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Sticky bit

The sticky bit is a Unix permission bit that protects files in shared directories like /tmp: only the file's owner, the directory's owner, or root can delete them.

Sticky Fingaz (Kirk Jones, born 1973, Brooklyn) is an American rapper and actor, frontman of hardcore rap group Onyx, whose 1993 debut Bacdafucup and single "Slam" went platinum; solo albums include Black Trash (2000).

Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones studio album released 23 April 1971, first on Rolling Stones Records with the tongue logo; recorded 1969–1970 at Olympic, Trident, Muscle Shoals, and Stargroves; Andy Warhol zipper cover.

Sticky Fingers (band)

Sticky Fingers, Australian indie-reggae-rock band formed 2008 in Newtown, Sydney; members Dylan Frost, Paddy Cornwall, Seamus Coyle, Beaker Best, Freddy Crabs; albums Caress Your Soul to Lekkerboy; ARIA number one with Westway; distinct from the Rolling Stones album.

Oct 10, 2026

Sticky prices

Sticky prices are prices of goods, services, or wages that adjust slowly to changes in supply and demand, giving monetary shocks temporary real effects on output and employment.

Sticky toffee pudding

Sticky toffee pudding, also called sticky date pudding in Australia and New Zealand, is a British baked date sponge served warm with a butter, brown sugar, and cream butterscotch sauce, popularized by the Sharrow Bay Hotel in Cumbria in the 1970s with disputed origins.

Sticky Vicky

Sticky Vicky, stage name of Victoria María Aragüés Gadea (Vicky Leyton), was a Spanish cabaret performer whose vaginal magic show ran in Benidorm for over 35 years until her 2016 retirement; she died 29 November 2023.

Stiefel manifold

The Stiefel manifold is the space of all orthonormal k-frames, or ordered sets of mutually orthogonal unit vectors, in n-dimensional space, a compact manifold named after Eduard Stiefel.

Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), Swedish journalist and author of the Millennium trilogy starring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist; co-founder of Expo, died before publication, 100 million copies sold.

Stieglitz (Mercurian crater)

Stieglitz is a 100 km wide impact crater in Borealis Planitia on Mercury, IAU-named in 2012 for American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, a fresh complex crater with asymmetric magnetic anomalies tied to its oblique impact.

Stielhandgranate

The Stielhandgranate, nicknamed the potato masher, is a series of German stick hand grenades with an explosive head on a long wooden handle, devised in 1915 and used through both world wars.

Stielhandgranate 24

The Stielhandgranate 24, also called the Model 24 or "potato masher," was the standard stick grenade of the German Army in the Second World War.

Stieltjes transform

The Stieltjes transform of a measure μ on the real line is sμ(z) = ∫ μ(dx)/(x − z), an analytic function that encodes the measure.

Sep 27, 2026

Stientje van Veldhoven

Stientje van Veldhoven (born 1973) is a Dutch D66 politician, Minister of Climate and Green Growth since 2026 and previously a state secretary and environment minister.

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band formed in 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose debut album Inflammable Material (1979) was the first independently released album to chart in the UK.

Stiff Records

Stiff Records: British independent label founded in London in July 1976 by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera with a £400 loan; released Nick Lowe's "So It Goes" and the first UK punk single, the Damned's "New Rose"; now owned by Universal Music Group.

Stiff skin syndrome

Stiff skin syndrome (SSS), also called congenital fascial dystrophy, is a rare autosomal dominant FBN1-related fibrosing skin disorder with rock-hard skin, joint contractures, and hypertrichosis from infancy, distinct from stiff-person syndrome.

Stiff upper lip

Stiff upper lip: idiom for unemotional self-control, stereotypically British. American phrase first recorded 1811, adopted in Britain after the 1870s, heyday 1870 to 1965, tied to empire, public schools, and wartime stoicism, now fading.

Stiff Upper Lip (album)

Stiff Upper Lip is AC/DC's 2000 studio album, released 28 February 2000, produced by George Young with Mike Fraser in Vancouver; a bluesy return to roots that peaked at UK number 12 and went platinum.

STIFF-FLOP

STIFF-FLOP was a four-year European research project, running from 2012 to 2015, that developed an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm for minimally invasive surgery, coordinated by King's College London.

Stiff-person syndrome

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also called stiff-man syndrome or stiff person spectrum disorder (SPSD), is a rare autoimmune neurological disorder causing trunk and limb rigidity, stimulus-triggered spasms, and falls, linked to GAD65 antibodies and often misdiagnosed.

Stiffness

Stiffness is the resistance of an object or material to elastic deformation under load: for a material it is an elastic modulus, for a component a spring rate.

Stiffness control

Stiffness control is a robot force-control method, introduced by J. Kenneth Salisbury in 1980, that makes the end effector behave like a programmable, computer-controlled spring.

Stiffness estimation from interaction

Stiffness estimation from interaction is the online identification of the stiffness of an environment, object, or human limb from forces and motions a robot measures in contact.

Stiffness of joint

Joint stiffness (stiff joints) is the sensation of limited or difficult joint motion after inactivity, a major symptom of arthritis. Inflammatory causes produce prolonged morning stiffness over 30-60 minutes; mechanical causes such as osteoarthritis produce brief stiffness under 30 minutes.

Stifone

Stifone: village of about 40 inhabitants in Narni municipality, Umbria, on the Nera river; ancient Roman river port with a shipyard, medieval mills, and Italy's first central-Italian hydroelectric plant (1892, Aldo Netti).

Stiftchenzellen

Stiftchenzellen are sensory epidermal cells of frog tadpoles described by Kölliker in 1885 and identified by electron microscopy by Whitear in 1976; they bear apical microvilli, form synaptic contacts with epidermal nerve fibres, and are proposed chemoreceptors.