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Sinapis alba

Sinapis alba (white mustard, yellow mustard, syn. Brassica hirta), an annual Brassicaceae herb with 2n=24 (SS genome), grown for condiment seed rich in sinalbin, green manure, forage, and oil.

Sinapis arvensis

Sinapis arvensis, charlock or wild mustard (synonym Brassica kaber, NCBI name Mutarda arvensis), is an annual Brassicaceae weed of Eurasian and North African origin, naturalized worldwide, with light-requiring coat-imposed seed dormancy and ALS-inhibitor-resistant Turkish biotypes.

Sinar Mas (Eka Tjipta Widjaja and the Widjaja family fortune)

Sinar Mas is the Indonesian business fortune of Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who began selling biscuits in Makassar in 1938 and built pulp, paper, palm oil, and finance companies.

Sinar Mas Group

Sinar Mas Group is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded by Eka Tjipta Widjaja in 1938, operating through more than 400 companies including Asia Pulp & Paper.

Sinara

Sinara is a station on the Tabula Peutingeriana, the Roman road map, generally identified with Sinoria, Mithridates VI of Pontus' frontier fortress where he took refuge from Pompey in 66 BC.

Sinaranu

Sinaranu (Akkadian Ṣinaruna) was a private merchant of Bronze Age Ugarit whose ship and cargo of grain, beer, and olive oil were exempted from palace dues on arrival from Crete.

Sinatra (software)

Sinatra is an open-source web application framework and domain-specific language for quickly creating web applications in Ruby, begun by Blake Mizerany in 2006 and inspired by the microframework Camping.

SinB

SinB (Hwang Eun-bi) is a South Korean singer and dancer, born in 1998, who debuted in 2015 as main dancer of GFRIEND and joined VIVIZ in 2021.

Sinbad (comedian)

Sinbad, stage name of David Adkins (born 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan), is an American clean stand-up comedian and actor known for A Different World, HBO specials like Brain Damaged, films Houseguest and Jingle All the Way, and his 2026 comeback after a 2020 stroke.

Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad the Sailor (السندباد البحري): fictional Baghdadi merchant whose seven sea voyages form a celebrated cycle of One Thousand and One Nights, Arabic in origin, later incorporated into the Nights and brought to Europe by Antoine Galland (1704-1717).

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 DreamWorks animated adventure film directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore, with Brad Pitt voicing the pirate Sinbad.

Sinc function

The sinc function, also called the cardinal sine (sinus cardinalis), is defined as sin(x)/x with sinc(0) = 1, and is the Fourier transform of a rectangular pulse.

Sincalide

Sincalide (Kinevac) is a synthetic C-terminal octapeptide of cholecystokinin, FDA-approved since 1976, injected intravenously to stimulate gallbladder contraction, pancreatic secretion, and barium meal transit in diagnostic testing.

Sincan İlçesi

Sincan İlçesi, or Sincan District, is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in Türkiye's Central Anatolia Region, roughly 24 to 27 km west of the city center.

Since I Left You

Since I Left You, The Avalanches' 2000 debut album (international release 2001, Sire/Modular), a sample-collage electronic record built from roughly 900 to 3,500 vinyl samples, an ARIA-winning, critically acclaimed classic followed sixteen years later by Wildflower.

Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone: 2004 Kelly Clarkson pop-rock single from Breakaway, written by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, adapted from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Maps; peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a 2006 Grammy.

Since You Been Gone

"Since You Been Gone" is a 1975/1976 Russ Ballard rock song, best known through Rainbow's 1979 cover with Graham Bonnet, which peaked at No. 6 in the UK; distinct from Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

Sincelejo

Sincelejo, capital of Colombia's Sucre department in the Caribbean savanna, a livestock and trade city of about 314,000 people, founded as San Francisco de Asís de Sincelejo and refounded by Antonio de la Torre y Miranda in 1775.

Sincere Engineer

Sincere Engineer is the punk rock band of Chicago singer-songwriter Deanna Belos, started solo in 2015. Four albums: Rhombithian (2017, Red Scare), Bless My Psyche, Cheap Grills, Probable Claws (Hopeless Records).

Sincerely (Kali Uchis album)

Sincerely, (with comma) is Kali Uchis' fifth studio album, released May 9, 2025 on Capitol Records. A 14-track, mostly English R&B letter-collection dedicated to her late mother and newborn son, with no guest features.

SINCGARS

SINCGARS, the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System, is a family of VHF-FM combat net radios providing secure tactical command communications for U.S. Army units since 1988.

Sinch (company)

Sinch AB is a Swedish communications platform as a service company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, that lets businesses message customers via SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email through APIs.

Sinchesi

Sinchesi (신체시, "new-style poetry"), also called sinsi, was a Korean enlightenment-period verse form transitional between traditional song poetry and modern free verse, conventionally starting with Choi Nam-seon's 1908 poem.

Sinchi

Sinchi, Quechua for strong or valiant, was an Andean title for a temporary war leader, best known from Sinchi Roca, the second traditional Inca ruler.

Sinchi Roca

Sinchi Roca, also known as Sinchi Roq'a, was the semi-legendary second Sapa Inca of Cuzco, son and successor of Manco Capac and father of Lloque Yupanqui.

Sinchunmunye

Sinchunmunye (신춘문예, "New Year literary arts") is an annual literary contest held each winter by South Korean newspapers, the traditional gateway for unpublished writers to make their debut.

Sinclair (brand)

Sinclair is an American petroleum brand, identified by its green dinosaur logo DINO, founded by Harry F. Sinclair in 1916 and now owned by HF Sinclair Corporation.

Sinclair Beecham

Sinclair Beecham, born in 1958, is a British businessman who co-founded the sandwich chain Pret A Manger, opening its first shop on Victoria Street in London in 1986.

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG), broadcast subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) of Hunt Valley, Maryland: 179 stations in 81 markets, 656 channels, over 2,300 weekly news hours, Tennis Channel and multicast networks, after the 2023 holding-company reorganization.

Sinclair C5

The Sinclair C5 is a one-person battery-electric tricycle launched in the UK in 1985 by Sir Clive Sinclair, which failed commercially and became a cult classic.