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Standing wave
A standing wave, also called a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in place without traveling, formed when two identical waves moving in opposite directions interfere.
Standing wave ratio
Standing wave ratio (SWR), most commonly voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), measures impedance mismatch on a transmission line, running from 1 for a matched line to infinity.
Standoff (film)
Standoff (2016) is a Canadian-American thriller, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, and Ella Ballentine; a veteran with a one-shell shotgun protects a girl who photographed an assassin. Not the 1998 cult thriller or the 2016 teen comedy The Standoff.
Standortauswahlgesetz
The Standortauswahlgesetz (StandAG), the Repository Site Selection Act, is a German federal law requiring a science-based search for a nuclear waste repository, begun in 2013.
Standpoint theory
Standpoint theory is a family of epistemological positions that emerged in the 1970s. It claims that marginalized perspectives are epistemically advantaged and that research should begin with their lives.
Standpunte
Standpunte, an Afrikaans literary journal founded in Cape Town in December 1945 by N.P. van Wyk Louw, W.E.G. Louw, and H.A. Mulder, remained the leading Afrikaans intellectual periodical until 1986.
Standup paddleboarding
Standup paddleboarding (SUP, Hoe he'e nalu) is a Hawaiian-origin water sport of standing on a surfboard-like board and paddling; practiced for racing, touring, yoga, and fishing, with documented fitness benefits and drowning as its main fatal risk.
Stane Street
Stane Street: 91 km (57 mi) Roman road from Londinium (London Bridge) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), built in straight limbs from c. AD 43-70, followed today by the A3, A24, A29, and A285, with scheduled surviving sections in Surrey and Sussex.
Stanegate
Stanegate: Roman road from Corbridge to Carlisle south of Hadrian's Wall; with its forts, fortlets, and signal towers it formed the Trajanic frontier of Roman Britain c. 100 to AD 122.
Stanene
Stanene is a two-dimensional monolayer of tin atoms in a buckled honeycomb lattice, the tin analog of graphene, predicted to be a topological insulator with a quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature.
Stanfield Organization
Fictional West Baltimore drug organization in The Wire, led by Marlo Stanfield with Chris Partlow and Monk Metcalf; it supplanted the Barksdale Organization in 2004 and dissolved by 2008.
Stanford Alpaca
Stanford Alpaca is a 7-billion-parameter instruction-following language model released by Stanford researchers on March 13, 2023, a fine-tune of Meta's LLaMA 7B reproduced for under $600.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, known as SAIL, is Stanford University's AI research lab, founded in 1963 by John McCarthy and known for DENDRAL, the Stanford Cart, and robotics.
Stanford Bio-X
Stanford Bio-X is Stanford University's interdisciplinary biosciences institute, founded in 1998 by James Spudich and colleagues, headquartered in the James H. Clark Center since 2003 and linking over 1,300 faculty across Stanford's schools.
Stanford Caldwell Hooper
Stanford Caldwell Hooper (1884–1955) was a United States Navy rear admiral known as the "Father of Navy Radio" who headed the Navy's Radio Division and helped establish RCA.
Stanford Cardinal
The Stanford Cardinal, formerly the Stanford Indians, are the athletic teams of Stanford University in Stanford, California, best known for the Big Game football rivalry with UC Berkeley.
Stanford Cardinal football
Stanford Cardinal football: Stanford University's NCAA Division I FBS team, now in the ACC (joined 2024). Two claimed national titles (1926, 1940), 15 conference championships, home at Stanford Stadium, annual Big Game rivalry with California.
Stanford E. Woosley
Stanford E. Woosley is an American theoretical astrophysicist, emeritus professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts and supernova nucleosynthesis calculations, winning the 2026 Shaw and Gruber prizes.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), also called Stanford Encyclopedia: free, peer-reviewed, dynamically updated online philosophy encyclopedia founded 1995 at Stanford's CSLI, with nearly 1,800 expert-authored, refereed entries under an open-access non-commercial license.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the business school of Stanford University in California, founded in 1925 and known for its highly selective MBA program.
Stanford Linear Collider
The Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) was an electron-positron linear collider at SLAC in California, the only high-energy linear collider ever operated, which ran from 1989 to 1998 producing Z bosons.
Stanford marshmallow experiment
Stanford marshmallow experiment: Walter Mischel's 1968-1974 Bing Nursery School delay-of-gratification task, offering one treat now or two after 15 minutes; famous longitudinal claims about later success have not held up in controlled replications.
Stanford Medicine
Stanford Medicine is Stanford University's integrated academic health system: the School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children's Health. Founded from Cooper Medical College (1858), it moved to Palo Alto in 1959 and pioneered US heart transplantation.
Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore (1913–1982) was an American biochemist at The Rockefeller University who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the enzyme ribonuclease.
Stanford prison experiment
The Stanford prison experiment, also known as the Zimbardo experiment, was a 1971 Stanford psychology study in which students playing guards abused student prisoners, ending after six days.
Stanford Pupper
Stanford Pupper is a small open-source quadruped robot developed at Stanford University that can hop, trot, and run, built for about $600 to $1000 for research and education.
Stanford Solomon Penner
Stanford Solomon Penner, known as Sol Penner, was a German-born American combustion physicist who worked on propulsion and spectroscopy and founded UC San Diego's engineering program.
Stanford Stadium
Stanford Stadium: Stanford Cardinal football venue in Stanford, California, opened 1921 with the Big Game, rebuilt 2006 at 50,424 seats; hosted Super Bowl XIX and 1994 World Cup matches.
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) is a synchrotron X-ray user facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy.
Stanford torus
The Stanford torus is a wheel-shaped space habitat design from a 1975 NASA study: a rotating ring about 1.8 km across providing Earth-normal gravity for 10,000 residents.