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Subic Bay
Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines: deep-water harbor and former largest US overseas naval base, converted by RA 7227 into the 670 km² Subic Bay Freeport Zone run by the SBMA, now a trade, shipbuilding, and logistics hub.
Subida al Cielo
Subida al cielo (Mexican Bus Ride) is Luis Buñuel's 1952 Mexican comedy about newlywed Oliverio's chaotic bus journey to fetch a lawyer for his dying mother, starring Lilia Prado; it competed at Cannes 1952 and won the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize.
Subir Sachdev
Subir Sachdev is a condensed matter theorist, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard, known for quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of metals without quasiparticles.
Subitizing
Subitizing, also known as subitization, is the rapid and accurate determination of the number of items in a small set, roughly four or fewer, without counting; the term was coined in 1949.
Subject (grammar)
Subject (grammar): the grammatical relation of the noun phrase controlling agreement, case, and position; distinct from agent and topic; debated across Chomskian, Relational Grammar, LFG, and RRG frameworks.
Subject-matter expert
Subject-matter expert (SME): a person with specialized, bona fide expert knowledge of a specific field or job, used in job analysis, elicitation, and design; marked by organized domain knowledge, specific automaticity, and known biases.
Subject-specific databases
Subject-specific databases are research data collections organized around one field of inquiry, such as genomics or physics, and cataloged by discipline in registries like re3data, which describes over 3,000 repositories.
Subject–verb–object word order
Subject–verb–object (SVO) word order is a basic clausal order, subject then verb then object, as in English "Sam ate yogurt". Second-most common basic order after SOV; Dryer critiques the six-way typology.
Subjective expected utility
Subjective expected utility (SEU) is a model of decision making under uncertainty in which preferences are represented as expected utility using probabilities drawn from the decision maker's own beliefs.
Subjective idealism
Subjective idealism is the view that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, formulated by George Berkeley as esse est percipi (1710). Distinguished from Kant's transcendental idealism; its Master Argument is widely judged to fail.
Subjective refraction
Subjective refraction is the assessment of refractive error by presenting lenses and using patient responses to find the best correction, the gold standard for spectacle prescription.
Subjective well-being
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a person's self-assessment of how good their life is, combining life evaluation with felt emotions, and measured by scales like the Satisfaction With Life Scale.
Subjectivism
Subjectivism is the philosophical view, opposed to objectivism, that truth or value in a domain such as ethics depends on human beliefs, attitudes, or responses rather than on mind-independent facts.
Subjugation of the Emishi under Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
The subjugation of the Emishi under Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (蝦夷征討) closed the imperial court's 37-year war against the Emishi, with decisive campaigns in 801 and 811.
Subjunctive mood
Subjunctive mood: a grammatical verb form expressing contingency, doubt, desire, or counterfactuality, contrasted with the indicative; also analyzed as irrealis. Known from English were/if-conditionals and Romance and German subjunctives.
Sublahshini
Sublahshini (சுப்லஷினி), born 2000 in Chennai, is an Indian playback singer, songwriter, and indie artist known for Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi film songs including Kissik (Pushpa 2), Golden Sparrow, Monica (Coolie), and Pottala Muttaye, plus indie hits Kaathadi and Namma Chennai.
Sublanuvio
Sublanuvio (Sublanuvium), an ancient Roman road station (statio) on the Via Appia between Aricia and Ad Sponsas, at the twentieth milestone of the Appia, near Lanuvium; known from the Peutinger map and the Geographer of Ravenna.
Sublaqueum
Sublaqueum (Latin, "under the lakes"), ancient Roman villa and settlement at modern Subiaco, Lazio: Nero's pre-AD 60 villa with three artificial lakes on the Aniene, later Benedict of Nursia's first monastic site.
Sublimation (phase transition)
Sublimation is the direct transition of a substance from solid to vapor without a liquid phase, such as dry ice becoming CO₂ gas; the reverse process is deposition.
Sublimation (psychology)
Sublimation (psychology): a Freudian defense mechanism redirecting unacceptable sexual or aggressive impulses into socially acceptable activities such as art or sport; classified as a mature defense, but direct empirical evidence is lacking.
Sublime (album)
Sublime (album): self-titled 1996 Gasoline Alley/MCA record by the Long Beach ska-punk band Sublime; released two months after Bradley Nowell's death, sold over 5 million copies, went 5x platinum, with hits 'What I Got,' 'Santeria,' and 'Wrong Way.'
Sublime (band)
Sublime: Long Beach, California ska-punk/reggae band formed 1988 by Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh; albums 40oz. to Freedom, Robbin' the Hood, self-titled 1996 (over 5 million copies), and 2026's Until the Sun Explodes with Jakob Nowell.
Sublime (philosophy)
The sublime is an aesthetic concept of overwhelming greatness, defined in the 1st-century Greek treatise On the Sublime and developed by Burke in 1757 and Kant in 1790.
Sublime Porte
The Sublime Porte (Bâb-ı Âli, "high gate") was the Ottoman central government's Istanbul administrative complex, seat of the Grand Vizier and ministries, and a diplomatic metonym for the Ottoman government until 1922.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a proprietary, cross-platform text editor for code and prose, developed by Sublime HQ, extensible through Python plugins, and free to evaluate with no time limit.
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome was a Long Beach, California rock band formed in 2009 by Sublime's Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh with singer Rome Ramirez, renamed for legal reasons; it released four albums, 2011-2024, before ending as Sublime reformed with Jakob Nowell.
Subliminal stimuli
Subliminal stimuli are inputs presented below conscious perception, typically via brief masked flashes under 50 ms. They produce modest, replicable priming effects extending to semantic processing, while popular claims about subliminal advertising and self-help tapes lack support.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus, also known as Veritas Ipsa, is a 1537 papal bull of Pope Paul III declaring the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to be true humans who must not be enslaved.
Sublingual administration
Sublingual administration places a drug under the tongue for absorption through oral mucosa into systemic circulation, bypassing hepatic first-pass metabolism; used for nitroglycerin, buprenorphine, fentanyl, and nicotine.
Sublingual immunotherapy
Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is an allergy treatment in which allergen tablets or drops held under the tongue desensitize patients with allergic rhinitis or asthma, an alternative to injected immunotherapy.