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Shrinivas Kulkarni
Shrinivas Kulkarni is an Indian-born American astronomer, the George Ellery Hale Professor at Caltech, known for millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray burst distances, and founding the Zwicky Transient Facility.
Shrinjay Pratap Singh
Lieutenant General Shrinjay Pratap Singh, AVSM, YSM, Indian Army Kumaon Regiment infantry officer commissioned 10 June 1989; former DG Defence Intelligence Agency and Southern Command Chief of Staff; GOC-in-C ARTRAC Shimla since 1 October 2026; son of Vir Chakra awardee Major Dhirendra Nath Singh.
Shrinkage estimation
Shrinkage estimation is a statistical technique that biases estimates toward zero or a target value, reducing variance and lowering overall mean squared error, as in the James–Stein estimator.
Shrinkage estimator
A shrinkage estimator is a statistical estimator that deliberately pulls an ordinary estimate toward a central value such as zero, trading added bias for lower variance.
Shrinkage of Lake Chad
The shrinkage of Lake Chad is the loss of about 90 percent of the lake's surface area from the 1960s to the 1990s, with recent refilling since 2000.
Shrinkflation
Shrinkflation, also called package downsizing, is the practice of reducing a packaged product's size or count while holding its price steady, a hidden form of inflation.
Shrinking (TV series)
Shrinking is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama co-created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence, and Brett Goldstein, premiering January 27, 2023. Segel plays widowed therapist Jimmy Laird; Harrison Ford plays Dr. Paul Rhodes. Three seasons, nine Emmy nominations, fourth season planned.
Shripad Naik
Shripad Naik is an Indian BJP politician who has represented North Goa in the Lok Sabha since 1999 and serves as Union Minister of State for Power.
Shriram Finance
Shriram Finance Limited is an Indian non-banking financial company formed in 2022 by merging Shriram Transport Finance and Shriram City Union Finance, lending mainly against used commercial vehicles.
Shriram Lagoo (श्रीराम लागू)
Shriram Lagoo (श्रीराम लागू), 1927-2019, Indian Marathi and Hindi stage and film actor, ENT surgeon, Natsamrat lead, 1978 Filmfare for Gharaonda, rationalist activist.
Shriram Ramanathan
Shriram Ramanathan is an American materials scientist who holds the inaugural Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering at Rutgers University and works on complex oxides, solid oxide fuel cells, and neuromorphic computing.
Shrīrāmpur, West Bengal
Shrīrāmpur (Serampore, Frederiksnagore), a city and municipality in Hooghly district, West Bengal, on the Hooghly River about 24 km north of Kolkata; a Danish-Norwegian trading station 1755–1845, ceded to Britain in 1845, home of Serampore College (1818).
Shrirang Barne
Shrirang Appa Chandu Barne, known as Shrirang Barne, is an Indian Shiv Sena politician who has been the Lok Sabha member for Maval, Maharashtra, since 2014.
Shriver family
Shriver family: American political family joined to the Kennedys by Sargent Shriver's 1953 marriage to Eunice Kennedy; founders of the Peace Corps and Special Olympics, parents of Maria, Bobby, Tim, Mark, and Anthony Shriver.
Shriya Pilgaonkar (श्रिया पिलगांवकर)
Shriya Pilgaonkar (श्रिया पिलगांवकर), born 1989 in Mumbai, is an Indian actress, daughter of Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar, known for Ekulti Ek, Fan, and Sweety Gupta in Mirzapur and Mirzapur: The Movie.
Shriya Saran (శ్రియా శరన్ భట్నాగర్)
Shriya Saran (Shriya Saran Bhatnagar, శ్రియా శరన్ భట్నాగర్), Indian actress born 1982 in Haridwar; Telugu debut Ishtam (2001); known for Santosham, Sivaji, Manam, RRR, and Nandini in the Drishyam films.
Shriya Saran filmography
Shriya Saran (Shriya Saran Bhatnagar, born 1982) is an Indian actress in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema. Debut Ishtam (2001); known for Sivaji, Awarapan, the Drishyam franchise, and RRR.
Shriya Sharma (श्रिया शर्मा)
Shriya Sharma (श्रिया शर्मा), Indian actress born 1997 in Himachal Pradesh; child artist in Kasautii Zindagii Kay, National Film Award Best Child Artist 2011 for Chillar Party, lead in Gayakudu; distinct from Shriya Saran.
Shrooms (film)
Shrooms (film) is a 2007 Irish horror movie directed by Paddy Breathnach and written by Pearse Elliott. It stars Lindsey Haun and Jack Huston and five American college students.
Shropshire
Shropshire: rural West Midlands county and unitary authority (E06000051) on the Welsh border; 323,600 people (2021), density 101/km², tourism worth over £1bn, unitary since 2009.
Shroud
A shroud is a cloth or garment for wrapping a dead body before burial, also called a winding sheet. Covers Islamic kafan rules, Jewish tachrichim, English woolen-shroud laws of 1666 and 1679, Roman Egyptian painted shrouds, and modern shroud-only burial.
Shroud (gamer)
Shroud, also known as Michael Grzesiek, is a Canadian former Counter-Strike professional best known for his time with Cloud9 and his huge Twitch streaming audience.
Shroud (Tchaikovsky novel)
Shroud is a 2025 standalone science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK, Orbit US) about two humans stranded on a dark, high-gravity moon inhabited by a hive-mind alien species called the Shrouded; a 2026 Hugo Best Novel finalist.
Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin, also called the Turin Shroud, is a linen cloth in Turin Cathedral bearing the image of a man, claimed by some to be Jesus's burial cloth.
Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday, also called Pancake Day or Mardi Gras, is the day before Ash Wednesday that begins Lent in Western churches, traditionally a day of confession and pancake eating.
Shrovetide
Shrovetide is the festive season in Western Christianity immediately before Lent, comprising Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, known for pancakes, confession, and traditional football.
Shrub
Shrub: a perennial woody plant, also called a bush, shorter than a tree with multiple stems from near ground level; no strict scientific definition exists, defined by stem number and height conventions of 12-20 feet.
Shrub (drink)
Shrub (drinking vinegar): a fruit, sugar, and vinegar syrup diluted with water, soda, or spirits. From Arabic sharab; popular in colonial America, revived by the 2000s cocktail renaissance; distinct from switchel and oxymel.
Shrubland
Shrubland: non-forest vegetation dominated by shrubs with over 10% cover and no tall tree canopy, covering part of the ~40% of land in grasslands, shrublands, and savannas; shaped by drought, poor soils, and fire, with sagebrush and chaparral as major western US types.
Shrukh of Nund Rishi
A shrukh, from the Sanskrit shloka, is a short didactic Kashmiri mystical poem written by the Sufi saint Nund Rishi around 1400 to teach Islamic mysticism to Kashmiris.