All articles starting with S

Storage tube

A storage tube is a cathode ray tube that stores information as electric charge, used as early computer memory or to hold images without refreshing.

Storage Wars is an A&E reality series, premiering December 2010, following buyers such as Dave Hester and Darrell Sheets bidding on repossessed self-storage lockers; notable for high ratings, spin-offs, and the Dave Hester staging lawsuit.

StorageTek

StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation) was an American data storage company in Louisville, Colorado, known for IBM-compatible tape drives, founded in 1969 and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

Storativity

Storativity, also called the storage coefficient, is a dimensionless measure of the water volume an aquifer releases or absorbs per unit surface area per unit change in hydraulic head.

Oct 20, 2026

Storavan

Storavan (Buovđđahávva) is a large regulated lake, about 185 km², in Lapland, Norrbotten, Sweden, third largest in the Skellefteälven system after Uddjaure and Hornavan; with Uddjaur it forms a 780 million m³ hydropower reservoir regulated since the 1930s, with Bergnäs power station at its dam.

Sep 29, 2026

Store and forward

Store and forward is a message-switching technique in which data is held in its entirety at an intermediate node and forwarded when a link becomes available, with no direct end-to-end path.

Store buffer

A store buffer is a per-core processor queue that holds stores before they reach the cache, allowing the core to keep executing; it permits x86 store-load reordering.

Store Koldewey

Store Koldewey ("Big Koldewey"), also Koldewey Island, is an uninhabited 90 km-long island off northeastern Greenland, largest of the Koldewey Islands, separating Dove Bugt from the Greenland Sea; named after Karl Koldewey of the 1869–70 German expedition.

Store Kongshøj

Store Kongshøj, a Danish Bronze Age burial mound in Vamdrup parish, southern Jutland; Early Bronze Age oak-coffin barrow (c. 1385 BC) excavated 1862, yielding a bronze dagger; also a Pleiades gazetteer ancient place.

Store Mosse National Park

Store Mosse National Park: Sweden's largest active raised bog, 7,682 ha in Småland 15 km NE of Värnamo, national park since 1982, Ramsar site 20, Natura 2000 SE0310020, with Lake Kävsjön birdlife and 2023–2025 restoration.

Oct 10, 2026

Store of value

A store of value is an asset that retains purchasing power over time, one of the canonical functions of money alongside the medium of exchange and unit of account.

Store-Dal

Store-Dal (Store-Dal Gravfelt) is a large Iron Age barrow cemetery at Skjeberg, Østfold, eastern Norway, near Hunn; about 184 mounds, Roman period inhumation mound 6 with a gold berlock, and a Viking Age kerbstone mound 145 imitating it.

Storebox

Storebox is a Vienna-based self-storage and micro-logistics company, founded in 2016, that converts unused ground-floor properties into smart storage cabins and parcel pick-up points across Europe.

Stored Communications Act

The Stored Communications Act (SCA), Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is a 1986 US federal statute governing access to stored communications and subscriber records held by service providers.

Stored procedure

A stored procedure is a subroutine written in a procedural extension of SQL and stored inside a database server, executed there on request instead of ad hoc client statements.

Stored program control

Stored program control (SPC) is the telephone switching architecture in which a processor executes a program in memory to manage call setup, routing, billing, and features.

Stored-food and grain mite dermatitis

Stored-food and grain mite dermatitis is skin inflammation caused by mites infesting grain, flour, and hay, producing occupational rashes such as grocer's itch, copra itch, and straw itch.

Stored-product mite control

Stored-product mite control is the detection and management of mite pests, chiefly the flour mite and mold mite, in stored grain, flour, cheese, dried fruit, and pet food.

Sep 19, 2026

StoreDot

StoreDot is an Israeli battery-technology company founded in 2012 in Herzliya by Doron Myersdorf that develops extreme-fast-charging EV cells targeting 100 miles of range in five minutes of charging.

Storefront (architecture)

A storefront is the ground-floor, non-load-bearing glazed frontage of a commercial building, typically an aluminum system lighter than curtain wall, used for retail and entrances.

Storegga Slide

The Storegga Slide is a giant submarine landslide off mid-Norway, whose failure about 8,200 years ago generated a tsunami that struck coasts around the North Sea.

Storengy

Storengy is a French underground natural gas storage company and ENGIE subsidiary operating sites in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, with 136 TWh of storage capacity across 21 European sites.

Storey

A storey, spelled story in American English, is a level of a building with a usable floor, used mainly when counting a building's levels, as in a 43-storey tower.

Storfjorden

Storfjorden (Svalbard), also called Wybe Jansz Water, is a large sea area between Spitsbergen and Edgeøya, Barentsøya, and Tusenøyane; a polynya producing dense brine-enriched bottom water, site of Norway's largest recorded earthquake (6.2, 2008).

Storfund

Storfund is a London fintech founded in 2018 by former investment bankers George Brintalos and Akbar Ahsan that pays e-commerce marketplace sellers 80% of each day's shipments immediately, repaid by the marketplace.

Storge (στοργή)

Storge (στοργή) is the Ancient Greek word for natural, instinctive family affection, from the verb stergo; rare in antiquity, absent as a simple noun from the New Testament, and popularized by C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves.

Oct 20, 2026

Storgosia

Storgosia (Dianensium), Roman road station and Late Antique fortress near Pleven, Bulgaria, in Kaylaka Park on the Oescus–Philippopolis road; 4th-century walled settlement of 31,000 m² with a large Early Christian basilica, destroyed by Slavic invasions in the 6th–7th centuries.

Stori

Stori is a Mexico City fintech founded in 2018, led by co-founder and CEO Bin Chen, offering credit cards and deposit accounts to Mexico's underserved, credit-thin population.

Stories (Avicii album)

Stories is the second and final lifetime studio album by Swedish DJ Avicii (Tim Bergling), released October 2, 2015; 14 songs, 54 minutes, with singles Waiting For Love, For A Better Day, and Pure Grinding, and guests including Chris Martin and Zac Brown.