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Stemming
Stemming, or word stemming, is a text-normalization technique in natural language processing that cuts affixes off words so variants like eating and eat share a stem.
Sten
The Sten, or Sten gun, was a British 9mm submachine gun of the Second World War, designed for cheap mass production and supplied to resistance movements in occupied Europe.
Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen
Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen, born 1961 in Oslo, is a Norwegian hematologist and stem cell biologist who studies blood stem cells, professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2015.
Sten Eriksson
Sten Eriksson is a Swedish physician and researcher at Lund University and Malmö General Hospital who co-discovered alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency in 1963 and later quantified its risks of cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner is a Swedish neurophysiologist and Distinguished Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for showing that spinal cord networks generate locomotion and for developing the lamprey as a model vertebrate.
Sten Linnarsson
Sten Linnarsson, born 1971, is a Swedish molecular systems biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for single-cell brain atlases, RNA velocity, and spatial transcriptomics, and Karolinska's Academic Vice President since 2026.
Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny is a German novelist and historian whose 1983 novel The Discovery of Slowness became one of the most successful German-language novels of its decade.
Sten Orrenius
Sten Orrenius (1937–2020) was a Swedish toxicologist and cell-death researcher, Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, best known for linking calcium signaling, mitochondrial oxidative stress, and apoptosis.
Sten Pettersson
Sten "Sten-Pelle" Pettersson (1902–1984), Swedish hurdler, IK Göta; Olympic 110 m hurdles bronze 1924, world records at both 110 m and 400 m hurdles, 22 Swedish titles, first Bragdguldet winner 1925; distinct from the AIK footballer of the same name.
Sten Stensen
Sten Stensen (Sten Einar Stensen, born 1947, Drammen) is a Norwegian former speed skater, 1976 Olympic 5,000 m champion and 10,000 m silver medalist, 1974 world and 1975 European allround champion, and twice 10,000 m world record holder.
Sten Suvio
Sten Suvio (Schuschin, "Stepa"), 1911–1988, Finnish welterweight boxer; first Finnish Olympic boxing champion, winning 66.6 kg gold at Berlin 1936 by unanimous decision over Germany's Michael Murach; later professional 1936–1949 and national coach.
Stena Bulk
Stena Bulk is a Swedish tanker shipping company founded in 1982, headquartered in Gothenburg, and part of the Stena Sphere, with a fleet of roughly 60 to 70 vessels.
Stena Line
Stena Line is a Swedish ferry operator founded in Gothenburg in 1962 by Sten A Olsson, running ferries on routes across Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Stencil
A stencil (French: pochoir) is a sheet with a design cut out, through which color is applied to print a repeated image, a technique dating to about 500 C.E.
Stencil printing (electronics manufacturing)
Stencil printing is an electronics assembly process that deposits solder paste onto PCB pads through a stencil; after reflow, it forms the conductive interconnects between components and pads.
Stendhal
Stendhal, pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), French novelist born in Grenoble; author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, pioneer of psychological realism, consul at Civitavecchia, recognized mainly posthumously.
Stenella
Stenella (Gray, 1866) is a genus of five oceanic dolphin species, spotted, spinner, striped, and clymene dolphins, found in tropical to temperate seas worldwide; molecular phylogenies since 1999 show the genus is paraphyletic.
Stenella attenuata
Stenella attenuata, the pantropical spotted dolphin (bridled dolphin), is an abundant oceanic dolphin of tropical waters worldwide; IUCN Least Concern, over 2.3 million estimated, but the eastern tropical Pacific population fell 80% from tuna purse seine bycatch.
Stenella coeruleoalba
Stenella coeruleoalba, the striped dolphin (delfín listado), is a slender oceanic dolphin of warm-temperate and tropical seas, 2.2–2.5 m long, with blue-white stripes, acrobatic leaps, IUCN Least Concern status, and an Endangered Gulf of Corinth subpopulation.
Stenella frontalis
Stenella frontalis, the Atlantic spotted dolphin (Cuvier, 1829), a Delphinidae dolphin endemic to warm Atlantic waters; 5-7.5 ft, 220-315 lb, spots develop with age; IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II, MMPA protected.
Stenella longirostris
Stenella longirostris, the spinner dolphin, a pantropical delphinid known for aerial spins, night feeding on mesopelagic prey, and daytime resting in bays; IUCN Least Concern, eastern subspecies Vulnerable.
Steneosaurus
Steneosaurus ('narrow lizard'), named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1825, is a Jurassic teleosauroid crocodylomorph genus, long a wastebasket taxon, now a nomen dubium after its type species S. rostromajor was judged undiagnostic in 2020.
Stenhousemuir
Stenhousemuir: town in Falkirk council area, Scotland, near Larbert; grew around the Falkirk tryst cattle market (held there since 1785); named for Arthur's O'on, a Roman monument destroyed in 1743; population about 9,600.
Stenhousemuir F.C.
Stenhousemuir F.C., The Warriors, is a Scottish Championship club founded 1884 in Stenhousemuir, playing at Ochilview Park. First league title 2023-24, Challenge Cup 1995, promoted to the second tier in 2026.
Sténio Vincent
Sténio Joseph Vincent (1874–1959) was a Haitian lawyer, journalist, and politician who served as president of Haiti from 1930 to 1941, negotiating the end of the American occupation in 1934 and then ruling increasingly authoritarianly.
Stenkil
Stenkil (died c. 1066), king of Sweden from c. 1060, founder of the Stenkil dynasty ruling to c. 1130; a Christian king of Västergötland who cooperated with Hamburg–Bremen but blocked the burning of the Uppsala temple.
Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center is NASA's primary rocket propulsion testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, which tested Saturn V and shuttle engines and now tests SLS for Artemis.
Steno (Martian crater)
Steno (Feature ID 5697) is an IAU-named impact crater on Mars, about 106.90 km across, centered at −67.76° latitude, 244.40°E longitude in the southern high latitudes; recorded in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
Steno-2 trial
Steno-2 trial: Danish randomized trial (1993) of intensified versus conventional multifactorial treatment in 160 patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria; 53% lower cardiovascular risk, 7.9 years longer median survival.
Stenocercus
Stenocercus, whorl-tailed iguanas (Tropiduridae), is a South American lizard genus from the Andes and lowlands, 0–4,000 m, with about 81 species, late Oligocene origins, and ongoing new-species descriptions.