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Six Records of a Floating Life
Six Records of a Floating Life (Fusheng liuji) is an autobiographical prose work by Qing dynasty writer Shen Fu, completed around 1808, recounting his marriage to Chen Yun and his travels.
Six Secret Teachings
The Six Secret Teachings (六韬) is a Chinese military and political treatise of the Warring States period, written as a dialogue between Jiang Ziya and the Zhou kings.
Six Shooter (2004 film)
Six Shooter is Martin McDonagh's 2004 Irish black comedy short (27 min) starring Brendan Gleeson and Rúaidhrí Conroy about a bereaved man's train journey; it won the 2006 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a data-driven method for improving business processes by reducing variation and defects, targeting 3.4 defects per million opportunities. Motorola developed it in 1986, and it is applied through the five-phase DMAIC cycle.
SIX Swiss Exchange
SIX Swiss Exchange, also known as the Swiss Stock Exchange, is Switzerland's stock exchange, operated by Zurich-based SIX Group since 2008, with about 250 listed companies.
Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono's 1985 parallel-thinking method: a group wears six colored hats in turn (white facts, red feelings, black risks, yellow benefits, green creativity, blue process) to structure discussion and decisions.
Six-axis force/torque sensor
A six-axis force/torque sensor is a transducer measuring three force and three torque components at once, usually mounted between a robot's flange and end-effector for force feedback.
Six-bar linkage
A six-bar linkage is a planar mechanism of six links and seven joints that moves with one degree of freedom and generates motions a four-bar linkage cannot.
Six-chambered gate
The six-chambered gate is an Iron Age fortified city gate type with three chambers flanking each side of a central passage, found at Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Six-cysteine peptide SCIFF
SCIFF (Six Cysteines in Forty-Five Residues) peptides are cysteine-rich RiPP natural products from clostridia, modified by radical SAM enzymes into ranthipeptide thioether crosslinks and involved in quorum sensing.
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War, called the June War by Arabs, was a 1967 war in which Israel quickly defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and captured Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights.
Six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory
The six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory is the quantum field theory living on M-theory's five-brane, in six dimensions with (2,0) supersymmetry and no known Lagrangian.
Six-Eared Macaque (六耳猕猴)
The Six-Eared Macaque (六耳猕猴， Liuer Mihou) is the impostor demon of chapters 56–58 of Journey to the West who duplicates Sun Wukong so exactly that only the Buddha can tell them apart; he is killed after exposure, and scholars read him as Wukong's shadow or 'second mind'.
Six-factor formula
The six-factor formula is an equation in nuclear reactor physics that gives a thermal reactor's effective multiplication factor as the product of six factors covering a neutron generation's life cycle.
Six-minute walk test
The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a self-paced clinical exercise test measuring the distance walked in six minutes, widely used in COPD and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Six-party talks
The Six-Party Talks (2003-2008) were Beijing-hosted, China-chaired multilateral negotiations among China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the United States on dismantling North Korea's nuclear program, yielding the 2005 Joint Statement before collapsing over verification in 2008-2009.
Six-qubit germanium quantum dot array
A six-qubit quantum dot array is a linear array of six gate-defined quantum dots, demonstrated at QuTech in Delft in 2021 as a record under universal control.
Six-red World Championship
Six-red World Championship: invitational non-ranking six-red snooker tournament held in Thailand since 2008, official world championship of the six-red variant since 2010; Ding Junhui the 2023 champion, event postponed since 2024.
Six-star rank
Six-star rank is an informal label for a U.S. grade above five-star General of the Army, associated with General of the Armies of the United States, held by Pershing, Washington, and Grant; no official six-star rank or insignia exists.
Six-state protocol
The six-state protocol (SSP) is a quantum key distribution scheme that encodes each key bit in six states across three bases, proposed in 1999 as a variant of BB84.
Six-vertex model
The six-vertex model is a statistical mechanics model on a square lattice where each vertex has two arrows in and two out, describing ice-type crystals.
SIX1
SIX1 (SIX Homeobox 1, sine oculis homeobox homolog 1) is a chromosome 14q23.1 homeobox transcription factor gene essential for embryonic organ development, mutated in BOR syndrome and DFNA23 deafness, and re-expressed as a poor-prognosis driver in breast, colorectal, and other cancers.
Six60
Six60 is a New Zealand pop-rock band from Dunedin formed by University of Otago students in 2008, named after their flat at 660 Castle Street.
Sixaxis
Sixaxis (SIXAXIS) is Sony's original wireless PlayStation 3 controller, launched 2006, with six-axis motion sensing (roll, pitch, yaw, X/Y/Z acceleration), Bluetooth and USB, no vibration; replaced by the DualShock 3 in late 2007.
Sixie Investment
Sixie Investment (思勰投资), also styled Sixie Capital, is a Shanghai quantitative hedge fund founded in January 2016 by three partners, managing roughly RMB 10 billion in assets.
Sixpence (British coin)
British sixpence (tanner): pre-decimal coin of six old pence, half a shilling, 1/40 of a pound. First struck 1551 under Edward VI, cupro-nickel after 1947, last circulated 1967, demonetised 30 June 1980; revived by the Royal Mint in 2016.
Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer, named after C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, is a New Braunfels, Texas pop-rock band led by Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum, known for the 1999 hit "Kiss Me," the 1997 self-titled album, a 2004 breakup, and the 2024 reunion EP Rosemary Hill.
Sixt
Sixt, also known as Sixt SE, is a German premium mobility and car rental group with over 2,300 branches and revenue of EUR 4 billion in 2024.
Sixt Karl Kapff
Sixt Karl Kapff, also spelled Sixt Carl, was a German Protestant clergyman who led Swabian Pietism within the Württemberg state church, serving as Stiftsprediger in Stuttgart from 1852.
Sixteen (2013 Indian film)
Sixteen is a 2013 Hindi drama, Raj Purohit's directorial debut, released 12 July 2013, starring Izabelle Leite, Wamiqa Gabbi, Mehak Manwani, and Highphill Mathew as Delhi teenagers; distinct from Rob Brown's 2013 British thriller of the same name.