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Samosa
Samosa (sanbusaj, sambusa, samsa): a triangular fried or baked pastry of stiff unleavened dough with spiced filling, originating in 10th-century Middle Eastern meat pastries, adopted in India, now a global snack with a USD 7.1 billion market.
Samoset
Samoset (c. 1590-1653, also Somerset), Abenaki sagamore of Monhegan, Maine, was the first Native American to greet the Plymouth Pilgrims, walking in alone on 16 March 1621 saying "Welcome, Englishmen," then introducing them to Squanto and Massasoit.
SAMOTA Biosphere Reserve
SAMOTA Biosphere Reserve, short for Saleh–Moyo–Tambora, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve on Sumbawa in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, designated in 2019, covering about 724,631 hectares around Saleh Bay, Moyo Island, and Tambora National Park.
Samotlor Field
Samotlor Field (Самотлорское месторождение) is a giant oil and gas field in Western Siberia, near Nizhnevartovsk, and the largest oil field in Russia by initial recoverable reserves.
Samovar (самовар)
The samovar (самовар) is a heated metal urn used in Russia and neighboring countries to boil water and keep it hot for tea, first recorded in 1746.
Samoyed dog
Samoyed (Samoiedskaïa Sabaka), also called Sammy: an Arctic spitz dog breed from Siberia, named for the Samoyedic peoples; AKC Working Group breed recognized 1906, white double coat, 12-14 year lifespan, sled and reindeer-herding heritage.
SAMP-T
SAMP-T (Sol Air Moyenne Portée Terrestre) is a French-Italian medium- and long-range surface-to-air missile system developed by Eurosam, in service since 2011 and deployed to Ukraine since 2023.
SAMP/T
SAMP/T (Sol-Air Moyenne Portée/Terrestre), known in French service as MAMBA, is a Franco-Italian mobile air and missile defense system developed by Eurosam, using Aster 30 missiles and comparable to the Patriot.
SAMP6
SAMP6 (Senescence-Accelerated Mouse Prone 6) is an inbred AKR/J-derived mouse strain from Kyoto University used as a model of senile osteoporosis, with low peak bone mass, impaired osteoblastogenesis, and shortened survival.
SAMP8
SAMP8, the senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8, is an inbred laboratory mouse strain developed at Kyoto University in 1981 that ages prematurely and shows learning and memory deficits with Alzheimer-like brain pathology.
Sampath P
Sampath P (Sampathkumar P) is an Indian venture investor who has been a Partner at Kalaari Capital in Bengaluru since August 2023, having been the firm's first employee.
Sampatiya Uikey
Sampatiya Uikey, born 1967, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as a cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh, holding the Public Health Engineering portfolio, and the MLA from Mandla.
Sampdoria
U.C. Sampdoria (Blucerchiati), Genoa football club founded 12 August 1946 from the Sampierdarenese-Andrea Doria merger; 1991 Serie A champions, 1990 Cup Winners' Cup winners, 1992 European Cup finalists, now in Serie B with heavy losses.
Sampha
Sampha, the stage name of Sampha Lahai Sisay, is an English singer and producer from South London who won the 2017 Mercury Prize for his album Process.
Samphire
Samphire, also called Saint Peter's herb, names two unrelated salty coastal plants eaten as vegetables: the marsh glassworts Salicornia and Sarcocornia, and rock samphire of sea cliffs.
Samphran Elephant Ground & Zoo
Samphran Elephant Ground & Zoo (ลานแสดงช้างและฟาร์มจระเข้สามพราน) is an animal park in Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand, opened in 1985 and known for elephant shows and crocodile wrestling.
Sampildondovgiin Danzan
Sampildondovgiin Danzan, also known as Soliin Danzan (Солийн Данзан), was a Mongolian revolutionary and statesman, first chairman of the Mongolian People's Party, executed in 1924 and rehabilitated in 1992.
SAMPL
SAMPL (Statistical Assessment of Modeling of Proteins and Ligands) is an NIH-funded series of blind challenges where computational chemists predict withheld experimental values, founded in 2007.
Sample Analysis at Mars
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of three chemistry instruments inside NASA's Curiosity rover, launched in 2011 and landed in Gale Crater in 2012.
Sample and hold circuit
A sample-and-hold circuit (S/H, also SHA) is an analog circuit that captures a signal's instantaneous voltage and holds it steady on a capacitor until an analog-to-digital converter can use it.
Sample complexity
Sample complexity is the number of training examples a learning algorithm needs to reach a specified accuracy with a specified confidence, as formalized in the PAC framework.
Sample entropy
Sample entropy (SampEn) is a complexity measure for time series that estimates the probability that similar segments stay similar one point later; higher values mean more irregular signals.
Sample size determination
Sample size determination, also called sample size calculation, is the process of deciding how many participants or observations a study needs for adequate precision or statistical power.
Sample space
The sample space, also called the possibility space or sample description space, is the set of all possible outcomes of a random experiment, denoted Ω.
Sampler (musical instrument)
Sampler (musical instrument) is an electronic device that records and stores digital sound samples, allowing playback from a keyboard while supporting looping, editing, and sound-shaping.
Sampling (music)
Sampling (music): reusing fragments of existing sound recordings in new works, central to hip-hop and electronic music; involves two copyrights, MPC60/SP-1200 hardware, Grand Upright v. Warner, and sample clearance costs.
Sampling (signal processing)
Sampling in signal processing converts a continuous-time signal into a discrete sequence of numbers by measuring it at regular intervals, governed by the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem and limited by aliasing.
Sampling (statistics)
Sampling in statistics, or statistical sampling, is selecting a subset of a population so measurements on it can estimate characteristics of the whole, at far less cost than a census.
Sampling bias
Sampling bias, also called ascertainment bias, is the systematic deviation of a sample from the population it is meant to represent, often caused by flawed selection.
Sampling calorimeter
A sampling calorimeter is a particle-physics detector made of alternating dense absorber and thin active layers, measuring particle energy from the small fraction of shower energy deposited in the active layers.