All articles starting with S

Slow Jamz

Slow Jamz is a 2003 hip-hop single by Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, produced by West and sampling Luther Vandross's "A House Is Not a Home." It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2004 and appears on both Kamikaze and The College Dropout.

Slow light

Slow light is the reduction of the group velocity of a light pulse far below its vacuum speed of about 300,000 km/s, using dispersion in materials or photonic structures.

Slow loris

Slow loris (Nycticebus): nocturnal venomous strepsirrhine primates of South and Southeast Asia, nine species, brachial-gland-plus-saliva venom, CITES Appendix I, Endangered from pet trade and habitat loss.

Slow match

A slow match, or match cord, is chemically treated cord that smolders slowly without an open flame, used to ignite matchlock firearms and some cannons.

Slow muscle cell

Slow muscle cell (slow-twitch, type I fiber): oxidative, fatigue-resistant skeletal muscle cell defined by MyHC I expression; soleus-rich, 10:5:1 power ratio versus fast fibers, high lipid storage, atrophy-resistant with aging.

Oct 22, 2026

Slow Poems

Slow Poems (Hebrew: Shirim Itiyim) is a poetry collection by the Israeli poet Meir Wieseltier, published in Tel Aviv in 2000, the year he received the Israel Prize.

Slow pyrolysis

Slow pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of biomass at a low heating rate and long residence time without oxygen, producing biochar as its main product.

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P.

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P. (Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P.) is the only EP and second release by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released March 1999 on Constellation (CST006) and Kranky (KRANK 034), with two tracks, Moya and BBF3, totaling about 28:36.

Slow sand filter

A slow sand filter is a drinking-water treatment device in which water passes slowly through fine sand, whose biologically active surface layer removes pathogens; first used at Paisley, Scotland, in 1804.

Slow scan television

Slow scan television (SSTV) is an amateur radio method for sending still images as audio tones within a 3 kHz voice channel, conceived by Copthorne MacDonald in 1957.

Oct 22, 2026

Slow sound

Slow sound is the propagation of acoustic waves far below the normal speed of sound, produced by strong dispersion from local resonances in acoustic metamaterials.

Sep 29, 2026

Slow strain rate testing

Slow strain rate testing (SSRT) is a corrosion test that pulls a metal specimen to failure in a harsh environment to screen for stress corrosion cracking.

Slow Train Coming

Slow Train Coming is Bob Dylan's 1979 Columbia album, his first after converting to born-again Christianity, recorded at Muscle Shoals with Jerry Wexler, Barry Beckett, and Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler; its single Gotta Serve Somebody won a Grammy.

Slow transit constipation

Slow transit constipation (STC) is a chronic colonic motility disorder in which stool moves abnormally slowly through the colon, causing infrequent bowel movements, hard stools, and abdominal discomfort.

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York, investing since 2011 with early positions in Slack, Venmo, and PillPack.

Slow West

Slow West (2015) is John Maclean's feature-debut revisionist Western, a UK/New Zealand co-production starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee, set in 1870 Colorado but shot in New Zealand, winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

Slow-roll parameters

Slow-roll parameters are small dimensionless quantities measuring how slowly the inflaton field driving cosmic inflation changes as the universe expands; inflation ends where the first parameter reaches 1.

Sep 29, 2026

Slow-start (computer networks)

Slow-start is the startup phase of TCP congestion control, in which the sender's congestion window grows exponentially, doubling each round trip, until capacity or a threshold is reached.

Slow-wave sleep

Slow-wave sleep (SWS, deep sleep, stage N3) is the deepest NREM sleep stage, defined by high-amplitude 0.5–2 Hz delta waves on EEG, homeostatically regulated, central to memory consolidation, and reduced with aging.

Slowdive

Slowdive: English shoegaze/dream pop band formed in Reading in 1989 by Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell; albums Just for a Day, Souvlaki, Pygmalion, then 2014 reunion and Slowdive (2017), everything is alive (2023).

Slowhand

Slowhand is Eric Clapton's fifth solo studio album, released 25 November 1977 on RSO Records, produced by Glyn Johns at Olympic Studios, London. Known for "Cocaine", "Lay Down Sally", and "Wonderful Tonight", it reached the Top 10 in 8 countries.

Slowinski Biosphere Reserve

Slowinski Biosphere Reserve (Słowiński Rezerwat Biosfery), Polish UNESCO MAB site nominated 1976 on the Baltic coast between Leba and Rowy, 112,763 ha, centered on Słowiński National Park and its mobile dunes.

Slowloris (cyberattack)

Slowloris is a denial-of-service attack tool released by researcher RSnake in 2009 that exhausts web servers by holding many incomplete HTTP connections open with little bandwidth.

Slowly changing dimension

A slowly changing dimension (SCD) is a data warehousing technique, introduced by Ralph Kimball in 1996, for managing changes to dimension attributes by overwriting, adding rows, or adding columns.

Slowly pulsating B-type star

A slowly pulsating B-type star, or slow pulsator, is a late-B main-sequence star of 2.5 to 8 solar masses pulsating in gravity modes over roughly 0.5 to 3 days.

Sep 19, 2026

Slowly We Rot

Slowly We Rot is the 1989 debut album by Florida death metal band Obituary, recorded at Morrisound in Tampa with Scott Burns and credited with shaping death metal's blueprint.

Slowpoke

Slowpoke (Yadon, ヤドン) is Pokémon #0079, a Water/Psychic 'Dopey Pokémon' from Generation 1. It evolves into Slowbro (level 37) or Slowking (King's Rock trade), and its Galarian Psychic form branches into Poison/Psychic Galarian Slowbro and Slowking.

Slowthai

Slowthai is the stage name of Tyron Frampton (born 1994), an English rapper from Northampton blending grime, punk, and UK hip hop; albums Nothing Great About Britain, Tyron (UK No. 1), and Ugly; acquitted of rape charges in December 2024.

SLP adapter and CSK-interacting membrane protein

SCIMP (SLP adapter and CSK-interacting membrane protein) is a 150-aa palmitoylated transmembrane adaptor of B cells, dendritic cells, and macrophages; a non-TIR scaffold for Lyn, Syk, and Erk1/2 in TLR, MHC-II, and Dectin-1 signaling, driving selective IL-6 and IL-12p40 production.