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Sioux Power Plant
The Sioux Power Plant, also called the Sioux Energy Center, is a 1,099-megawatt coal-fired power station in West Alton, Missouri, whose two units went online in 1967 and 1968.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees: British post-punk/gothic rock band formed in London in 1976 by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin; 11 albums from The Scream (1978) to The Rapture (1995), top 10 hits Hong Kong Garden and Dear Prudence, and the Creatures side project.
Siouxsie and the Banshees discography
Siouxsie and the Banshees is an English rock band formed in London in 1976. They were active until 1996 and released 18 Top 40 hits in the U.K.
Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Dallion), English singer, led Siouxsie and the Banshees 1976–1996 and The Creatures with drummer Budgie, and released her solo debut Mantaray in 2007; a defining punk-to-goth figure.
SIP trunking
SIP trunking connects an organization's IP-based phone system, such as an IP-PBX, to the public switched telephone network over a SIP session from a provider.
Sip-and-puff
Sip-and-puff is an assistive technology input method in which a user controls devices by inhaling or exhaling through a mouthpiece, serving people with limited hand function.
Sipa
Sipa (시파) was a political faction of late Joseon Korea, formed from Noron officials under King Jeongjo's conciliation policy and dominant into the Sunjo reign.
Sipa Group (思派集团)
Sipa Group (思派集团) is a Chinese cancer-care and health-services platform founded in 2014 by Ma Xuguang, Li Ji, and Li Dayong, behind Hong Kong-listed Sipai Health (HKEX 0314).
Sipa Network (思派网络)
Sipa Network (思派网络) is a Chinese healthcare company founded in 2014, focused on oncology and specialty drugs; its successor, Sipa Health Technology, listed in Hong Kong under stock code 0314.
Sipahi (سپاهی)
Sipahi (سپاهی): Ottoman provincial cavalryman holding a timar revenue assignment in return for military service; backbone of Ottoman armies from the 14th to late 16th century, distinct from the salaried kapıkulu sipahi cavalry division.
Sipahi cavalry
The sipahi cavalry was the mounted arm of the Ottoman army, made up of timar-holding provincial cavalrymen and a salaried household corps, dominant until the mid-16th century.
Sipat power station
Sipat power station, or Sipat Super Thermal Power Station, is a 2,980 MW coal-fired power station operated by NTPC at Sipat in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, India.
Sipay
Sipay is a Turkish fintech company founded in 2019 by Nezih Sipahioğlu and headquartered in Istanbul, offering payment processing, digital wallets, embedded finance, and foreign-exchange services.
SiPearl
SiPearl is a French fabless semiconductor startup based in Maisons-Laffitte, founded by Philippe Notton in 2019 to design low-power Arm processors for high-performance computing and AI.
Siphiwe Tshabalala
Siphiwe Tshabalala (Lawrence Siphiwe Tshabalala, "Shabba"), South African left winger born 1984 in Soweto; scored the opening goal of the 2010 World Cup for Bafana Bafana against Mexico; long-serving Kaizer Chiefs midfielder, 91 caps, retired 2021.
Sipho Chaine
Sipho Justin Chaine (born 1996) is a South African goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana; he set the PSL single-season clean-sheet record (21 in 2025/26) and won the 2024/25 Goalkeeper of the Season award.
Sipho Nkosi
Sipho Nkosi, born 1954, is a South African businessman who founded Eyesizwe Coal, led coal producer Exxaro Resources until 2016, and co-chairs the investment group Talent10 Holdings.
Sipho Sepamla
Sipho Sepamla, born Sydney Sipho Sepamla, was a South African poet, novelist, and activist based in Soweto, a leading poet of the 1970s Black Consciousness era.
Siphon
A siphon, also called the siphon effect, is an inverted U-shaped tube that carries liquid from a higher reservoir to a lower discharge point without a pump once primed.
Siphon (mollusc)
Siphon (mollusc): a tubular mantle extension in bivalves, with incurrent and excurrent tubes for feeding and respiration. Siphonate burrowers comprise almost 60% of extant marine bivalve species and burrow deeper and faster than nonsiphonate taxa.
Siphon recorder
The siphon recorder, also written syphon recorder, is an instrument for receiving signals on submarine telegraph cables, invented by William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, in 1867.
Siphon spillway
A siphon spillway is a closed conduit over a dam crest that passes flood water by siphonic action, with no moving parts and minimal rise in reservoir level.
Siphonaptera
Siphonaptera, the fleas, is an order of wingless holometabolous blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals and birds, about 2,215 species in 19 extant families, sister to Boreidae within Mecoptera, Cretaceous in origin.
Siphonodella
Siphonodella is an extinct conodont genus (Branson and Mehl, 1944) ranging from the latest Famennian to middle Tournaisian; Siphonodella sulcata defines the Carboniferous base, and its P1-element taxonomy underpins Tournaisian conodont zones.
Siphonophorae
Siphonophorae, an order of colonial hydrozoan cnidarians including the Portuguese man o' war; colonies of specialized zooids, about 175-192 species, ten nematocyst types, no fossil record.
Siphonophore anatomy and colony biology
Siphonophore anatomy and colony biology explains how siphonophores, colonial hydrozoans whose zooids bud from one embryo and share labor for feeding, swimming, flotation, and reproduction, grow and develop.
Siphonophore ecology
Siphonophore ecology is the study of how siphonophores, hydrozoan colonies that act as single ambush predators, feed and distribute themselves from the ocean surface to depths below 7000 m.
Siphonopidae
Siphonopidae is a family of caecilians, the limbless burrowing amphibians of South America, with 29 species in five genera; its best-studied member is the ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus.
Siphoviridae
Siphoviridae, former family of tailed dsDNA bacteriophages with long non-contractile tails (65–570 nm), accepted by ICTV 1981–1984, abolished in the 2022 taxonomy update; members now classified genome-based under Caudoviricetes.
Sipia
Sipia was a Gallo-Roman relay station on the Tabula Peutingeriana, on the road between Condate (Rennes) and Juliomagus (Angers), probably near Visseiche, Ille-et-Vilaine, France; also a genus of antbirds.