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SWOT (satellite)
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is a NASA and CNES satellite launched in December 2022 that makes the first global survey of Earth's oceans, lakes, and rivers.
SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that sorts internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats into a 2 × 2 grid, developed at Stanford Research Institute in 1965.
SWR meter
The SWR meter is an inline radio frequency test instrument that measures how well a transmission line is matched to its load by displaying the standing wave ratio.
SWR/J
SWR/J (SW, swiss) is an albino inbred laboratory mouse strain from Swiss stock inbred by Clara Lynch from about 1926, held at Jackson Laboratory (stock 000689). Carries Pde6b^rd1 retinal degeneration, C5 complement deficiency, Soa^a taster allele; EAE-susceptible, obesity-resistant, transgenesis-friendly.
SWV
SWV (Sisters with Voices) is a New York R&B trio of Cheryl Gamble, Tamara Johnson, and Leanne Lyons, whose 1992 RCA debut It's About Time produced "Weak," a number one pop and R&B hit, and three Grammy nominations.
Swvl
Swvl is a technology-enabled mass transit company founded in Cairo, Egypt in 2017 by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh, and Ahmed Sabbah, now headquartered in Dubai.
SX-EW
SX-EW (solvent extraction–electrowinning) is a hydrometallurgical process that recovers copper directly from leached oxide ore as high-purity cathode without smelting, first used commercially at the Bluebird mine, Arizona, in 1968.
SXP Analytics
SXP Analytics, L.L.C. was a high-frequency trading firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 2007, it was shut down by litigation and a $12.2 million jury verdict for Quantlab.
SxS
SxS (S-by-S) is a flash memory card format for professional camcorders, developed by Sony and SanDisk, announced in 2007 as recording media for Sony's XDCAM EX camcorders.
Sy siblings
The Sy siblings are the six children of Philippine retail magnate Henry Sy Sr. who lead the SM group, the country's largest conglomerate, worth $11.8 billion in 2025.
Sy'Rai Smith
Sy'Rai Smith, also known as Sy'Rai Iman Smith, is an American R&B singer and actress, the daughter of Brandy, who released her debut EP Cold War in 2026.
Syagrus
Syagrus (palm genus, Mart. 1824; queen palm Syagrus romanzoffiana) is a Neotropical Arecaceae genus of about 71 species, mostly Brazilian, sister to the coconut, with 14 natural hybrids and bitter palm-heart species.
Syaikh Yusuf al-Makassari
Syaikh Yusuf al-Makassari, also known as Tuanta Salamaka ri Gowa, was a Makassar-born Sufi scholar and mufti of Banten who died in Dutch exile at the Cape in 1699.
Syair
Syair (Jawi: شعير) is a classical Malay poetic form of four-line stanzas all rhyming aaaa, suited to long narrative and teaching; the earliest examples are credited to the Sufi poet Hamzah Fansuri around 1600.
Syair Abdul Muluk
Syair Abdul Muluk, also Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk, is a nineteenth-century Malay narrative poem in which Siti Rafi'ah disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband, becoming an early Malay bestseller.
Syair Bidasari
Syair Bidasari is an anonymous classical Malay romantic narrative poem, an estimated 1750 work of about 7,000 verses telling of a maiden whose life resides in a golden fish.
Syair Burung Pingai
Syair Burung Pingai, also titled Thair al-'Uryan, is a Malay Sufi poem by Hamzah Fansuri casting the soul's search for God as a colloquy of birds.
Syair Perahu
Syair Perahu, "Poem of the Boat," is the name of two Malay Sufi poems using the ship as a metaphor for the soul's voyage toward God.
Syair Perang Mengkasar
Syair Perang Mengkasar is a Malay war poem by Encik Amin describing the Makassar War of 1666 to 1669, in which the VOC defeated Sultan Hasanuddin.
Syair Singapura Terbakar
Syair Singapura Terbakar ("The Burning of Singapore") is a Malay syair by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi recording Singapore's great fire of 1830, published in 1843.
Syair Siti Zubaidah
Syair Siti Zubaidah, also called Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang China, is an anonymous Malay narrative poem in which the heroine disguises herself as a man to rescue her captive husband.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (শ্যামাপ্রসাদ মুখার্জী)
Syama Prasad Mukherjee (শ্যামাপ্রসাদ মুখার্জী), also Syama Prasad Mookerjee, 1901–1953, Indian educationist, barrister, and politician; Calcutta University's youngest Vice-Chancellor, first Minister for Industry and Supply, and founder-president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951; died in detention in Srinagar in 1953.
Syama Sastri
Syama Sastri (శ్యామ శాస్త్రి, 1762 to 1827) was a Carnatic music composer of Thanjavur, one of the Carnatic Musical Trinity with Tyagaraja and Muthuswamy Dikshitar.
Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar
Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (born 1947) is a retired Indian civil servant, former Member Traffic of the Railway Board, 2009 Padma Shri civil service awardee, and later Vice Chairman of the Railway Claims Tribunal and NTPC independent director.
Syamsuddin al-Sumatrani
Syamsuddin al-Sumatrani, also called Syamsuddin of Pasai, was a Malay Sufi scholar and jurist who served as shaykh al-Islam of the Aceh Sultanate until 1630.
Syariah Court of Singapore
Syariah Court of Singapore: statutory court administering Muslim family law (marriage, divorce, property, maintenance) under AMLA 1966, established 1958; distinct from civil Family Justice Courts and from Brunei's Syariah Court.
Syariah Courts of Malaysia
Syariah Courts of Malaysia (Mahkamah Syariah) are the religious courts for Muslims in Malaysia's dual judicial system, based on Article 121(1A) and the State List, handling Islamic family and limited criminal matters alongside civil courts.
Syarif Kasim II
Syarif Kasim II was the 12th and last Sultan of Siak, reigning 1915 to 1945, who gave his throne and fortune to the Republic of Indonesia.
Sybaris/Thurii/Copia
Sybaris/Thurii/Copia: three successive cities, archaic Achaean Sybaris (c. 720 BC), panhellenic Thurii (444/443 BC), and Roman Copia (194 BC), on the same Crati delta site in Calabria, buried by alluvium and rediscovered by 1960s magnetometry.
Sybarite (doll)
Sybarite is a line of 16-inch resin ball-jointed fashion dolls made since 2005 by Superdoll Collectibles of London, sold dressed in miniature couture for adult collectors.