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Smith & Wesson Model 19
The Smith & Wesson Model 19 is a six-shot double-action revolver chambered in .357 Magnum on the K-frame, introduced in 1955 and long carried by US police.
Smith & Wesson Model 2
The Smith & Wesson Model 2, known as the Model No. 2 Army, was a six-shot single-action tip-up revolver in .32 rimfire produced from 1861 to 1874.
Smith & Wesson Model 27
The Smith & Wesson Model 27, first sold in 1935 as the Registered Magnum, is a six-shot N-frame revolver and the first ever chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge.
Smith & Wesson Model 29
The Smith & Wesson Model 29 is a six-shot double-action revolver chambered in .44 Magnum, introduced in 1955 and made famous by Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Dirty Harry.
Smith & Wesson Model 3
The Smith & Wesson Model 3 is a single-action, top-break revolver introduced in 1870, the first large-caliber, centerfire, cartridge revolver made in the United States.
Smith & Wesson Model 36
The Smith & Wesson Model 36, originally marketed as the Chief's Special, is a five-shot .38 Special revolver introduced in October 1950 and named by police chiefs.
Smith & Wesson Model 39
The Smith & Wesson Model 39, or S&W Model 39, is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1955 as the first American-made double-action auto-loading pistol.
Smith & Wesson Model 500
The Smith & Wesson Model 500 is a five-shot double-action revolver introduced in 2003, built on the X-frame for the powerful .500 S&W Magnum cartridge.
Smith & Wesson Model 5906
The Smith & Wesson Model 5906 is an all-stainless-steel 9mm pistol with a 15-round magazine, produced from 1989 to 1999 and widely carried by American police.
Smith & Wesson Model 686
The Smith & Wesson Model 686 is a stainless-steel, double-action revolver chambered in .357 Magnum, introduced in 1980 on Smith & Wesson's L-frame for police and civilian shooters.
Smith chart
The Smith chart, also known as the Mizuhashi chart, is a circular graphical calculator that maps reflection coefficient to impedance for radio-frequency engineers, devised by Phillip H. Smith in 1939.
Smith Cloud
The Smith Cloud is a massive high-velocity cloud of hydrogen in the constellation Aquila that is falling toward the Milky Way's disk, discovered by Gail Smith in the 1960s.
Smith College
Smith College is a private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, founded 1871 by Sophia Smith's bequest, opened 1875; known for its open curriculum, no-loans aid, Five College Consortium membership, and first women's-college engineering degree.
Smith County, Texas, United States
Smith County, Texas: East Texas county established 1846, named for General James Smith; county seat Tyler, sole county of the Tyler MSA. 2020 census 233,479; 2025 estimate 252,549; rose industry and East Texas oilfield history.
Smith Hart
Smith Hart, born Smith Stewart Hart (1948–2017), was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer, eldest of Stu and Helen Hart's twelve children, brother of Bret and Owen.
Smith Inlet (inlet)
Smith Inlet: ice-filled inlet, 15 mi long, between Cape Boggs and Cape Collier on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS in 1940, once mislabeled Stefansson Inlet, named for Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith, USCG.
Smith Island
Smith Island, the southwesternmost island of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named for explorer William Smith; 40 km long, rising to about 2,100 m at Mount Foster, with blueschist subduction-complex rocks metamorphosed 58-47 Ma.
Smith machine
Smith machine: guided-barbell gym equipment with a fixed vertical or angled bar path, safety hooks, and stops. Invented in the 1950s from Jack LaLanne's design by Rudy Smith; free weight squats show 43% higher overall EMG.
Smith Micro Software
Smith Micro Software is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania software company founded in 1982 that develops white-label family safety and messaging solutions sold to wireless carriers and cable operators.
Smith Mountain Lake
Smith Mountain Lake is a 20,600-acre reservoir in south-central Virginia near Roanoke, created in 1963 by damming the Roanoke River as part of Appalachian Power's pumped storage project.
Smith normal form
The Smith normal form is a canonical diagonal form of a matrix over a principal ideal domain, introduced by Henry John Stephen Smith in 1861.
Smith Peninsula (landform)
Smith Peninsula: an ice-covered, dog-legged peninsula on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Keller and Nantucket Inlets, named for Walter "Smitty" Smith; also several peninsulas in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Nunavut.
Smith predictor
The Smith predictor is a model-based control structure, proposed by Otto J. M. Smith in 1957, that compensates for long dead time by feeding back a delay-free model prediction.
Smith Ranch-Highland
Smith Ranch-Highland is a uranium in situ recovery mining complex in Converse County, Wyoming, operated by Cameco Resources and the largest US uranium facility by licensed capacity.
Smith Rock State Park
Smith Rock State Park is a 650-acre Oregon state park near Redmond and Terrebonne, a world-renowned sport climbing destination with over 2,000 routes on welded tuff cliffs above the Crooked River, drawing about 746,000 visitors annually.
Smith Sound
Smith Sound: channel at the northern end of Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, southernmost part of Nares Strait leading to Kane Basin; explored by Kane, Hayes, Hall, and Nares; site of gap winds and the North Water polynya.
Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd
Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd [2024] NZSC 5 is a New Zealand Supreme Court climate tort case in which Ngāpuhi elder Mike Smith's public nuisance, negligence, and novel climate system damage claims against seven emitters were reinstated for trial.
Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School
Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School (SVAHS) is a public grades 9-12 vocational and agricultural high school in Northampton, Massachusetts, opened in 1908 as the state's first vocational school from Oliver Smith's bequest, with 15 Chapter 74 programs and lottery admission.
Smith Wigglesworth
Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) was an English Pentecostal evangelist and healing minister, a Bradford plumber who began international healing campaigns at about age 55 after his 1907 Spirit baptism.
Smith-Magenis syndrome
Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS, 17p11.2 deletion syndrome) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a 17p11.2 deletion (~90%) or RAI1 variant (~10%), with intellectual disability, inverted melatonin secretion, sleep disturbance, and self-injurious behavior.