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Standardized Precipitation Index
The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a drought index expressing precipitation over periods like 3 or 12 months as a standardized departure from local climatological norms.
Standardized rate
A standardized rate is a disease or mortality rate adjusted to a reference age structure, allowing fair comparison of populations; it includes directly standardized rates and SMRs.
Standardized test
A standardized test, also called a standardized examination, is an assessment given and scored under consistent conditions so scores can be compared across test takers.
Standards Australia
Standards Australia, formerly the Standards Association of Australia, is Australia's independent, not-for-profit national standards body. Founded in 1922, it maintains over 6,000 Australian Standards and represents Australia at ISO and the IEC.
Standards Council of Canada
The Standards Council of Canada, or Conseil canadien des normes, is a federal Crown corporation created in 1970 that coordinates voluntary standardization and accredits standards development and conformity assessment bodies.
Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, issued jointly by AERA, APA, and NCME, sets professional expectations for validity, reliability, and fairness in testing; the current edition dates from 2014.
Standards organization
A standards organization, or standards development organization, is a body that develops voluntary technical standards promoting quality, safety, and interoperability, ranging from ISO, IEC, and ITU to private consortia.
Standards Organization of Nigeria
The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) is Nigeria's apex standardization body, established by an act of 1971 to prepare Nigerian Industrial Standards, certify products, and assure quality of goods.
Standby
Stand-by (Standby) is a 2000 French drama by Roch Stéphanik starring Dominique Blanc as a woman abandoned at Orly airport who stays and turns to prostitution; it won the 2001 César for Best Actress and the Prix Cyril Collard.
Standby power
Standby power, also called vampire power or phantom load, is the electricity consumed by devices that appear switched off while still plugged in, totaling 20 to 60 watts per home.
Ständchen, D 889 (Schubert)
Ständchen, D 889 ('Horch, horch! die Lerch'), a 1826 Schubert song for voice and piano on Schlegel's Shakespeare translation, C major, distinct from the Schwanengesang serenade.
Standedge Tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels beneath the Pennines between Marsden and Diggle, England, including the canal tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, opened in 1811 and the longest in Britain.
Standen
Standen is an Arts and Crafts country house at East Grinstead, West Sussex, built 1891–1894 by Philip Webb for James and Margaret Beale, furnished by Morris & Co., Grade I listed, and a National Trust property since 1972.
Standin' on the Corner Park
Standin' on the Corner Park, Winslow, Arizona: a Route 66 park opened in 1999 commemorating the Eagles' song "Take It Easy," featuring a John Pugh mural, a Ron Adamson bronze statue, and a flatbed Ford.
Standing (law)
Standing (law), or locus standi, is the capacity to bring a lawsuit; in U.S. federal court it requires injury in fact, causation, and redressability under Lujan, while state courts often apply looser standing doctrines.
Standing accretion shock instability
The standing accretion shock instability (SASI) is a hydrodynamic instability in which a stalled core-collapse supernova shock sloshes and spirals, first seen in 2D simulations in 2003.
Standing army
A standing army is a permanent, professional force of full-time soldiers maintained by a state in peacetime as well as war, distinct from temporary levies and mercenaries.
Standing Buddha from Sarnath
The Standing Buddha from Sarnath is a 5th-century Gupta sandstone sculpture found at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, showing the Buddha with one hand raised in protection and held in the British Museum.
Standing cross
A standing cross is an upright, free-standing stone cross erected in Britain and Ireland from the mid 10th to mid 16th centuries, serving processions, preaching, markets, and proclamation.
Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon
A Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon (十一面観音立像, Jūichimen Kannon ryūzō) is a Japanese statue of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion, with ten small heads above the main head, produced from the Nara period (710–794) onward.
Standing Figure of Nefertiti
The Standing Figure of Nefertiti is a painted limestone statuette of Queen Nefertiti, dated 1351–1334 BC, excavated at Tell el-Amarna in 1912–1913 and held in Berlin.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Standing in the Shadows of Motown: 2002 Paul Justman documentary, from Allan Slutsky's 1989 Jamerson book, honoring Motown's Funk Brothers; Grammy-winning soundtrack, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, Detroit reunion concert film.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is Oasis's fourth studio album, released 28 February 2000 on their own Big Brother Recordings label, produced by Mark "Spike" Stent and Noel Gallagher, a UK number one selling 310,000 copies in its first week.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" is a metaphor for intellectual progress built on earlier thinkers, familiar from Isaac Newton's 1675 letter to Robert Hooke.
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story is a 2024 mockumentary, the fourth Trailer Park Boys film, directed by Charlie Lightening, written by and starring Mike Smith as Bubbles on a failed European tour with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters; it grossed $223,675 worldwide.
Standing Orders
Standing orders are written, pre-authorized medical instructions allowing nurses, pharmacists, and other non-physician staff to deliver tests, treatments, or vaccinations when patients meet defined criteria, without a physician order at the time of care.
Standing ovation
A standing ovation happens when audience members rise and applaud at the end of a performance or speech, the most visible form of audience praise.
Standing Position
Standing position: the upright, orthostatic human posture supported only by the feet (MeSH D000078783, 2019). Covers its anatomy, evolutionary origin, and health effects of prolonged occupational standing.
Standing Rock Agency
The Standing Rock Agency is the Bureau of Indian Affairs field office serving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, headquartered at Fort Yates, North Dakota, since 1873.
Standing Stones of Stenness
Standing Stones of Stenness: Neolithic henge and oval stone circle on Mainland Orkney, Scotland, dated about 3100–2900 BC, possibly Britain's earliest henge, with four surviving stones within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.