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Strong interaction
The strong interaction, or strong nuclear force, is the fundamental force that binds quarks into protons and neutrons and, residually, holds atomic nuclei together; it is described by quantum chromodynamics.
Strong law of large numbers
The strong law of large numbers is the theorem that, for independent identically distributed random variables with finite expectation, sample averages converge to the expectation almost surely.
Strong programme
The strong program is a sociology of scientific knowledge program, formulated by David Bloor at Edinburgh in the 1970s, explaining true and false beliefs alike.
Strong Roots
Strong Roots is an Irish frozen plant-based food company founded by Samuel Dennigan in 2015, known for Cauliflower Hash Browns and Sweet Potato Fries, and fully acquired by McCain Foods in 2024.
Strong scaling
Strong scaling is the study of how a parallel application's performance changes as processors increase while the total problem size stays fixed, limited by Amdahl's law.
Strong subadditivity of quantum entropy
Strong subadditivity of quantum entropy (SSA) is a fundamental inequality for the von Neumann entropy of composite quantum systems, proved by Lieb and Ruskai in 1973.
Strong Ventures
Strong Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm in Los Angeles, founded by Kihong Bae and John Nahm around 2012, investing across the US and Seoul.
StrongARM
StrongARM is a family of high-performance, low-power 32-bit microprocessors implementing the ARM architecture, developed by DEC and ARM, first shipped in 1996 as the SA-110.
Strongbow (cider)
Strongbow is a British brand of dry apple cider, launched in 1960 by Hereford cider maker H.P. Bulmer and named after the knight Richard de Clare.
Strongbridge Biopharma plc
Strongbridge Biopharma plc, formerly Cortendo plc, was an Irish rare-disease biopharmaceutical company whose products included KEVEYIS for primary periodic paralysis and Recorlev for Cushing's syndrome; Xeris acquired it in 2021.
Stronger (film)
Stronger is a 2017 American biographical drama directed by David Gordon Green, with Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Stronger (Kanye West song)
"Stronger" is a 2007 Kanye West song, the second single from Graduation, built on a sample of Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"; it topped the US and UK charts.
Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼)
Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼) is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Go Kyung-pyo, Chae Soo-bin, Kim Seon-ho, and Go Won-hee, aired on KBS2 in 16 episodes.
Stronghold (2001 video game)
Stronghold (FireFly Studios' Stronghold) is a 2001 PC real-time strategy castle sim by London's Firefly Studios, blending siege combat with village management, 21-mission campaign vs the Rat, Snake, Pig, and Wolf, 8-player multiplayer.
Stronghold 4
Stronghold 4 is Firefly Studios' fourth mainline Stronghold castle-sim RTS, a medieval England prequel to the 2001 original starring Penryn of Wethel, launching on Steam December 7, 2026 in Early Access with a 22-mission campaign.
Stronghold Digital Mining
Stronghold Digital Mining was a Bitcoin mining company in Pennsylvania that powered its miners with coal refuse plants it owned, and was acquired by Bitfarms in 2025.
Strongly connected component
A strongly connected component (SCC) of a directed graph is a maximal set of vertices in which every vertex reaches every other, partitioning the graph into disjoint components.
Strongly regular graph
A strongly regular graph is a regular graph in which adjacent and non-adjacent vertex pairs have constant numbers of common neighbors, described by parameters (n, k, λ, μ).
StrongREJECT
StrongREJECT is a 2024 benchmark for evaluating jailbreak attacks on large language models, with 313 forbidden prompts and an automated evaluator that scores genuinely harmful responses.
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, the green or northern sea urchin (Echinus droebachiensis, Müller 1776), is a circumpolar arctic-boreal grazer of kelp beds, forming destructive grazing fronts and barrens, and is fished for roe.
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the purple or California purple sea urchin, is a Pacific coast echinoid from Alaska to Mexico, a 150-year developmental biology model with an 814-Mb, ~23,300-gene genome sequenced in 2006.
Strongyloides stercoralis
Strongyloides stercoralis, the threadworm, is a soil-transmitted nematode causing strongyloidiasis in an estimated 300–600 million people; its autoinfective life cycle permits lifelong infection and fatal hyperinfection under corticosteroid immunosuppression.
Strongyloidiasis
Strongyloidiasis, a soil-transmitted helminth infection caused by Strongyloides stercoralis (rarely S. fuelleborni), infects 300–600 million people; its autoinfection cycle allows lifelong infection and fatal hyperinfection in immunosuppressed patients; treated with ivermectin.
Strongylus vulgaris
Strongylus vulgaris, the horse bloodworm, is the most pathogenic equine GI helminth; larvae migrate in the cranial mesenteric artery causing verminous arteritis and intestinal infarction, and it is reemerging in Denmark and Sweden under prescription-only anthelmintic rules.
Stronnictwo Ludowe
Stronnictwo Ludowe (People's Party) was a Polish agrarian party founded in Warsaw in 1931 from a merger of three peasant parties, the main legal opposition to the Sanacja regime.
Strontianite
Strontianite is a strontium carbonate mineral (SrCO3) of the aragonite group, named in 1791 after Strontian, Scotland, its type locality. Though the richer strontium ore, it is mined less than celestite.
Strontium
Strontium, also known as Element 38, is a soft, silvery alkaline earth metal of Group 2, named after Strontian in Scotland and best known for the red its salts give fireworks.
Strontium barium niobate
Strontium barium niobate (SBN) is a lead-free ferroelectric solid solution with formula SrxBa1−xNb2O6 and a tetragonal tungsten bronze structure, valued for its exceptionally large electro-optic coefficients.
Strontium ferrite
Strontium ferrite (SrFe₁₂O₁₉) is a magnetically hard ceramic permanent-magnet material, developed by Philips in the 1950s and used in motors, loudspeakers, and other inexpensive magnets.
Strontium iridate
Strontium iridate (Sr₂IrO₄) is a layered transition-metal oxide and spin-orbit-coupled Mott insulator, antiferromagnetic below 17 K and the closest non-cuprate analog of the cuprate superconductors.