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Shock Corridor
Shock Corridor is Samuel Fuller's 1963 psychological thriller, also called Straitjacket or The Long Corridor, in which reporter Johnny Barrett feigns insanity to solve an asylum murder and wins a Pulitzer Prize at the cost of his sanity.
Shock diamond
Shock diamonds, also called Mach diamonds, are bright diamond-shaped structures in a supersonic rocket or jet exhaust, often seen behind afterburning fighters and lifting rockets.
Shock Doctor
Shock Doctor, formerly E-Z Gard Industries, is an American brand of protective sports equipment including mouthguards, braces, and Cutters gloves, founded in Minnesota in 1992.
Shock G
Shock G (Gregory Edward Jacobs, 1963-2021), also known as Humpty Hump, founded Oakland's Digital Underground, scored 1990's "The Humpty Dance" and platinum Sex Packets, and co-produced Tupac Shakur's debut.
Shock ignition
Shock ignition is an inertial confinement fusion method in which a laser spike near stagnation launches a strong shock that helps form the hot spot.
Shock jock
Shock jock: a radio host who deliberately uses offensive or provocative language or opinions. Also called shock radio personalities. Term coined mid-1980s; traced to 1970s indecency cases; notable figures include Howard Stern and Don Imus.
Shock layer
A shock layer is the layer of hot, compressed gas trapped between a bow shock wave and a hypersonic vehicle's surface, above Mach 5, and governs the vehicle's heating.
Shock response spectrum
The shock response spectrum (SRS) is a plot of the peak response of single-degree-of-freedom oscillators to a transient acceleration, the standard tool for characterizing mechanical shock severity.
Shock rock
Shock rock is a rock genre defined by theatrical shock value in live performance, not by sound. Alice Cooper, its godfather, founded it after the 1969 Toronto chicken incident; Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, GWAR, and Slipknot continued it.
Shock site
A shock site, or shock website, is a website designed to shock or disgust visitors with graphic images or videos, often delivered through bait-and-switch prank links.
Shock therapy (economics)
Shock therapy, or economic shock therapy, is a program of rapid, radical reforms transitioning a centrally planned economy to a market-based one, first applied in Poland in 1990.
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment (1981) is a satirical musical comedy by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien, a follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show starring Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper, set inside a TV studio, a critical and commercial failure later praised as prescient about reality television.
Shock troops
Shock troops are units whose role is shock action, attacks causing psychological overload through surprise, bombardment, armor, and sudden approach; prominent in WWI German assault tactics and later doctrine.
Shock tube
A shock tube is a laboratory device that ruptures a diaphragm to send a shock wave through a test gas, heating it almost instantaneously for chemical kinetics studies.
Shock tube detonator
A shock tube detonator is a non-electric blasting detonator initiated by a shock wave in a powder-coated plastic tube, invented by Per-Anders Persson of Nitro Nobel in the 1960s.
Shock wave
A shock wave is a thin front in a fluid or solid across which pressure, temperature, and density rise almost instantaneously when something moves faster than sound.
Shock Wave (拆弹专家) (2017 film)
Shock Wave (拆弹专家) is a 2017 Hong Kong action thriller directed by Herman Yau, starring Andy Lau as a bomb disposal officer confronting a bomber who seizes the Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
Shock Wave 2 (拆弹专家2)
Shock Wave 2 (拆彈專家2) is a 2020 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Herman Yau, produced by and starring Andy Lau with Lau Ching-wan and Ni Ni; it earned 13.16亿 yuan in mainland China and won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Editing.
Shock Wave 3
Shock Wave 3 (拆弹专家3) is the planned third entry in the Hong Kong Shock Wave bomb-disposal series starring Andy Lau, approved as a 2023 mainland–Hong Kong co-production; Herman Yau is listed as director, with no confirmed release date.
Shock wave lithotripsy
Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is a noninvasive treatment that uses focused acoustic shock waves to fragment kidney or ureteral stones so they pass in the urine.
Shock wave therapy
Shock wave therapy is a clinical treatment delivering short, high-amplitude acoustic pressure pulses into tissue to stimulate healing and reduce pain, used mainly for tendinopathy and plantar fasciitis.
Shock-capturing scheme
A shock-capturing scheme is a numerical method for hyperbolic conservation laws that resolves shock waves and other discontinuities automatically, smearing them over grid cells instead of tracking the front explicitly.
Shock–boundary layer interaction
A shock–boundary layer interaction is a flow phenomenon in which a shock wave meets the boundary layer, thickening it and, if strong enough, separating it from the surface.
Shockat Adam
Shockat Adam (Shockat Hussain Adam Patel, born 1972) is a British optometrist and Independent MP for Leicester South, elected in 2024 after defeating Labour's Jonathan Ashworth by 979 votes; Independent Alliance and Your Party member.
Shocker (film)
Shocker, also known as Wes Craven's Shocker, is a 1989 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Wes Craven, starring Mitch Pileggi as an executed killer who returns as electricity.
Shocking Blue
Shocking Blue, Dutch rock band from The Hague (1967–1974) founded by Robbie van Leeuwen, fronted by Mariska Veres; "Venus" hit US number 1 in 1970, first Dutch act to do so.
Shockley–Queisser limit
The Shockley–Queisser limit is the maximum theoretical efficiency of a single-junction solar cell, 33.16% under one-sun illumination, calculated by William Shockley and Hans-Joachim Queisser in 1961.
Shockwave Medical
Shockwave Medical was a Santa Clara, California medical device company founded in 2009 that developed intravascular lithotripsy catheters and was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2024 for about $13.1 billion.
Shodan (website)
Shodan, also known as Shodan.io, is a search engine that indexes Internet-connected devices, from desktop computers to industrial control systems, launched by John Matherly in 2009.
Shodash Granth
Shodash Granth (षोडश ग्रन्थ) is a collection of sixteen short Sanskrit treatises composed by Vallabhacharya (1479–1531), founder of the Pushtimarg bhakti tradition, revered within it as its Upanishad.