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Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees is a market town and administrative center in north east England, divided by the River Tees, known for its wide High Street market chartered in 1310.
Stockton, California
Stockton, California: county seat of San Joaquin County on the San Joaquin River delta, founded 1849 by Charles M. Weber, incorporated 1850, home of the first inland seaport in California (1933), population about 324,600.
Stockwell transform
The Stockwell transform, or S-transform, is a time-frequency analysis method introduced in 1996 that applies a frequency-dependent Gaussian window, used widely in seismology and power systems.
StockX
StockX is a Detroit-based online marketplace for sneakers, apparel, and collectibles, launched in 2016, that matches buyers and sellers through stock-market-style bids with authentication of items.
Stoclet House
Stoclet House (Palais Stoclet, Stocletpaleis), Brussels mansion built 1905–1911 by Josef Hoffmann for banker Adolphe Stoclet; Vienna Secession Gesamtkunstwerk with Klimt's Stoclet Frieze; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009, closed to the public.
Stoddart (Mercurian crater)
Stoddart is a 155-km-wide peak ring basin on Mercury near the equator, named by the IAU on 26 August 2024 after New Zealand painter Margaret Olrog Stoddart and imaged by BepiColombo's fourth flyby.
Stoffel Vandoorne
Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgian racing driver born 1992 in Kortrijk; 2015 GP2 champion, McLaren F1 driver 2017-2018, 2021-22 Formula E World Champion with Mercedes, now Peugeot WEC driver and Aston Martin F1 reserve.
Stöfler (lunar crater)
Stöfler is a 129.87-km-wide impact crater in the Moon's southern nearside highlands at 41.24°S, 5.93°E, IAU-named in 1935 for German astronomer Johann Stöfler, with 19 lettered satellite craters.
Stoglav
The Stoglav (Стоглав, "Hundred Chapters") was the Russian church council held in Moscow in 1551 under Tsar Ivan IV, which issued a code of one hundred chapters regulating church life.
Stoglav Council
The Stoglav Council (Стоглавый собор) was a Russian Orthodox church council held in Moscow in 1551, presided over by Metropolitan Macarius with Tsar Ivan IV participating.
Stoic allegory
Stoic allegory is the Stoic practice of interpreting Greek myth and poetry as containing hidden physical and ethical truths, made into a systematic method by Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus.
Stoic philosophers
Stoic philosophers are the thinkers of the school founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens around 300 BCE, named after the Stoa Poikile. Key figures include Chrysippus, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius; the system spans physics, logic, and ethics.
Stoichiometric coefficient
A stoichiometric coefficient is the number in front of a chemical formula in a balanced chemical equation, stating the relative moles of that substance that react or form.
Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry is the branch of chemistry that deals with the quantitative relationships between reactants and products in a reaction, as fixed by the coefficients of a balanced equation.
Stoicism
Stoicism: Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium c. 300 BCE in Athens at the Stoa Poikile; teaches virtue as the only good, apatheia, and living according to nature; phases from early Stoa through Roman Stoics Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.
Stojan Novaković
Stojan Novaković (Стојан Новаковић) was a Serbian historian, philologist, and politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Serbia and is regarded as a founder of modern Serbian historiography.
Stojan Protić
Stojan Protić was a Serbian politician and journalist who co-founded the Serbian Radical Party and served as the first prime minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City F.C. (The Potters), Stoke-on-Trent club founded 1863 as Stoke Ramblers, Football League founder member 1888, 1972 League Cup winners, bet365 Stadium, Championship side owned by John Coates.
Stoke Hill
Stoke Hill: name shared by an Exeter, Devon hill with the scheduled Stoke Hill Camp Iron Age hillfort, a listed-building street in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, an Ipswich rail tunnel site, and an Oundle terrace.
Stoke Mandeville
Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire village and hospital, birthplace of the Paralympics: Dr Ludwig Guttmann's 1948 archery games for spinal-injury patients became the Stoke Mandeville Games, then the Paralympic Games (Rome 1960).
Stoke Newington
Stoke Newington, a historic district of the London Borough of Hackney, north-east London; Domesday 'Neutone' (1086), parish founded 1314, metropolitan borough 1899-1965, now a conservation area with Clissold Park and Abney Park.
Stoke Space
Stoke Space is an American aerospace company founded in 2019 in Kent, Washington by former Blue Origin engineers Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman, developing the fully reusable Nova rocket.
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent, the Potteries, is a West Midlands unitary city federated from six pottery towns in 1910 (city status 1925), with about 258,400 residents, a declining ceramics industry, and contested regeneration.
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture (1941–1998), Trinidadian-born American civil rights activist, SNCC chairman from 1966, popularizer of the slogan "Black Power," Lowndes County Freedom Organization organizer, later Pan-Africanist in Guinea.
Stoker (film)
Stoker (2013) is Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, a gothic psychological thriller written by Wentworth Miller, starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew Goode; released by Fox Searchlight, it grossed $12 million worldwide.
Stokes drift
Stokes drift is the net mean velocity a fluid parcel acquires in the direction of wave propagation, first described by George Gabriel Stokes in his 1847 paper on water waves.
Stokes flow
Stokes flow, or creeping flow, is the flow of a viscous fluid at very low Reynolds number, described by the linear Stokes equations solved by George Stokes in 1851.
Stokes parameters
The Stokes parameters are four quantities, I, Q, U, and V, introduced by George Gabriel Stokes in 1852 that describe the intensity and polarization of light.
Stokes solver
A Stokes solver is a numerical method for computing velocity and pressure fields in slow, viscous, incompressible flow, used in biological, suspension, and mantle convection simulations.
Stokes–Darcy model
The Stokes–Darcy model couples free-fluid flow, governed by the Stokes equations, with flow through a porous medium, governed by Darcy's law, linked by interface conditions on mass, forces, and tangential velocity.