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Sling procedure
The sling procedure is a surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women that places a tension-free polypropylene mesh band under the midurethra; about 80% of women become dry, and 70% remain dry at 5 years.
Sling surgery
Sling surgery is a urologic procedure that places a strip of mesh or tissue beneath the urethra to treat stress urinary incontinence in women, often combined with prolapse repair.
Sling TV
Sling TV is DISH Network's live over-the-top TV streaming service, launched nationwide February 9, 2015 at $20/month. Known for low-cost customizable plans (Orange, Blue, Essentials), 50-hour cloud DVR, and missing CBS/local channels in some markets.
Slingsby Aviation
Slingsby Aviation, originally Slingsby Sailplanes, was a British aircraft manufacturer at Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, best known for wooden training gliders from the 1930s and the T.67 Firefly military trainer.
Slingsby Hengist
The Slingsby Hengist was a British wooden troop-carrying military glider of the Second World War, of which eighteen were built, fourteen serving with the Royal Air Force.
Slingsby T.21
The Slingsby T.21, known in RAF service as the Sedbergh TX Mk.1, is a British two-seat, open-cockpit training glider first flown in 1944 that trained Air Training Corps cadets until the mid-1980s.
Slingshot
A slingshot, also called a wrist rocket or gulel, is a hand-held projectile launcher whose stretched elastic bands propel a small projectile from a Y-shaped frame.
Slinky
Slinky: helical spring toy invented 1943 by Richard T. James, named by Betty James; walks down stairs, sold over 300 million, National Toy Hall of Fame 2000, physics wave demo.
Slint
Slint: Louisville, Kentucky rock band formed 1986 (McMahan, Pajo, Walford, Buckler/Brashear), also called a post-rock progenitor. Albums Tweez (1989) and Spiderland (1991, Touch and Go); broke up before Spiderland's release, reunited 2005.
Slintel
Slintel was a B2B sales and marketing intelligence company founded by Deepak Anchala and Rahul Bhattacharya that sold technographic data and buying-intent signals before its 2021 acquisition by 6sense.
Sliotar
Sliotar: the leather-covered ball of hurling and camogie, 69–72 mm and 110–116 g under GAA Rule 4.4, now fluorescent yellow (Pantone 388), with chipped Smart Sliotars used in inter-county games.
Slip
Slip is a 2023 seven-episode Roku Channel comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Zoe Lister-Jones, in which Mae Cannon slips into parallel universes, each married to a different partner, after a one-night stand.
Slip (aerodynamics)
A slip, also called a side slip, is uncoordinated flight in which the airplane moves somewhat sideways through the air; pilots use it to lose altitude or counter crosswinds.
Slip (materials science)
Slip is the dominant mechanism of plastic deformation in crystalline materials, carried by dislocations sliding atom planes along specific slip systems and causing work hardening.
Slip casting
Slip casting is a ceramic forming method in which a water-based clay slurry is poured into a porous plaster mold that absorbs the liquid, leaving a solid cast layer.
Slip detection
Slip detection is the recognition by a robotic or prosthetic gripper that a grasped object is moving, so grip force can be adjusted before it drops.
Slip flow
Slip flow is fluid flow where the fluid has a finite velocity at a solid boundary, replacing the no-slip condition; in rarefied gases it applies at Knudsen numbers between 0.01 and 0.1.
Slip forming
Slip forming, also called slipforming or sliding formwork, is a concrete construction method in which continuously moving formwork produces joint-free structures such as towers, chimneys, silos, and bridge pylons.
Slip length
Slip length is the length parameter in the Navier slip boundary condition, introduced by Claude-Louis Navier in 1823, describing how a fluid slips along a solid surface.
Slip of the Tongue
Slip of the Tongue is the eighth studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, released in November 1989 and peaking at number 10 on the UK and US charts.
Slip ring
A slip ring, also called a collector ring, is an electromechanical device that transmits power and signals between a stationary structure and a rotating one.
Slip system
A slip system is the combination of a crystallographic slip plane and a slip direction along which dislocation motion produces plastic deformation in crystalline materials such as metals.
Slip-on shoe
Slip-on shoe (スリッポン): any laceless shoe, from loafers to Vans Classic Slip-On and Chelsea boots, held on by elastic gores or last shape; defined by customs, history of the loafer, fit and foot-health guidance.
Slipher (lunar crater)
Slipher is a ~70–75 km impact crater on the Moon's farside at about 48.3°N, 160.5°E, on the southwestern rim of d'Alembert, named for astronomer Vesto M. Slipher; its wall hosts a lobate thrust-fault scarp and its ejecta embays d'Alembert's light plains.
Slipher (Martian crater)
Slipher is an impact crater on Mars named for Lowell Observatory astronomers Vesto M. and Earl C. Slipher, Mars observers and cartographers; a separate lunar crater of the same name exists.
Slipknot (album)
Slipknot (1999) is the self-titled debut album by Iowa metal band Slipknot, produced by Ross Robinson for Roadrunner Records; it went platinum by April 2000 and launched the masked nine-piece.
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot: American masked nine-piece heavy metal band formed 1995 in Des Moines, Iowa, numbered 0 to 8. Nu-metal-era act with death metal and thrash elements; platinum 1999 debut, Iowa (2001), 10 Grammy nominations, 2027 stadium tour.
Slipknot (comics)
Slipknot (Christopher Weiss), DC Comics supervillain created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan, debuting in The Fury of Firestorm #28 (1984); a rope-wielding former chemist, Firestorm foe, Suicide Squad member, and 2016 film character played by Adam Beach.
Slipknot discography
Slipknot discography: seven Roadrunner studio albums (1999–2022) by the Des Moines, Iowa metal band, plus the 1996 self-released Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., live albums, and reissues.
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE), also called slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), is an adolescent hip disorder where the femoral head displaces through the growth plate, most often in obese boys aged 10-16, treated by in situ screw fixation.