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Supermarket
Supermarket: a large self-service food retail store combining full grocery lines, meat, produce, and non-food goods under one roof. Key markers: Piggly Wiggly's 1916 self-service origin, King Kullen 1930, low-margin high-volume economics, and dominance of food retail since the mid-1950s.
Supermarket Sweep
Supermarket Sweep: Al Howard's game show, first on ABC 1965–1967, revived on Lifetime, PAX, and ABC (Leslie Jones, 2020–2022); teams race through a mock supermarket in a three-minute Big Sweep for cash.
Supermartingale
A supermartingale is a stochastic process whose expected future value, conditional on everything known so far, is never greater than its present value, as in an unfavorable game.
Supermassive black hole
A supermassive black hole is a black hole of more than 1 million solar masses found at the center of nearly all large galaxies, including the Milky Way's Sagittarius A.
Supermassive black hole binary
A supermassive black hole binary is a pair of supermassive black holes at the centers of merged galaxies that spirals toward coalescence, forming after the galaxies combine.
Supermassive Games
Supermassive Games, a Guildford-based British studio founded in 2008 by Pete and Joe Samuels, makes cinematic choice-driven horror: Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, The Quarry. Wholly owned by Nordisk Games since July 2022.
Supermax (film)
Supermax: upcoming Amazon MGM action thriller directed by David Gordon Green, starring Will Smith as FBI agent Rex investigating an impossible prison murder; $70 million Miramax deal, Prime Video streaming, filming in New South Wales from August 2026.
Supermax prison
A supermax prison is a prison or unit for disruptive or violent inmates, controlled through isolation and restricted movement, first developed in the United States in the 1980s.
SuperMemo
SuperMemo is a learning method, software family, and company built around spaced repetition, created by Piotr Woźniak, whose first program launched in 1987 and whose SM-2 algorithm underlies Anki.
Supermicro
Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc., Nasdaq: SMCI) is a San Jose-based server and storage maker founded by Charles Liang in 1993, known for Building Block Solutions, liquid-cooled AI GPU systems, and U.S.-based manufacturing.
Supermium
Supermium is an open-source web browser based on Chromium and backported to Windows XP through 8.x by Shane "win32ss" Fournier, featuring Google Sync, Manifest V2 extension support, and Widevine DRM.
Supermodel
Supermodel: celebrity-status fashion model; term popularized in the 1980s, peaked with the January 1990 British Vogue cover and the Big Six (Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington, Schiffer, Moss), declined by 1998.
Supermodel Me season 7
SupermodelMe: Make It or Break It is the seventh season of the Singaporean reality modeling competition SupermodelMe, the franchise's first mobile-first season, won by Habie Mondido in 2026.
Supermonkey (超级猩猩)
Supermonkey (超级猩猩) is a Chinese fitness chain founded in Shenzhen in 2014 that sells pay-per-class group exercise booked through WeChat, with no annual or monthly memberships.
Supermoon
A supermoon, or perigee moon, is a full Moon occurring at or near perigee, its closest point to Earth, appearing about 14% larger and 30% brighter than ordinary full Moons.
SuperMUC-NG
SuperMUC-NG is the flagship supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching near Munich, in operation since 2018 and ranked 8th worldwide on its debut TOP500 listing.
Supermultiplet
A supermultiplet is an irreducible representation of the supersymmetry algebra: particle states of equal mass whose spins differ by half-integer steps, paired bosons with fermions.
SuperMutant Magic Academy
SuperMutant Magic Academy is Jillian Tamaki's webcomic (started 2010 on Tumblr) and 2015 Drawn & Quarterly collection about mutant and witch teens at a prep school, centered on Marsha's crush on fox-girl Wendy; Ignatz 2011–2012 and Eisner 2016 winner, with an Adult Swim adaptation in development.
Supernanny
Supernanny is a reality TV series starring British nanny Jo Frost, first on Channel 4 in July 2004 and ABC from 2005, famous for the naughty step time-out technique, ratings of 6–7 million UK viewers, and a 2020 Lifetime reboot.
Supernatural
The supernatural: an order of existence beyond the observable universe, transcending natural law; also called paranormal or occult belief. Excluded from science as untestable, culturally specific, and widely held, with 73% of Americans believing in at least one supernatural phenomenon.
Supernatural (American TV series)
Supernatural (2005–2020) is Eric Kripke's American fantasy horror series about Sam and Dean Winchester, monster-hunting brothers in a '67 Chevy Impala; 15 seasons, 327 episodes on The WB and The CW.
Supernatural (Ariana Grande song)
"Supernatural" is a 2024 pop song by Ariana Grande from eternal sunshine, track 6, 2:43, written with Max Martin, Oscar Görres, and Brett McLaughlin, with a Troye Sivan duet version and a 2025 music video.
Supernatural (NewJeans song)
Supernatural is a 2024 song by K-pop group NewJeans, the title track of their Japanese-debut single Supernatural - Single, produced by 250 and reinterpreting Pharrell Williams' 2009 Back of My Mind in a New Jack Swing style.
Supernatural (Santana album)
Supernatural, Santana's eighteenth studio album (Arista, June 15, 1999), a Clive Davis-conceived comeback pairing Carlos Santana with Rob Thomas, Eric Clapton, and others; nine 2000 Grammys, "Smooth" and "Maria Maria" Hot 100 No. 1s, roughly 25-30 million sold.
Supernatural Academy
Supernatural Academy is a 2022 Peacock animated series based on Jaymin Eve's books, following werewolf twins Jessa and Mischa, Dragon Marked and cursed to serve the evil Dragon King; 16 episodes, one season, two 2026 feature films announced.
Supernatural beings in Slavic religion
Supernatural beings in Slavic religion: the spirits, demons, and personified figures of Slavic folk belief, from the domovoi, rusalka, vila, kikimora, and zmora to the zalozhny dead, known from Procopius onward and reconstructed from folklore rather than native mythological texts.
Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction, also called paranormal or occult fiction, is fantastic literature built on suspension of reality, arising 1762–1800 from Gothic novels like The Castle of Otranto, spanning Walpole, Poe, Jackson, and King, distinct from but overlapping horror, fantasy, and the Gothic.
Supernatural horror film
Supernatural horror film: a horror subgenre whose threats are ghosts, demons, witches, and curses rather than natural monsters. Dates to Méliès's 1896 The House of the Devil; spans 1930s gothic cycles, The Exorcist, J-horror and K-horror, and current occult- and folklore-driven demand.
Supernatural: Bloodlines
Supernatural: Bloodlines, formerly Supernatural: Tribes, was an unmade 2014 CW spin-off of Supernatural tested via a season 9 backdoor pilot about five monster families ruling Chicago; it was not picked up to series.
SuperNEMO
SuperNEMO, from Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory, is a particle physics experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of selenium-82 from the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in the French Alps.