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Summerwater
Summerwater: a 2020 Sarah Moss novel and a six-part Channel 4 (2025, Acorn TV May 25, 2026) drama set over one rainy day at a lochside Scottish holiday park, ending in a fire and a devastating climax.
Summerween
Summerween, a blend of summer and Halloween, is an informal mid-year Halloween celebration coined in the 2012 Gravity Falls episode "Summerween" and popularized from 2024 onward by TikTok trends and early Halloween retail from Walmart, Michaels, and Home Depot.
Summis desiderantes affectibus
Summis desiderantes affectibus, 1484 papal bull of Pope Innocent VIII favoring witch trials, associated with Kramer and Sprenger's Malleus maleficarum (1487) and the canon-law inquisitorial procedure later codified in the Carolina of 1532.
Summit (meeting)
Summit (meeting): leaders' diplomacy, also called summitry or summit diplomacy. A meeting of heads of state or government; the term comes from Churchill's 1950 "parley at the summit." Spans bilateral, G7/G20, NATO, and ad hoc peace conferences.
Summit (supercomputer)
Summit, also known as OLCF-4 or IBM Summit, was an IBM-built supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that debuted in June 2018 as the world's fastest supercomputer.
Summit Camp
Summit Camp, or Summit Station, is the NSF-funded year-round U.S. research station near the apex of the Greenland Ice Sheet at 3,210 m, established 1989 for the GISP2 ice core, operated by Battelle ARO, distinct from same-named places in Nevada, Idaho, and Pennsylvania.
Summit Carbon Solutions
Summit Carbon Solutions, also known as Summit Carbon Holdings, is an Iowa carbon capture company founded in 2020 that pipes CO2 from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage.
Summit County, Ohio, United States
Summit County, Ohio: northeastern Ohio county with county seat Akron, formed March 3, 1840 from Medina, Stark, and Portage counties and named for the Ohio and Erie Canal's Portage Summit; fourth most populous Ohio county, about 538,000 residents.
Summit Entertainment
Summit Entertainment, LLC, founded 1993 as a foreign sales company, became a full studio in 2007 and produced the Twilight Saga and The Hurt Locker; Lionsgate acquired it January 13, 2012 for $412.5 million.
Summit for Democracy
Summit for Democracy: U.S.-initiated series of gatherings of government, civil society, and private sector leaders begun by Biden in December 2021 (110 invitees, $424 million initiative), followed by 2023 co-hosted and 2024 Seoul summits.
Summit FSRU
Summit FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit off Moheshkhali, Bangladesh, the country's second LNG import terminal, delivering about 500 million cubic feet of gas daily.
Summit League
The Summit League is an NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1982 as the Mid-Continent Conference, rebranded in 2007, headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with eight full members, 19 sports, and Denver departing in 2026.
Summit Partners
Summit Partners is a Boston, Massachusetts-based growth equity firm founded in 1984 that invests in profitable growth-stage technology and healthcare companies, managing more than $46 billion in assets.
Summit Partners Credit
Summit Partners Credit is the private credit affiliate of Summit Partners, a growth-equity firm founded in 1984, based in Boston and offering credit funds since 2011.
Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity
Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity is the European growth equity fund program of Summit Partners, run from London through Luxembourg-based SCSp funds for Europe-based companies.
Summit Peak Ventures
Summit Peak Ventures, formerly Bay Capital Ventures, is a Fort Worth, Texas venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Apurva Mehta and Patrick O'Connor, using a barbell strategy of fund partnerships and direct co-investments.
Summit Power International
Summit Power International, part of the Summit Group founded by Muhammed Aziz Khan, is a Singapore-incorporated company that develops and operates power plants and LNG terminals in Bangladesh.
Summit Resort
Summit Resort (新社莊園, Xinshe Castle), a European castle-themed leisure farm opened 1 July 2005 in Xinshe District, Taichung, Taiwan; 500–860 m elevation, lake, waterfall, chateau restaurant, NT$350 adult admission.
Summit Series
The 1972 Summit Series, an eight-game Canada–USSR ice hockey series (Суперсерия), was won 4–3–1 by Canada on Paul Henderson's goal with 34 seconds left in Game 8 in Moscow, the first meeting of NHL professionals and the Soviet national team.
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is a city in Union County, New Jersey, about 25 miles west of New York City, with about 23,300 residents, NJ Transit Midtown Direct rail service, and a 2026 court-approved affordable housing plan covering roughly 532 units.
Summit1g
Summit1g (Jaryd Lazar), American Twitch variety streamer and former semi-pro CS:GO player; streaming since 2012, most-followed Twitch channel in 2018, 6.4M followers, peak 310,998 viewers.
Summits of the Americas
The Summits of the Americas are periodic meetings of the heads of state and government of the Western Hemisphere, convened since 1994 to address political, economic, and security challenges collectively.
Summits on the Air
Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an amateur radio award program, launched in 2002, that awards points to operators transmitting from summits and to those who contact them.
Summoning to the Bier
Summoning to the Bier (Tetemre hívás) is an 1877 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany, built on the old legal custom of summoning suspects to a corpse.
Summons
Summons: a court document notifying a defendant of a lawsuit and the deadline to respond; also called writ of summons or claim form. Served with the complaint; nonresponse risks default judgment.
Summons of the Soul
Summons of the Soul (Zhaohun) is a poem in the ancient Chinese Chu Ci anthology that imitates the rite of calling a wandering soul home.
Summum bonum
Summum bonum, Latin for "the highest good," is Cicero's ethical term for the supreme end of human action. Ancient schools defined it variously (pleasure, virtue, eudaimonia); Augustine and Aquinas identified it with God; Kant joined virtue and happiness.
Summuntorium
Summuntorium, also Submuntorium, a Roman military site at Burghöfe, Mertingen, Bavaria, in Raetia about 30 km north of Augsburg; occupied from the early 40s AD to the 5th century, with a Tetrarchic stone fort and a vicus.
Summus P(o)eninus
Summus P(o)eninus, the Roman name of the Great St. Bernard Pass summit (2,473 m) and its sanctuary of Jupiter Poeninus, with a Flavian temple, about 52 bronze votive tablets, and a mansio, destroyed in 394.
Sumner Benedict
Sumner Benedict (Charles Sumner Benedict, 1867–1952) was an American rifle shooter and physician who won team military rifle gold for the United States at the 1908 London Olympics and placed =13 in the 1,000-yard free rifle.