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Senran Kagura (閃乱カグラ)

Senran Kagura (閃乱カグラ), also Shinobi Master Senran Kagura New Link, is a Marvelous/Tamsoft franchise of female-shinobi brawlers and spin-offs since 2011, created by Kenichiro Takaki, known for fan service, 1.65M sales, and the 2018 Sony censorship episode.

Senren Banka (千恋*万花)

Senren Banka (千恋*万花) is a Japanese-style romance adventure visual novel by Yuzusoft, its 10th-anniversary title, released July 29, 2016; set in hot-spring town Hoori around the broken divine sword Murasamemaru, with six routes and 500,000+ sales.

Senryū (川柳)

Senryū (川柳), also called kyoku in older usage, is a Japanese 5-7-5 seventeen-sound short poem, distinguished from haiku by requiring no season word or cutting word, using colloquial language, and satirizing human nature and society.

Sensation

Sensation, also known as Sensation White, is a Dutch arena dance event created by ID&T, first held in 2000 and defined by its all-white dress code.

Sensation disturbance

Sensation disturbance (感覚障害), ICD-11 code MB40, is a symptom category covering lost, reduced, exaggerated, or abnormally perceived sensation, from anesthesia and analgesia to allodynia and dysesthesia, most often caused by sensory neuropathy.

Sensation novel

The sensation novel was a British fiction genre of the 1860s, with plots of murder, bigamy, and madness among the respectable, exemplified by Wilkie Collins.

Sensation seeking

Sensation seeking is a personality trait defined by Marvin Zuckerman as seeking varied, novel, complex, intense experiences and taking risks for them, measured by the Sensation Seeking Scale with four subscales.

Sensation Seeking Scale

The Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) is a self-report questionnaire developed by Marvin Zuckerman in 1964 to measure the trait of seeking varied, novel, and intense experiences.

Sensationalism

Sensationalism in journalism: use of shocking, dramatic language and imagery to attract audiences. Covers yellow journalism (Pulitzer, Hearst), tabloid features, audience arousal effects, measurement, and clickbait ethics.

Sense

A sense, also known as the five senses, is a biological system that detects stimuli through receptors and sends signals to the brain; humans have an estimated 22 to 33 senses.

Sense (molecular biology)

Sense in molecular biology: the coding DNA strand matching the mRNA, positive/negative sense in RNA viruses, natural antisense transcripts, and antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics.

Sense amplifier

A sense amplifier is a circuit in a semiconductor memory array that amplifies the small bit line signal into a full digital level, setting read speed.

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel (30 October 1811, 'By a Lady', Thomas Egerton on commission), began as the epistolary Elinor and Marianne in 1795, contrasts the Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne, and differs from Pride and Prejudice in its focus on sense versus sensibility.

Sense and Sensibility (2024 film)

Sense and Sensibility (2024) is a Hallmark Channel TV movie directed by Roger M. Bobb, starring Deborah Ayorinde and Bethany Antonia as the Dashwood sisters, produced under the Mahogany label with a predominantly Black cast, premiered February 24, 2024, distinct from the 2026 Georgia Oakley theatrical film.

Sense and Sensibility (2026 film)

Sense and Sensibility (2026 film), Georgia Oakley's Jane Austen adaptation for Focus Features and Working Title, scripted by Diana Reid, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne; released UK September 25, 2026, US October 16, 2026.

Sense and Sensibility (film)

Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ang Lee's film of Jane Austen's novel, screenplay by Emma Thompson, starring Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman; seven Oscar nominations, Thompson won Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Bear winner.

Sense Labs, Inc.

Sense Labs, Inc., formerly Sage Devices, Inc., is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2013 that makes a home electricity monitor used in over 100,000 US homes.

SENSE trial

SENSE trial (NCT03316547): a randomized trial of 70 preterm infants at St. Louis Children's Hospital testing the Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences program, a parent-delivered daily sensory intervention, versus standard NICU care.

Sense8

Sense8 is a Netflix science fiction drama (2015–2018) created by the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski about eight strangers worldwide who become psychically linked; canceled after 23 episodes, revived for a two-hour finale.

senseFly

senseFly was a Swiss drone manufacturer founded in 2009 in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne that produced the eBee line of fixed-wing mapping drones, acquired by AgEagle Aerial Systems in 2021.

Sensei (先生)

Sensei (先生, せんせい) is a Japanese honorific for teachers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and other respected professionals, borrowed from Chinese xiansheng, literally "one born before"; cognates include Korean seonsaeng and Vietnamese tiên sinh.

Sensei Biotherapeutics

Sensei Biotherapeutics, originally Panacea Pharmaceuticals, was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Rockville, Maryland that developed cancer immunotherapies and conditionally active antibodies before becoming Faeth Therapeutics in 2026.

Senseneb

Senseneb was an Egyptian royal woman of the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Dynasty, attested as the mother of Pharaoh Thutmose I in a painted relief from Deir el-Bahri.

Senses Fail

Senses Fail is an American rock band from Ridgewood, New Jersey, formed in 2002, blending emo, screamo, and post-hardcore, fronted by vocalist Buddy Nielsen, the only constant member.

SenseTime

SenseTime (Shangtang Technology, 商汤科技) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou and Xu Li, headquartered in Hong Kong and listed there since 2021.

SenseVoice

SenseVoice is a family of open speech-understanding models released by Alibaba's Qwen team in July 2024, combining speech recognition with language identification, emotion recognition, and audio-event detection.

Sensible heat

Sensible heat is heat that changes a body's temperature rather than melting or boiling it, a distinction Joseph Black drew in his calorimetry work of the 1760s.

Sensible Soccer

Sensible Soccer (Sensi), 1992 Amiga football game by Sensible Software (Jon Hare, Chris Yates), published by Renegade; top-down view, 12-pixel players, aftertouch; spawned SWOS 1994, sold ~2 million, Stanford top-10 influential; rights now EA via Codemasters.

Sensing-as-a-service

Sensing-as-a-service is a service model, introduced in cognitive radio research in 2010, in which a dedicated provider measures the radio frequency environment and delivers measurements to clients on demand.

Sensirion

Sensirion is a Swiss manufacturer of microsensors based on MEMS technology, founded in 1998 as an ETH Zurich spin-off and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2018.