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Sati (Hindu goddess)
Sati (Sanskrit: सती), also called Dakshayani, is a Hindu goddess, wife of Shiva and daughter of Daksha, who immolated herself after her father excluded Shiva from a sacrifice.
Sati (सती) (practice)
Sati (सती) is the Hindu funeral practice of burning or burying a widow with her husband's body; prohibited by Bentinck's Regulation XVII in 1829 and criminalized, with its glorification, by India's Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987.
Sati al-Husri
Sati al-Husri (ساطع الحصري) was an Arab educator and nationalist theorist, born around 1880, who served as Syria's education minister in 1920 and ran Iraq's schools for two decades.
Sati Vallis
Sati Vallis is a 225 km valley on Venus at 3.2°N, 334.4°E, in the V-31 Sif Mons quadrangle, named for an Egyptian river goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1994.
Satiah
Satiah, also known as Satjah, was a queen of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and the first recorded Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III, who reigned about 1479–1425 BC.
Satin
Satin (sateen in weft-faced or non-silk form) is a weave structure, not a fiber: yarns float over four or more threads, giving a lustrous face, best drape, and snag-prone long floats; invented in China over two thousand years ago.
Satin Jackets (musician)
Satin Jackets is the nu-disco and Balearic house project of German producer Tim Bernhardt, launched in 2012, known for "You Make Me Feel Good" and the albums Panorama Pacifico, Solar Nights, Reunion, and Cruise Control.
Satinder Sartaaj (ਸਤਿੰਦਰ ਸਰਤਾਜ)
Satinder Sartaaj (ਸਤਿੰਦਰ ਸਰਤਾਜ), born Satinder Pal Singh in 1980, is a Punjabi Sufi singer, poet, and actor with a PhD from Panjab University, known for Sai, Udaarian, The Black Prince, and the viral 2026 song Jaiye Sajana.
Satingpra
Satingpra, also romanized Sathing Phra (Thai: สทิงพระ), was an ancient port kingdom in Southern Thailand that traded with Sung China and thrived from the sixth to thirteenth centuries.
Satipatthana Sutta
The Satipatthana Sutta (Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta) is the tenth discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya of the Pali Canon, in which the Buddha teaches mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and dhammas.
Satire
Satire: a humorous, critical literary mode attacking real, specific targets using irony, exaggeration, and ridicule. Named from Latin satura; classified first in Rome; three kinds, Horatian, Juvenalian, Menippean.
Satire of the Trades
The Satire of the Trades, or Teaching of Khety, is an Egyptian instruction text urging a son to become a scribe, composed about 1950-1900 BC.
Satires (Juvenal)
The Satires (Saturae) of Juvenal, sixteen hexameter poems in five books written in the early second century CE, attack Roman corruption with indignatio; famous for Satires 3, 6, and 10, phrases like "bread and circuses," and imitations by Johnson and Dryden.
Satirical novel
A satirical novel is a full-length work of fiction using humor, irony, and ridicule to expose social follies and political abuses, defined in China by Wu Jingzi's eighteenth-century The Scholars.
Satirikon
Satirikon (Сатирикон) was a weekly journal of satire and humor published in Saint Petersburg from 1908 to 1914, a central humor publication of pre-revolutionary Russia.
Satiru revolt
The Satiru revolt was a Mahdist-inspired rising of peasants and fugitive slaves near Sokoto, Nigeria, which destroyed a British patrol in February 1906 and was crushed the next month.
Satisfaction (2025 film)
Satisfaction (2025) is Alex Burunova's feature debut, a psychological drama starring Emma Laird, Fionn Whitehead, and Zar Amir Ebrahimi about composers Lola and Philip on a Greek island; SXSW 2025 premiere, Evolution Mallorca debut award.
Satisfaction (Benny Benassi song)
Satisfaction (Isak Original), 2002 electro-house track by Italian cousins Benny (Marco) and Alle Benassi with The Biz, from Hypnotica; UK number 2, over 400 million Spotify streams, foundation of electro house.
Satisfaction relation
The satisfaction relation in logic holds between a structure, a formula, and an assignment of objects to variables, written M, s models φ, and was introduced by Alfred Tarski in 1933.
Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory automation game by Coffee Stain Studios, set on planet Massage-2(AB)b for FICSIT. Early Access June 8, 2020; 1.0 September 10, 2024; consoles November 4, 2025; distinct from Factorio's 3D freeform building.
Satisfiability
Satisfiability is the property of a logical formula being true under at least one interpretation, or model. Its decision problem spans NP-complete Boolean SAT and undecidable first-order logic.
Satisfiability modulo theories
Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) is the decision problem of whether a formula is satisfiable under a background theory, extending Boolean SAT to first-order logic for verification.
Satisfiability threshold
The satisfiability threshold is the critical clause-to-variable density at which a random k-SAT formula changes from satisfiable to unsatisfiable with high probability as variables grow.
Satisficing
Satisficing is a decision-making strategy in which a person stops searching and picks the first option meeting a "good enough" threshold, introduced by Herbert A. Simon in 1955.
Satisfyer
Satisfyer is a German sexual wellness brand based in Bielefeld, best known for the Satisfyer Pro 2 clitoral stimulator launched in 2016 using its patented Air-Pulse technology.
Satish C. B. Myneni
Satish C. B. Myneni is an environmental geochemist and professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for discovering naturally formed chlorinated hydrocarbons in decaying plant material.
Satish Chandra Dubey
Satish Chandra Dubey, born in 1975, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Union Minister of State for Coal and Mines and as a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar.
Satish Dharmaraj
Satish Dharmaraj is an American venture capitalist, a managing director at Redpoint Ventures since 2009 and the founder of Zimbra, sold to Yahoo for $350 million.
Satish Dhawan (ਸਤੀਸ਼ ਧਵਨ)
Satish Dhawan (ਸਤੀਸ਼ ਧਵਨ) was an Indian aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist who led the Indian space program as ISRO chairman from 1972 to 1984.
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, also known as SHAR (Sriharikota Range), is India's spaceport on Sriharikota island, Andhra Pradesh, and ISRO's launch base, operational since 1971.