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Strigoi
In Romanian folklore, a strigoi (plural strigoi; female strigoaică) is the soul of a living or dead person that takes animal or spectral form at night to attack people.
STRIGOI (group)
Strigoi is a British death metal and crust band from England, formed in 2018 by Paradise Lost guitarist Gregor Mackintosh and bassist Chris Casket, formerly of Vallenfyre.
Strigolactone
Strigolactones are carotenoid-derived plant hormones, established in 2008, that inhibit shoot branching and, when exuded by roots, attract mycorrhizal fungi and trigger parasitic weed germination.
Striim
Striim (pronounced "stream"), founded 2012 as WebAction by GoldenGate Software alumni including Ali Kutay, is a Palo Alto real-time data integration platform using log-based CDC and TQL streaming SQL, sold as Striim Cloud or self-managed software.
Strike (attack)
Strike (attack): a percussive combat technique using fist, elbow, knee, shin, foot, or head. Also called striking in boxing, kickboxing, and Muay Thai; distinguished by measured forces up to 9015 N and ruleset-dependent weapons.
Strike (bowling)
Strike (bowling): knocking down all ten pins on the first delivery of a tenpin frame, marked X. Scores 10 plus the next two balls; twelve straight strikes give a perfect 300. Ideal delivery hits the headpin about 6.5 cm off-center at a 4–6° entry angle.
Strike (group)
Strike is a Brazilian punk rock band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, fronted by Marcelo Mancini. Its style is melodic punk hardcore blending electronic, hip-hop, and dance elements.
Strike (TV series)
Strike (C.B. Strike in the US) is a BBC/Cinemax crime drama adapting J.K. Rowling's Cormoran Strike novels written as Robert Galbraith, starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger, one novel per series from The Cuckoo's Calling (2017) onward.
Strike 3
Strike 3 Holdings, LLC: Delaware-based American adult film studio (Black, Tushy, Vixen, Tushy Raw, Deeper brands) founded 2015 by Greg Lansky; known as the most prolific US federal copyright lawsuit filer, with 20,000+ BitTorrent infringement suits since 2017.
Strike action
Strike action, also known as a labor strike or work stoppage, is a temporary stoppage of work by workers to enforce demands, express grievances, or support other workers.
Strike and dip
Strike and dip are the two measurements defining the orientation of planar geological features such as bedding planes and faults, and are fundamental to geologic mapping.
Strike and Kill
Strike and Kill is DevilDriver's eleventh studio album, released July 10, 2026 on Napalm Records; 13 tracks, about 50 minutes, with Dez Fafara, returning bassist Jon Miller, and guitarists Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold.
Strike Back (TV series)
Strike Back is a British action series based on Chris Ryan's 2007 SAS novel, airing 2010-2020 on Sky1 and Cinemax. It follows Section 20, first with John Porter (Richard Armitage), then the Scott-Stonebridge duo, later a new cast.
Strike Back: Legacy
Strike Back: Legacy is the fifth series of the action drama Strike Back, airing 10 episodes on Sky One from 3 June to 29 July 2015. It stars Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, and Michelle Yeoh as villain Li-Na of North Korea's Office 39.
Strike Back: Project Dawn
Strike Back: Project Dawn is the 2011 second season of Strike Back, a ten-episode Sky1/Cinemax co-production in which Stonebridge and ex-Delta Force operative Scott hunt terrorist Latif after John Porter's kidnapping.
Strike Back: Retribution
Strike Back: Retribution is the sixth season of the action series Strike Back (Cinemax season 5), a 2017-2018 revamp with a new cast starring Warren Brown, Daniel MacPherson, Roxanne McKee, and Alin Sumarwata, following the restored Section 20 hunting terrorist Omair Idrisi.
Strike Up the Band
Strike Up the Band (1940 MGM musical, distinct from the Gershwin Broadway show) stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland raising funds to reach Paul Whiteman's Chicago band contest; Busby Berkeley directs, Oscar for Best Sound.
Strike Witches (ストライクウィッチーズ)
Strike Witches (ストライクウィッチーズ) is a Japanese franchise by Fumikane Shimada about magic-wielding girls in Striker Units fighting the Neuroi, notably the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, spanning the 2008 GONZO TV anime, films, and the World Witches Series.
Strike-slip fault
A strike-slip fault is a fault where two sides slide past each other horizontally, occurring as transform plate boundaries or within continents, notably the San Andreas Fault.
Strikebreaker
A strikebreaker, also called a scab, is a person who works in place of striking employees, legal in the US under the 1938 Mackay Radio decision.
Strikeforce (mixed martial arts)
Strikeforce: American MMA promotion founded by Scott Coker in 1992 as a kickboxing brand, converted to MMA in 2006, became the No. 2 U.S. promotion, bought by Zuffa in March 2011, and closed after its final show on January 12, 2013.
Strikeout
Strikeout (SO, K): baseball out recorded on three strikes; called strike added 1858, four-strike year 1887, uncaught third strike lets batter run; MLB K rate 11.4% (1955) to 22.2% (2025).
Striker (band)
Striker is a Canadian heavy metal band from Edmonton, Alberta, formed in 2007. It won a Juno Award in 2020 for its album Play to Win.
Striker Venture Partners
Striker Venture Partners is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2025 by former CRV partners, investing $5–30 million in pre-revenue AI and cybersecurity startups.
Striking clock
A striking clock is a mechanical clock that automatically sounds a bell, gong, or chime to count the hours, using a separate gear train from the timekeeping one.
Striking Distance
Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller directed by Rowdy Herrington, starring Bruce Willis as a Pittsburgh detective demoted to river patrol, with Sarah Jessica Parker in a supporting role.
Striking the colors
Striking the colors, also striking the flag, is a warship's lowering of its national ensign to signal surrender, legally dated from the moment of lowering; distinct from a white flag of truce at sea.
Striking Vipers
Striking Vipers is the Black Mirror season 5 premiere, written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris, released June 5, 2019. Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II play friends whose VR fighting-game avatars, Lance and Roxette, have in-game sex.
Strimzi
Strimzi is an open-source CNCF incubating project (Sandbox 2019, Incubating 2024), developed by Red Hat in 2017, that runs Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes and OpenShift via the operator pattern, managing brokers, topics, users, Connect, and MirrorMaker as custom resources.
Strindberg (Mercurian crater)
Strindberg is a 189-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 53.41°N, 136.67°E, named in 1979 for Swedish playwright August Strindberg; its lava-flooded floor and inner-ring hollows in low-reflectance material were imaged by Mariner 10 and MESSENGER.