Shop
Stand Up Surf Shop: North Fremantle, Western Australia SUP and foil retailer founded by Mike Galvin in 2009; over 200 boards, 40+ free demos; distinct from the identically named shop in Leon, Nicaragua.
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy: a solo comedian delivers rehearsed comic monologues directly to a live audience. Also known as stand-up. Roots in minstrelsy and vaudeville; modern clubs emerged in 1970s America; today spans clubs to 10,000-plus-seat arenas.
Stand-up meeting
A stand-up meeting, also known as a standing or Scrum meeting, is a short daily team meeting, capped at about 15 minutes, where members share progress, plans, and blockers.
Stand-up roller coaster
Stand-up roller coaster: steel coaster ridden standing on bicycle-type saddle seats with over-the-shoulder restraints; pioneered by TOGO in 1982 Japan, peaked with B&M's seven 1990s models, mostly converted to floorless; revived by Pipeline surf coaster, 2023.
Stand-your-ground law
Stand-your-ground law: US self-defense statute removing the duty to retreat outside the home, distinct from castle doctrine. Utah 1994 first; Florida 2005 model via ALEC; 35 states by 2025; associated with 8-11% firearm homicide increases.
Standalone 5G
Standalone 5G (5G SA) is a mobile network architecture in which 5G radio operates over a dedicated 5G core, enabling network slicing and lower latency.
Standard 52-card deck
Standard 52-card deck, French-suited playing-card deck with spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; 13 ranks per suit, 12 face cards, two jokers extra; French suit signs c. 1470, spread via Rouen, England, and Whist, Bridge, Poker; 7 riffle shuffles to mix.
Standard addition
Standard addition, also known as the standard addition method (SAM), is a calibration technique in quantitative chemical analysis in which known amounts of the analyte are added to the sample itself.
Standard American
Standard American is the classic North American contract bridge bidding system: five-card majors, a strong 15-17 HCP 1NT, weak twos, artificial 2♣ (22+), SAYC as pickup default, now largely replaced by 2/1 Game Force.
Standard Arabic phonology
Standard Arabic phonology describes the sound system of Modern Standard Arabic: 28 consonants including four emphatics, six vowels, CV-based syllables, right-edge trochaic stress, and dialect-influenced realizations of ḍād and ǧīm.
Standard atmosphere (unit)
The standard atmosphere (atm) is a unit of pressure defined as exactly 101,325 pascals, adopted in 1954 and roughly the average air pressure at sea level on Earth.
Standard atomic weight
The standard atomic weight is the IUPAC-recommended atomic weight of a chemical element, applicable with high confidence to any normal sample and revised about once every two decades.
Standard Average European
Standard Average European (SAE) is a proposed European Sprachbund of Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, and Balkan languages sharing rare grammatical features, a term coined by Whorf in 1939 and formalized by Haspelmath.
Standard Bank
Standard Bank is a South African banking and financial services group headquartered in Johannesburg, Africa's largest by assets, founded in 1862 and operating in 20 countries with about 19.6 million clients.