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SkyWater Technology
SkyWater Technology is an American semiconductor foundry headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, founded in 2017 and acquired by IonQ in 2026; it releases the open-source SKY130 process design kit.
Skywave
A skywave is a radio wave that travels upward and is refracted back to Earth by the ionosphere, reaching receivers far beyond the horizon; Marconi first demonstrated it in 1901.
Skyway
A skyway is an enclosed, elevated pedestrian walkway that connects buildings above street level, protecting walkers from weather; the first modern system opened in Minneapolis in 1962.
Skyway (Disney)
Skyway (Disney): gondola lift attraction between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland; opened at Disneyland June 23, 1956 (Von Roll system, 44 buckets, through the Matterhorn), closed November 1994; also Magic Kingdom 1971-1999 and Tokyo Disneyland 1983-1998.
Skyway Monte Bianco
Skyway Monte Bianco is an aerial cableway in Italy that climbs from Courmayeur to Punta Helbronner on Mont Blanc, opened in 2015 with rotating cabins.
SkyWest Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an American regional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah. Founded in 1972, it is the largest in the United States, flying for United, Delta, American, and Alaska.
Skywind
Skywind: fan-made, free total conversion mod for Skyrim Special Edition recreating The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind; TES Renewal Project, ~3,000 voiced characters, 27 skills restored, unreleased as of 2026.
Skyworks Solutions
Skyworks Solutions is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Irvine, California, that makes radio frequency front-end chips for smartphones, with Apple as a largest customer.
Skyworth Group
Skyworth Group (创维集团) is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese consumer electronics group founded by Huang Hongsheng in Shenzhen in 1988, known for televisions and, since 2025, photovoltaics.
SKZ-Replay 2026 Pt.1
SKZ-Replay 2026 Pt.1 (스키즈 리플레이 2026 파트 원) is a digital compilation album by South Korean boy group Stray Kids, released by JYP Entertainment on August 1, 2026.
SL-1
SL-1 (Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number 1) was a 3 MW experimental boiling water reactor for the US Army in Idaho, destroyed in 1961 by a power excursion and steam explosion.
Slab (car)
A slab is a customized car from Houston culture, typically an older American luxury car with protruding swanga wheels, candy paint, and a loud sound system.
Slab City, California
Slab City, also called the Last Free Place in America, is an off-grid squatter community of about 640 acres in Imperial County, California, on the concrete slabs of the former Camp Dunlap Marine base, with no utilities and state-owned land no resident can own.
Slab detachment
Slab detachment, also called slab break-off, is the separation of a dense subducted oceanic slab from lighter lithosphere during continental collision, after which the slab sinks into the mantle.
Slab pull
Slab pull is the force generated when the cold, dense edge of an oceanic plate sinks into the mantle at a subduction zone, and it is considered the main driving force of plate tectonics.
Slab rollback
Slab rollback is the seaward migration of the subduction hinge, driven by the negative buoyancy of the sinking slab, and is the leading model for back-arc basin formation.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, formerly the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Menlo Park, California, operated by Stanford University since 1962.
Slack (software)
Slack is a cloud-based team communication and collaboration platform, begun as an internal chat tool at game studio Tiny Speck and launched publicly in February 2014, owned by Salesforce since 2021.
Slack AI
Slack AI is Salesforce's set of AI features inside Slack, including conversation summaries, AI search answers, channel recaps, and the agentic Slackbot assistant built on Claude.
Slack Bay
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) is Bruno Dumont's 2016 French-German absurdist comedy, set in 1910 on the Bay of the Slack, starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, in Competition at Cannes 2016.
Slack Technologies
Slack Technologies, founded in 2009 as Tiny Speck by Flickr co-creator Stewart Butterfield, makes the Slack workplace messaging platform and has been owned by Salesforce since 2021.
Slack water
Slack water, also called slack tide, is when a tidal current's speed is near zero, occurring between the flood and ebb currents as the tide changes.
Slacker
A slacker is a person who shirks work or avoids exertion, and, since about 1995, a member of a generation seen as refusing to join the social mainstream.
Slacker (film)
Slacker is Richard Linklater's 1990/1991 no-plot indie comedy following over a hundred Austin, Texas eccentrics; shot on 16mm in summer 1989 for $23,000 and released by Orion Classics in July 1991.
Slacklining
Slacklining: balancing, walking, or tricklining on 2-5 cm stretchy synthetic webbing rigged between two anchors. Born in 1980s Yosemite climbing scene (Grosowsky, Ellington); disciplines include trickline, longline, waterline, and highline; used in balance training and rehabilitation.
Slacktivism
Slacktivism (slactivism), also called clicktivism or hashtag activism, is low-effort online support for causes, coined positively in 1995 by Fred Clark and Dwight Ozard, now a pejorative with mixed research verdicts.
Slackware
Slackware, also known as Slackware Linux, is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding, first released in July 1993 and the oldest still maintained, known for plain text configuration and a BSD-style init.
Slađana Milošević
Slađana Milošević (Слађана Милошевић), born Aleksandra Milošević, was a Serbian singer from Belgrade, a defining figure of Yugoslav new wave whose "Princeza" was 1984's best-selling single.
Slade
Slade: English glam rock band formed in Wolverhampton in 1966, also styled Ambrose Slade and Slade II. Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea, Don Powell; 17 consecutive UK Top 20 hits 1971–76, six No.1s, "Merry Xmas Everybody".
Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton (Thomas Slade Gorton III, 1928–2020), Republican U.S. senator from Washington 1981–1987 and 1989–2001, three-term state attorney general, 9/11 commissioner, known for tribal-rights and environmental feuds and losing to Cantwell by 2,229 votes in 2000.