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Sleigh Ride
Sleigh Ride, also known in French as Promenade en traîneau, is Leroy Anderson's 1948 light orchestral rondo in rondo form, premiered by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops; Mitchell Parish added Christmas-neutral lyrics in 1950, and ASCAP has repeatedly ranked it the most-played American Christmas song.
Sleight
Sleight is a 2016 American sci-fi crime drama, the debut feature of J.D. Dillard, starring Jacob Latimore as a street magician who deals drugs and uses an electromagnetic implant to rescue his kidnapped sister; Sundance 2016, BH Tilt release, $250,000 budget.
Sleight of hand
Sleight of hand, also called legerdemain or prestidigitation, is the art of deceiving spectators through adroit hand movements in magic and card tricks, documented since 2500 BCE and studied today in attention and perception research.
Sleipner carbon storage
Sleipner carbon storage is a carbon capture and storage project in the Norwegian North Sea, injecting about one million tonnes of CO2 a year into the Utsira aquifer since 1996.
Sleipner Field
Sleipner is a group of gas and condensate fields in the central Norwegian North Sea, operated by Equinor, hosting the world's first industrial-scale carbon storage project since 1996.
Sleipner gas field
Sleipner is a group of gas and condensate fields in the central North Sea, Norwegian blocks 15/6 and 15/9, operated by Equinor and producing since 1993.
Sleipnir
Sleipnir (Old Norse Sleipnir) is Odin's eight-legged grey horse in Norse mythology, born of Loki as a mare and the stallion Svaðilfari, the best of horses, ridden to Hel and depicted on Gotland's Viking Age picture stones.
Sleipnir Fossa
Sleipnir Fossa is a long trough-like fault on Pluto, IAU-named in 2017 for Odin's eight-legged horse. Longest fracture of the icy spider, over 580 km, radial NE-SW troughs in methane-nitrogen terrain.
Slender Gold script
Slender Gold script (瘦金體) is a style of Chinese regular script calligraphy created in 1104 by Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, known for its slender, taut, sharply pointed strokes.
Slender Man
Slender Man (Slenderman), a fictional faceless suited figure created by Eric Knudsen (Victor Surge) on Something Awful in 2009, became a creepypasta legend spread through Marble Hornets, video games, and films, and motivated the 2014 Waukesha stabbing.
Slender Man (film)
Slender Man (2018) is a Sony Screen Gems supernatural horror film directed by Sylvain White, based on Eric Knudsen's creepypasta character, starring Joey King and Javier Botet; it earned $30.5 million but scored 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Slender Man stabbing
Slender Man stabbing: May 2014 attempted murder in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times to please the fictional creepypasta character; both were found not guilty by reason of mental disease.
Slender salamander
Slender salamanders, genus Batrachoseps, are 21 species of lungless plethodontid salamanders of western North America, worm-like with tiny limbs, highly genetically structured, including introduced B. major populations.
Slender Tailed Mongoose
Slender tailed mongoose, or slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus, sometimes Galerella sanguinea), a widespread diurnal African mongoose with a black-tipped tail, Least Concern, ranging from Senegal to South Africa.
Slender-body theory
Slender-body theory is a fluid-mechanics method approximating forces and flows around long, thin bodies in viscous flow, replacing the 3D body with a 1D force distribution along its centerline.
Slender: The Arrival
Slender: The Arrival is a 2013 first-person survival horror game by Blue Isle Studios with Parsec Productions' Mark Hadley and Marble Hornets writers, following Lauren searching for Kate while stalked by Slender Man; it received a 2023 10th Anniversary Update.
Slender: The Eight Pages
Slender: The Eight Pages is a 2012 free indie horror game by Parsec Productions and Mark Hadley in which players collect eight pages in a dark forest while evading the faceless Slender Man; it sparked the YouTube Let's Play horror boom and preceded Slender: The Arrival (2013).
Slenderness ratio
The slenderness ratio is a dimensionless measure of a compression member's tendency to buckle rather than crush, defined as effective length divided by its least radius of gyration.
Slepian–Wolf coding
Slepian–Wolf coding losslessly compresses correlated data sources with separate encoders and a joint decoder, from a 1973 theorem by David Slepian and Jack Keil Wolf.
Slepton
A slepton is the hypothetical spin-0 superpartner of a Standard Model lepton in supersymmetric extensions of particle physics, including the selectron, smuon, stau, and sneutrinos; none has been observed.
Slesha
Slesha (Telugu శ్లేష; Sanskrit śleṣa) is a figure of speech in classical Indian poetics in which a single word or phrase carries two or more meanings simultaneously.
Slessor Peak
Slessor Peak: mainly ice-covered 2,370 m peak at the SW end of Bruce Plateau, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, near Gould Glacier; surveyed 1946-47 by FIDS and named for Robert S. Slessor. Distinct from Slessor Glacier in East Antarctica.
Sleuth (1972 film)
Sleuth (1972), also released as La huella, is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's final film, adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his Tony-winning play, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in a two-hander battle of wits, with four Oscar nominations and famously fictitious supporting cast credits.
Slew rate
Slew rate is the maximum rate at which an amplifier's output voltage can change, specified in V/µs; exceeding it distorts the waveform. It is a large-signal limitation.
Slewing crane
A slewing crane, in practice usually called a slewing jib crane, is a lifting machine with a horizontal jib that rotates about a vertical axis, carrying a hoist for workstation lifting.
Slice of life
Slice of life: term for presenting unshaped everyday experience, originating in Zola's theatrical naturalism (fourth wall, detailed sets, open endings) and used in fiction, film, and anime-related genres.
Slice preparation
Slice preparation: cutting 300–400 µm living brain sections for acute electrophysiology or long-term organotypic culture, from Harrison's 1907 explant to Stoppini's 1991 membrane-interface method, with ice-cold ACSF cutting and 6–12 hour acute viability.
Slice sampling
Slice sampling is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method introduced by Radford M. Neal in 2003 that samples from a density by uniformly sampling the region under its curve.
Sliced bread
Sliced bread, pre-cut and wrapped loaves first sold July 7, 1928 by Chillicothe Baking Co., Missouri, using Otto Rohwedder's automatic bread-slicing machine; source of the phrase "best thing since sliced bread" and banned briefly in 1943.
Sliced inverse regression
Sliced inverse regression (SIR) is a statistical dimension reduction method that finds linear combinations of predictors carrying a response's information, introduced by Ker-Chau Li in 1991.