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Submergence (film)

Submergence (2017), Wim Wenders romantic thriller adapted by Erin Dignam from J.M. Ledgard's novel, starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander; premiered at TIFF, US release April 2018, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Submersible

A submersible, or submersible craft, is a self-propelled underwater craft that carries personnel while operating below the surface and surfacing under its own buoyancy control.

Submersible pump

A submersible pump, also called an electric submersible pump, is a pump with a sealed motor that operates fully submerged in the liquid it moves.

Submesoscale ocean process

A submesoscale ocean process is an ocean current or circulation feature between mesoscale eddies and small-scale turbulence, with horizontal scales of roughly 1 to 10 km and time scales of hours to days.

Submillimeter Array

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an eight-antenna radio interferometer near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaiʻi that observes at submillimeter wavelengths and joined the Event Horizon Telescope's first black hole images.

Submillimeter galaxy

A submillimeter galaxy (SMG) is a very luminous, dust-obscured star-forming galaxy detected at submillimeter wavelengths, typically found at high redshift and contributing strongly to cosmic star formation.

Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite, or SWAS, was a NASA Small Explorer space telescope launched in 1998 to measure water vapor and molecular oxygen in interstellar clouds.

Submission (TV series)

Submission is a 2016 American Showtime erotic drama mini-series, six episodes, created by Paul Fishbein and Jacky St. James, starring Ashlynn Yennie, Justin Berti, and Raylin Joy; aired May 12 to June 16, 2016, TV-MA, IMDb 5.3.

Submission wrestling

Submission wrestling, also called submission grappling or no-gi, is a clinch-and-ground combat sport format aiming to force a tap-out via submission holds, drawing on catch wrestling, luta livre, BJJ, judo, and sambo; its flagship event is the ADCC World Championship, founded 1998.

Submissiveness

Submissiveness (ICD-11 MB28.H): a behavioral tendency to adapt one's actions to others' real or perceived wishes against one's own interests; studied as a trait linked to social anxiety, depression, and distress intolerance.

Submodular set function

A submodular set function assigns real numbers to subsets of a finite set with diminishing returns; its Lovász extension is convex, and it can be minimized in strongly polynomial time.

Submotion Orchestra

Submotion Orchestra is a British seven-piece live electronic band from Leeds, formed in 2009, blending dubstep-influenced bass music, jazz, soul, and dub around vocalist Ruby Wood.

Submucosa

Submucosa: the layer of loose connective tissue beneath the mucosa of the digestive, respiratory, urinary, and genital tracts, carrying vessels, lymphatics, nerves, Meissner's plexus, and regional glands such as Brunner glands.

Submucosal cleft palate

Submucosal cleft palate (SMCP, ORPHA:155878) is a congenital cleft palate variant with midline soft palate muscle diastasis under intact mucosa, diagnosed by Calnan's triad of bifid uvula, zona pellucida, and hard palate notch; occult forms lack the triad.

Subnautica

Subnautica is an open world underwater survival game by Unknown Worlds set on planet 4546B; early access 2014, full release January 2018, over 5 million sold, followed by Below Zero and Subnautica 2.

Subnautica 2

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure by Unknown Worlds, the sequel to Subnautica, set on a new alien ocean world with 4-player co-op. It entered Early Access May 14, 2026 ($29.99) after a Krafton dispute and Delaware ruling reinstating CEO Ted Gill.

Subnautica: Below Zero

Subnautica: Below Zero is Unknown Worlds' arctic survival sequel set on planet 4546B, starring scientist Robin Ayou; early access January 30, 2019, full release May 14, 2021, over 2.8 million copies sold.

Subnet

A subnet, or subnetwork, is a sub-section of a single IP network, defined by a subnet mask or CIDR prefix and used to segment networks in data centers and cloud platforms.

Subnitride

A subnitride is a metal-rich, nitrogen-poor nitride in which nitrogen occupies interstitial sites of a bonded metal sublattice, including electrides such as Ca2N where excess electrons act as anions.

Subobject classifier

A subobject classifier is an object Ω in a category that classifies subobjects via pullbacks, generalizing characteristic functions of subsets; it is a defining axiom of a topos.

Suboccipital nerve

The suboccipital nerve is the dorsal ramus of the C1 spinal nerve, a mainly motor nerve supplying the four suboccipital muscles and semispinalis capitis within the suboccipital triangle alongside the vertebral artery.

Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे)

Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे), born 1975 in Pune, is a Marathi actor, director, and producer known for Balgandharva, Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush, and directing Katyar Kaljat Ghusali (2015).

Subodh Ghosh

Subodh Ghosh (সুবোধ ঘোষ; 1909–1980) was a Bengali short-story writer, novelist, and journalist at Anandabazar Patrika, best known for "Ajantrik" and the 1944 novel Tilanjali.

Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta is an Indian contemporary artist, born 1964 in Bihar, whose monumental sculptures from stainless-steel utensils address migration, class, and social transformation in India.

Subodh Mhaisalkar

Subodh G. Mhaisalkar is a Singapore-based materials scientist and engineer at Nanyang Technological University known for perovskite solar cells, perovskite LEDs, and printable electronics, and executive director of its Energy Research Institute.

Subodh Uniyal

Subodh Uniyal is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a cabinet minister in Uttarakhand, holding the forest, election, and medical health portfolios.

Subodh Verma

Subodh Verma is a Canadian cardiac surgeon-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and a University of Toronto professor known for leadership in global heart failure and semaglutide trials.

Subor

Subor (小霸王, "Little Overlord") is a Chinese education-electronics brand founded in 1987 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, whose Famicom-clone learning machines held about 80% of China's domestic market in the mid-1990s.

Subordinator (mathematics)

A subordinator is a nondecreasing Lévy process taking values in [0, ∞), serving as a random clock; Bochner introduced subordination in 1949, first applied in finance by Clark in 1973.

Subotica (Суботица)

Subotica (Суботица, Szabadka) is a city in far northern Serbia on the Hungarian border, in Vojvodina, first mentioned in 1391 and famous for over 100 Art Nouveau buildings, including the 1908–1910 City Hall and 1902 Synagogue by Komor and Jakab.