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Shot clock
Shot clock: 24-second possession timer in basketball, invented by Danny Biasone and Leo Ferris of the NBA's Syracuse Nationals, adopted April 22, 1954; raised scoring from 79.5 to 93.1 ppg and saved the league.
Shot glass
A shot glass is a small drinking glass for a single measure of liquor, typically 1-2 oz (30-60 ml). Historically also called jigger; term attested by 1955; US standard 1.5 oz, official only in Utah.
Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
The Shot Heard 'Round the World, or Miracle of Coogan's Bluff, is Bobby Thomson's 1951 home run that won the New York Giants the National League pennant.
Shot heard round the world
The shot heard round the world: phrase from Emerson's 1837 Concord Hymn for the opening gunfire of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775; first shooter unknown.
Shot Marilyns
Shot Marilyns: four of five 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen portraits of Marilyn Monroe (red, orange, light blue, sage blue backgrounds) shot through by Dorothy Podber at the Factory; Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195 million in 2022.
Shot noise
Shot noise, also called Poisson noise or Schottky noise, is the fluctuation of electrical current arising because charge is carried by discrete particles, first described by Walter Schottky in 1918.
Shot peening
Shot peening is a cold-working surface treatment that bombards metal parts with small spherical shot, inducing compressive stress that improves fatigue strength and stress corrosion resistance.
Shot put
Shot put: Olympic track and field throwing event; put one-handed from the shoulder in a 34.92° sector. World records: Ryan Crouser 23.56 m (2023), Natalya Lisovskaya 22.63 m (1987); glide and rotational techniques.
Shota Aoi
Shota Aoi (蒼井翔太), also romanized Shouta Aoi and formerly known as SHOWTA., is a Japanese singer and voice actor from Fukui Prefecture known for Ai Mikaze in Uta no Prince-sama.
Shota Arveladze (შოთა არველაძე)
Shota Arveladze (შოთა არველაძე), born 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgian striker and coach; Georgia's all-time top scorer (26 goals), 265 club goals in Europe, titles with Ajax and Rangers, later managed Pakhtakor, Hull City, and Kasımpaşa.
Shota Horii
Shota Horii (堀井翔太), born 1985 in Kyoto Prefecture, is a Japanese fintech entrepreneur who founded FRIL, sold it to Rakuten in 2016, and founded SmartBank.
Shota Khabareli
Shota Khabareli (შოთა ხაბარელი), born 1958, Georgian judoka for the USSR; Olympic gold in half-middleweight (−78 kg) at Moscow 1980, world bronze 1983, namesake of the obi tori gaeshi throw called the "Khabareli," later Georgian national coach and member of parliament.
Shota Oni
Shota Oni (ショタおに) is a boys' love manga by Miyuki Nakayama, published by Square Enix under Gangan BLiss since 2021, about elementary schooler Tsubaki's crush on his older friend Yuu; its anime adaptation is retitled Ore to Yu Nii!.
Shota Rustaveli State Prize
The Shota Rustaveli State Prize (შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის პრემია), formerly the Republican Prize, is a state award of Georgia honoring major works in literature and the arts.
Shota Shimizu
Shota Shimizu (清水翔太) is a Japanese R&B singer-songwriter from Osaka, born in 1989, who debuted in 2008 with "HOME" and became the first Heisei-born artist to top the Oricon album chart.
Shota Umino (海野翔太)
Shota Umino (海野翔太), real name Shota Unno, born 1997, is an NJPW heavyweight wrestler, son of referee Red Shoes Unno, Jon Moxley's protégé, former IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion, and a four-time G1 Climax entrant.
Shotacon (ショタコン)
Shotacon (ショタコン, Shōtarō complex) is a Japanese term for attraction to young or young-looking boy characters and the associated manga/anime genre, coined in 1981 in the fan magazine Fanroad after Tetsujin 28-go's Kaneda Shōtarō, as the male counterpart to lolicon, legally contested in several countries.
Shōtai Incident
The Shōtai Incident, or Shotai Conspiracy, was a bloodless coup of 901 in which Sugawara no Michizane, accused by Fujiwara no Tokihira, was exiled to Dazaifu.
Shotaro (大崎 将太郎) (rapper)
Shotaro (Osaki Shotaro, 大﨑 将太郎; born 2000) is a Japanese rapper and dancer, eldest member of SM's RIIZE after debuting with NCT U's Make A Wish in 2020.
Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎)
Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎), born Shotaro Onodera (1938–1998), a Japanese manga artist and Tokiwa-so resident who created Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider; Guinness record holder with 770 published comic titles in 500 collected volumes.
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎)
Shotaro Kaneda (金田正太郎) is the protagonist of Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA manga and 1988 film: a teenage biker-gang leader in Neo-Tokyo, friend turned enemy of Tetsuo, named after Tetsujin 28-go's hero and famous for his red motorcycle.
Shotcrete
Shotcrete, also called gunite or sprayed concrete, is concrete projected at high velocity from a nozzle, used for tunnel support, slope stabilization, and repair work.
Shote Galica
Shote Galica, born Qerime, was a Kosovo Albanian woman fighter who fought for roughly twelve years against Serbian and Yugoslav rule in Kosovo alongside her husband Azem Galica.
Shotel
The shotel is an Ethiopian sword with a strongly curved, sickle-shaped blade, sharpened on the inside of the curve to stab around an opponent's shield.
Shōtetsu
Shōtetsu (正徹, 1381–1459) was a Japanese waka poet and Zen monk of the early Muromachi period, regarded by many scholars as the last great poet of the courtly waka tradition.
Shotgun
A shotgun, also known as a scattergun or fowling piece, is a smooth-bore firearm that fires numerous small pellets or a single slug, dominating bird hunting and clay target sports.
Shotgun house
The shotgun house, also called a shotgun shack or shotgun cottage, is a narrow one-story house with rooms in a straight line and no hallway, closely associated with New Orleans.
Shotgun lipidomics
Shotgun lipidomics is a mass spectrometry method that infuses a total lipid extract directly into an electrospray source, without chromatography, quantifying hundreds to thousands of lipid species.
Shotgun proteomics
Shotgun proteomics, also called bottom-up proteomics, is a mass spectrometry method that digests proteins into peptides, separates them by LC-MS/MS, and infers the original proteins computationally.
Shotgun sequencing
Shotgun sequencing: laboratory method that randomly fragments DNA, sequences the pieces, and reassembles the genome from overlaps; used in hierarchical and whole-genome shotgun forms by the HGP and Celera, and in metagenomics.