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Strait
Strait: a narrow water passage connecting two larger bodies of water, also called a strait or narrows. Formed by tectonics, erosion, or sea-level rise; major straits like Hormuz and Malacca are critical oil and trade chokepoints under UNCLOS transit passage.
Strait of Belle Isle
Strait of Belle Isle: strait between northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador, the Gulf of St. Lawrence's north entrance; about 78 miles long, 9.2 miles wide, ice-free roughly May/June to late December.
Strait of Dover
Strait of Dover (Pas de Calais): 30-km-wide eastern end of the English Channel linking it to the North Sea. Macrotidal, 3–9 m range, first IMO traffic separation scheme (1967), Channel Tunnel, Europe's busiest ferry port.
Strait of Georgia
Strait of Georgia (Georgia Strait), a semi-enclosed sea between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia, part of the Salish Sea; named by Vancouver in 1792 for King George III, fed mainly by the Fraser River.
Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق)
Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق), sea passage between Spain and Morocco connecting Atlantic and Mediterranean. 58–60 km long, 14 km wide at Tarifa; two-layer exchange of ~0.8 Sv each; 110,000–120,000 vessels yearly; planned 38.5 km Spain–Morocco rail tunnel.
Strait of Gibraltar crossing
The Strait of Gibraltar crossing, also known as the Gibraltar bridge, is a proposed rail tunnel linking Spain and Morocco, planned at about 42 km long.
Strait of Hormuz (تنگه هرمز)
The Strait of Hormuz (تنگه هرمز) is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and the world's leading oil chokepoint.
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Strait of Juan de Fuca: sea passage between Vancouver Island and Washington's Olympic Peninsula, named 1787 by Barkley after the Greek pilot Juan de Fuca; main Pacific gateway to the Salish Sea with estuarine two-layer flow and about 8,300 deep-draft vessel transits yearly.
Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan (Estrecho de Magallanes) is a 350-mile passage at South America's southern tip separating Patagonia from Tierra del Fuego, first transited by Magellan in 1520.
Strait of Malacca
Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, links the Indian and Pacific Oceans and is the world's largest oil chokepoint, carrying 23.2 million b/d, about 29% of seaborne oil, in 1H25.
Strait of Messina
Strait of Messina, also Fiume di Messina, the 3-km-wide passage between Sicily and Calabria linking the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas, known for 3 m/s tidal currents, Scylla and Charybdis, and the planned €13.5 billion suspension bridge.
Strait of Messina Bridge
The Strait of Messina Bridge is a planned suspension bridge linking Messina in Sicily with Calabria, designed to carry the world's longest suspension span at 3,300 meters.
Strait of Tartary
Strait of Tartary (Tatarskiy Proliv, Mamiya Strait): long strait separating Sakhalin from the Russian mainland, linking the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan; narrowest part Nevelskoy Strait, 7.5 km wide, 10 m deep, frozen in winter.
Straitjacket
Straitjacket (camisole, strait-waistcoat): a restraint garment with overlong sleeves crossed and buckled behind the back, invented in France around 1770 for psychiatric restraint, later an escapology staple and cultural symbol of insanity.
Straits dollar
The Straits dollar was the currency of the Straits Settlements, Malay States, and British Borneo, divided into 100 cents, from the late nineteenth century until 1939.
Straits of Florida
Straits of Florida: channels between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas linking the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic; the Florida Current, headwaters of the Gulf Stream, carries about 32 Sv northward through them.
Straits of Mackinac
The Straits of Mackinac are the open-water channel connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, making them hydrologically one lake, the world's largest by surface area; site of the Mackinac Bridge, colonial Michilimackinac, and the disputed Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.
Straits of Tiran (مضيق تيران)
Straits of Tiran (مضيق تيران): narrow strait between Sinai and Tiran Island connecting the Gulf of Aqaba to the Red Sea; sole sea access to Eilat and Aqaba, closed by Egypt in 1967, international waterway under the 1979 Egypt-Israel treaty.
Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements (1826–1946) was a British colony grouping Singapore, Penang, and Malacca; a fourth presidency of British India, a Crown Colony from 1 April 1867, dissolved in 1946.
Stramenopile
Stramenopiles, also called heterokonts, are a major eukaryote clade in SAR defined by tripartite mastigoneme hairs on the anterior flagellum, spanning diatoms, kelp, oomycetes, Blastocystis, and heterotrophic flagellates in Bigyra and Gyrista.
Strand displacement amplification
Strand displacement amplification (SDA) is an isothermal DNA amplification method, reported in 1992, that uses a nicking enzyme and a strand-displacing polymerase to copy a target sequence exponentially at a single constant temperature.
Strand displacement reaction
A strand displacement reaction is a nucleic acid reaction in which an invading single-stranded DNA or RNA molecule binds a complementary duplex and displaces one of its prebound strands.
STRAND Festival
STRAND Festival, also known as Strand Fesztivál, is a major Hungarian music festival held each August in Zamárdi on Lake Balaton, launched in 2013 and drawing record crowds of more than 94,000 in 2026.
Strand swamp
Strand swamp (also cypress strand) is a Florida natural community: a shallow, elongated, forested wetland channel dominated by bald cypress, with 200-300 day hydroperiod, peat-over-limestone soils, and rare fire, best exemplified by the Fakahatchee Strand.
Strand Theatre (Manhattan)
Strand Theatre (Manhattan), also the Mark Strand and later Warner Theatre, was America's first movie palace, a 2,989-seat 1914 Thomas Lamb theater at Broadway and 47th Street, demolished in 1987.
Strand Therapeutics
Strand Therapeutics is a Boston biotechnology company, founded in 2017 by MIT synthetic biologists Jake Becraft and Tasuku Kitada, that develops programmable mRNA cancer therapies.
Strand, London
The Strand, London: historic central London street between Charing Cross and Fleet Street, once the main street of Lundenwic, lined with Somerset House, King's College London, and Wren and Gibbs churches.
Strandbeest
Strandbeest, Dutch for "beach animal," is a series of wind-powered walking kinetic sculptures created since 1990 by Dutch artist Theo Jansen, built mostly from PVC tubing and moved by a leg linkage he designed.
Stranded (album)
Stranded (1973) is Roxy Music's third studio album, first after Brian Eno's departure, first UK number-one for the band, with Eddie Jobson joining and Ferry sharing songwriting with Mackay and Manzanera.
Stranded asset
A stranded asset is an asset that suffers an unanticipated or premature write-down or devaluation, chiefly fossil fuel reserves, power plants, and infrastructure that lose value under climate policy and shifting demand.