All articles starting with S

Sanicula

Sanicula (sanicle, black snakeroot) is a genus of about 40 perennial woodland herbs in Apiaceae subfamily Saniculoideae, established by Linnaeus in 1753 with type species S. europaea, with diversity centers in China and North America and hooked-prickled fruits.

Oct 15, 2026

Sanidine

Sanidine is the high-temperature, structurally disordered polymorph of potassium feldspar, typically found as crystals in quickly cooled volcanic rocks such as rhyolite and trachyte, and prized for argon dating.

Sanifit

Sanifit was a Spanish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, spun out of the University of the Balearic Islands, that developed SNF472 for vascular calcification until Vifor Pharma acquired it in 2021.

Sanil Electric

Sanil Electric (산일전기) is a South Korean specialty transformer manufacturer founded by Park Dong-seok in 1987, headquartered in Ansan and listed on KOSPI in 2024.

Sanisera

Sanisera, also Sanitja or Sa Nitja, a Roman port city on the north coast of Menorca, Spain, named by Pliny with Iamo and Mago; military camp of 123 BC, two basilicas, seven necropoleis, abandoned in late antiquity.

Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company

Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company, also known as Sanitarium Health Food Company, is the health food business of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, best known for the Weet-Bix cereal.

Sanitary Engineering

Sanitary engineering, also known as public health or wastewater engineering, plans, builds, and maintains water supply and waste disposal infrastructure, with infant mortality falling 10 to 30 percent after clean water and sanitation.

Sanitary sewer

A sanitary sewer, also called a foul sewer, is a buried pipe network that carries domestic and industrial wastewater to a treatment plant, deliberately excluding stormwater runoff.

Sanitary sewer overflow

A sanitary sewer overflow (SSO), also known as a wet weather overflow or sewage spill, is an untreated release of sewage from a sanitary sewer system.

Sanitation

Sanitation: provision of facilities and services for safe disposal of human excreta, measured by the WHO/UNICEF JMP five-rung ladder from open defecation to safely managed; 58% global coverage in 2024, 3.4 billion lacking safely managed services.

Sanitation in ancient Rome

Sanitation in ancient Rome comprised the aqueducts, sewers, public and private latrines, and baths that served cities of more than one million people, yet parasites like whipworm and roundworm remained widespread.

Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation

The sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation, also called Harappan sanitation, was a Bronze Age urban drainage system built of burnt brick from roughly 2600 to 1900 BC.

Sep 24, 2026

Sanité Bélair

Sanité Bélair (Marie-Sainte Bélair) was a Haitian revolutionary who served as a lieutenant in Toussaint Louverture's army and was executed by the French in 1802.

Sep 27, 2026

Sanitiar Burhanuddin

Sanitiar Burhaddin, also known as Sanitiar Burhanuddin or ST Burhanuddin, is an Indonesian prosecutor who has served as Attorney General since 2019, leading high-profile corruption cases including Jiwasraya and Asabri.

Sanity

Sanity: soundness of mind; in law, a defendant's criminal responsibility at the time of an offense, tested by standards from the 1724 wild-beast rule to M'Naghten and the 1984 federal reform act.

Sanity (professional wrestling)

SAnitY (SAni†Y, サニティ) was a WWE wrestling stable formed in NXT in 2016, led by Eric Young with Wolfe, Cross, Dain, and Fulton; NXT Tag Team Champions, called up to SmackDown in 2018, split in 2019, later reunited on the independents.

Sanity check

A sanity check, also called sanity testing, is a quick, coarse evaluation of whether a result, calculation, or system output is plausible before it is analyzed in detail.

Oct 15, 2026

Sanix Energy Tomakomai power station

The Sanix Energy Tomakomai power station is a 74 MW thermal power station in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan, operating since 2003 and described as the only power plant generating electricity solely from waste plastic.

Saniya Iyappan

Saniya Iyappan (സാനിയ അയ്യപ്പൻ) is an Indian actress from Kochi, Kerala, born in 2002, who debuted as a lead in Queen (2018) and played Jhanvi in Lucifer (2019).

Saniya LeBlanc

Saniya LeBlanc is a mechanical engineering professor at George Washington University whose research develops printed and additively manufactured thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat into electricity.

Saniya Rivers

Saniya Rivers (born 2003) is an American WNBA guard for the Connecticut Sun, drafted 8th overall in 2025 out of NC State; 2025 rookie with 100 stocks and Sun rookie records.

Saniyya Sidney

Saniyya Sidney (born 2006, Los Angeles) is an American actress who played young Venus Williams in King Richard (2021), earning a Critics Choice nomination; also known for Fences, Hidden Figures, The Passage, and The First Lady.

Şanışer

Şanışer is the stage name of Sarp Palaur, a Turkish rapper, songwriter, and video director best known for assembling and directing the 2019 all-star protest track Susamam.

Sanja Jovanovic

Sanja Jovanović (born 1986, Dubrovnik) is a Croatian backstroke swimmer, three-time Olympian, who held the short-course 50 m backstroke world record 2007–2014 (25.70) and won five European short-course titles.