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Signoff (EDA)

Signoff in electronic design automation is the final verification stage of a chip design flow, checking timing, power, and physical rules against foundry requirements before tapeout.

Signora Volpe

Signora Volpe is a British-Italian detective drama starring Emilia Fox as Sylvia Fox, a former MI6 spy who becomes an amateur detective in Umbria, Italy, from 2022.

Signs (film)

Signs is a 2002 American science fiction thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mel Gibson as a former priest whose farm shows signs of alien visitation.

Signs (Luke Bryan album)

Signs is Luke Bryan's ninth studio album, released September 18, 2026 on MCA Nashville, produced by Jeff Stevens, Jody Stevens, and Matt Dragstrem. It features the Luke Combs duet "Finders Keepers" and the Top 10 single "Country And She Knows It".

Signs and symptoms

Signs and symptoms: clinical manifestations of disease. A symptom is subjective, perceived by the patient; a sign is objective, observed by the clinician. Defined in MeSH D012816 and coded in ICD-10-CM R00-R99.

Signs and symptoms of HIV/AIDS

Signs and symptoms of HIV/AIDS: flu-like acute illness 2–4 weeks after infection, symptom-free clinical latency lasting about a decade, then AIDS with CD4 below 200 cells/mm3 and opportunistic infections; testing is the only reliable diagnosis.

Signs of the coming of Judgement Day

Signs of the coming of Judgement Day are portents in several religious traditions that precede the end of the world and the final judgment, a subject called eschatology.

Signum

Signum is a Dutch trance act formed in 1997 in Zoetermeer by Ronald Hagen and Pascal Minnaard, best known for 'What Ya Got 4 Me'.

SignWriting

SignWriting (Sutton SignWriting) is a featural writing system for signed languages, invented by Valerie Sutton in 1974 from her DanceWriting notation; it uses iconic 2D symbol layouts, is Unicode-encoded, and is most widely used in Brazilian Deaf schools.

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver, 1949) is an American actress famous as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with three Oscar nominations, two Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and roles in Avatar and The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Sigrdrífumál

Sigrdrífumál, also spelled Sigurdrífumál, is an Old Norse heroic poem in the thirteenth-century Codex Regius in which the valkyrie Sigrdrífa teaches the dragon-slayer Sigurðr runic magic and moral wisdom.

Sigrid (singer)

Sigrid (Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, born 1996, Ålesund) is a Norwegian pop singer-songwriter; winner of BBC Sound of 2018, albums Sucker Punch, How to Let Go, There's Always More That I Could Say; Spellemannprisen winner. Not the Austrian duo Sigrid & Marina.

Sigrid Combüchen

Sigrid Combüchen is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, born in 1942 in Solingen, Germany, who debuted at eighteen in 1960 and won the August Prize for Spill in 2010.

Sigrid Thornton

Sigrid Thornton (born 1959, Canberra) is an Australian actor known for The Man from Snowy River, All the Rivers Run, SeaChange, and CBS's Paradise; Officer of the Order of Australia (2019) and inaugural NIDA Fellow.

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), Norwegian novelist and 1928 Nobel laureate in Literature, famous for the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter; Catholic convert, Nazi-banned author, wartime exile in the USA.

Sigrid Valdis

Sigrid Valdis (Patricia Annette Olson, 1935–2007), American actress who played Hilda, Colonel Klink's secretary on Hogan's Heroes, and married its star Bob Crane in 1970.

Sigrid Wolf

Sigrid Wolf, Austrian alpine skier born 1964 in Breitenwang, Tirol; won the first Olympic women's Super-G at Calgary 1988, 1989 world silver, five World Cup wins, career ended by knee injury in 1990.

Sigrun Fossae

Sigrun Fossae, a 970 km fossa (trough) system on Venus at 50.5°N, 18°E, IAU-approved 1985 and named for a Norse Valkyrie; namesake of the Sigrun Group plains deformed by graben.

Sigrun Wodars Grau

Sigrun Wodars Grau, née Ludwigs (born 1965), East German 800 m runner; 1988 Seoul Olympic champion, 1987 world champion, 1990 European champion; competed in 1992 as Sigrun Grau.

SIGSALY

SIGSALY, also known as Ciphony I, was the first secure voice encryption system, built by Bell Labs and used by the U.S. Army from 1943.

Sigstore

Sigstore is an open source project for software supply chain security, announced by the Linux Foundation in 2021, that lets developers sign and verify software artifacts such as container images using ephemeral signing keys.

SIGTRAN

SIGTRAN (Signalling Transport) is an IETF protocol suite, defined in RFC 2719 in 1999, for carrying telephony signaling protocols such as SS7 over IP networks.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, British new wave/glam punk band formed in London in 1982 by ex-Generation X bassist Tony James; hits "Love Missile F1-11" (UK No. 3) and "21st Century Boy"; albums Flaunt It and Dress for Excess.

Siguler Guff Distressed Opportunities Funds

The Siguler Guff Distressed Opportunities Funds are a series of private equity funds managed by New York firm Siguler Guff & Company, targeting distressed companies, asset-backed securities, and whole loans.

Siguler Guff Distressed Real Estate Opportunities Funds

Siguler Guff Distressed Real Estate Opportunities Funds (DREOF) are a series of private equity real estate funds managed from New York, investing in distressed commercial property, mortgages, and CMBS.

Siguler Guff Small Buyout

Siguler Guff Small Buyout is the small and lower-middle-market private equity strategy of New York firm Siguler Guff & Company, run through its Small Buyout Opportunities Funds.

Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós, Icelandic post-rock band formed in Reykjavík in 1994 by Jónsi, Georg Hólm and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson; known for bowed guitar, falsetto, Vonlenska, over 10 million albums sold, and the 2023 album ÁTTA.

Sigurd

Sigurd (Sigurðr Fáfnisbani), Norse equivalent of German Siegfried, is the dragon-slaying Völsung hero of the 13th-century Völsunga saga and Poetic Edda, rooted in the 437 destruction of Burgundy by Huns and retold by Wagner, Morris, and Tolkien.

Sigurd A. Sjoberg

Sigurd A. Sjoberg was an American aeronautical engineer who led NASA's flight operations through Apollo, helped return Apollo 13 safely, and was deputy director of the Johnson Space Center from 1972 to 1979.

Sigurd Holter

Sigurd Holter (1886–1963) was a Norwegian sailor with the KNS Oslo club who won gold in the 10-metre (1907 rating) class at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics aboard Eleda, the event's only entrant.