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Supertramp discography
The Supertramp discography comprises the studio, live, and compilation albums of the British rock band Supertramp, released between 1970 and 2006, including eleven studio albums mostly on A&M Records.
Supertubes
Supertubes, also written Super Tubes and known locally as Supers, is a celebrated right-hand point break at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, hosting a World Surf League event since the early 1980s.
SuperTux
SuperTux: free open-source 2D platformer starring Tux the Linux mascot, rescuing Penny from Nolok. Created by Bill Kendrick in 2004, GPL-licensed, latest stable release 0.7.0 (2026).
Superunknown
Superunknown is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Soundgarden, released in March 1994. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, sold six million US copies, and won two Grammy Awards.
Superuser
A superuser, also called the root user or root, is a special account on a computer system exempt from ordinary access restrictions, allowing the most vital and far-reaching system administration.
SuperValu (United States)
Supervalu Inc. (NYSE: SVU), American grocery wholesaler and retailer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, successor to 1870s firms, once largest US grocery distributor; acquired by United Natural Foods in 2018 for $2.9 billion. Distinct from the Irish SuperValu franchise of Musgrave Group.
Supervillain
Supervillain: a fictional antagonist with extraordinary powers or intellect opposing a superhero in comics and film. Key facts: Ultra-Humanite first comics supervillain (1939); Moriarty prototype (1891); five archetypes; central to the genre.
Supervised contrastive learning
Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is a machine learning technique that pulls together representations of same-label samples and pushes apart different ones, introduced by Khosla and colleagues in 2020.
Supervised exercise therapy
Supervised exercise therapy (SET) is structured exercise prescribed under professional supervision, recommended as first-line treatment for leg pain from peripheral artery disease, typically treadmill walking for 3 to 6 months.
Supervised fine-tuning
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the first stage of post-training, in which a pretrained language model learns to follow instructions from instruction–response pairs before preference alignment.
Supervised learning
Supervised learning, also called supervised machine learning, is a machine-learning paradigm where a model trains on input-output pairs, like labeled spam emails, covering regression and classification tasks.
Supervised object detection
Supervised object detection trains a model on images or point clouds with labeled objects, outputting a localized bounding box and class label for each object, from Faster R-CNN to YOLO.
Supervised visitation
Supervised visitation, also called supervised access or supervised parenting time, is court-ordered parent-child contact observed by a neutral third person, typically after domestic violence, abuse, or neglect concerns, delivered by professional or nonprofessional providers.
Supervisor
A supervisor is an employee's immediate superior, the first-line manager who directs, assigns, trains, and evaluates workers; in US labor law the term decides union bargaining eligibility and harassment liability.
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is an x86 processor security feature that faults when kernel code accesses user-mode memory, blocking exploits that forge data structures there.
Supervisory control theory
Supervisory control theory is a framework for automatically synthesizing a supervisor that disables controllable events so a discrete-event system meets its specification, founded by Ramadge and Wonham in 1987.
Supervive
SUPERVIVE (头号追击), formerly Project Loki, was a free-to-play MOBA-style hero battle royale by Theorycraft Games, ex-Blizzard/Riot/Bungie devs. Early Access November 20, 2024, 1.0 July 2025, over two million players, shut down February 25, 2026.
Supervolcano
A supervolcano is a volcanic center that has produced a super-eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of material at once.
Superwog
Superwog is an Australian comedy franchise by brothers Theo and Nathan Saidden: a YouTube sketch channel founded in 2008, an ABC television series from 2018, and the 2025 Netflix series Son of a Donkey.
Superwoman
Superwoman is the name of several DC Comics characters, chiefly the Crime Syndicate's evil Wonder Woman counterpart from Earth-3 (debut Justice League of America #29, August 1964, by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky), also used by Lois Lane and Kristin Wells.
Superyacht
A superyacht, also known as a megayacht, is a large, professionally crewed private pleasure yacht, typically 24 meters or longer; the longest, Azzam, exceeds 180 meters.
Supha Sangaworawong (สุภา สังวรวงศ์)
Supha Sangaworawong (สุภา สังวรวงศ์), known by the nickname Est, is a Thai actor and competitive swimmer for the Thai national team, born in 2001 in Bangkok.
Suphajee Suthumpun
Suphajee Suthumpun is a Thai politician and former business executive who became Minister of Commerce in 2025 and Deputy Prime Minister in 2026 under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Suphamongkhon Supapipat
Suphamongkhon Supapipat (ศุภมงคล ศุภพิพัฒน์), called Chef Art, is a Thai chef leading Bangkok's reservation-only Chef's Table by Chef Art and named Thailand's ninth Iron Chef in 2026.
Suphan Dagi
Suphan Dagi (Süphan Dağı, Sîpanê Xelatê) is a dormant stratovolcano north of Lake Van, Turkey's third highest peak at 4,058 m, Pleistocene eruptions, retreating summit glaciers.
Suphankalaya
Suphankalaya (สุพรรณกัลยา) was a 16th-century princess of Ayutthaya, daughter of King Maha Thammaracha and elder sister of King Naresuan, sent as a hostage to Pegu.
Suphannaphum Dynasty
The Suphannaphum Dynasty (ราชวงศ์สุพรรณภูมิ) was a royal house of the Ayutthaya kingdom, founded in 1370 by Borommarachathirat I of Suphanburi and ended in 1569 when Ayutthaya fell to Burma.
Suphx
Suphx, short for Super Phoenix, is a deep reinforcement learning AI for four-player Japanese Riichi Mahjong built by Microsoft Research Asia and described in 2020.
Supination
Supination: rotation turning the palm forward or upward at the forearm (radius around ulna, 80–90° range; supinator and biceps), or adduction plus inversion raising the foot's arch; opposite of pronation.
Supine position
Supine position: lying flat on the back, face up (decúbito supino). The most common surgical position; highest cardiac output and lowest vascular resistance of compared body positions; arms kept under 90 degrees abduction.