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Snowfall (song)
Snowfall (lowercase "snowfall") ambient single by Russians Øneheart (Dmitry Volynkin) and reidenshi (Yevgeny Chirkov), released January 14, 2022 on Dreamscape; went viral on TikTok, near one billion Spotify streams, RIAA double platinum.
Snowfall (TV series)
Snowfall is an FX crime drama (2017-2023, six seasons, 60 episodes) created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, following Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and the CIA-linked rise of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
Snowflake
A snowflake is an ice crystal, or aggregate of crystals, that forms in clouds and grows while falling, with six arms shaped by temperature and humidity.
Snowflake (gorilla)
Snowflake (Floquet de Neu, Copito de Nieve), the only known albino gorilla, a Western lowland gorilla from Equatorial Guinea housed at Barcelona Zoo 1966-2003; SLC45A2 recessive mutation from inbreeding.
Snowflake (slang)
Snowflake (slang): derogatory English term for a person seen as overly sensitive or easily offended, popularized by Fight Club, politicized after 2015–2016 as a right-wing insult toward liberals and the 'snowflake generation.'
Snowflake Cortex
Snowflake Cortex is Snowflake's suite of LLM-based AI features, including Cortex Analyst, AI Functions, Search, Agents, and the Cortex Code coding agent (now Snowflake CoCo), running inside Snowflake's governed security perimeter.
Snowflake data breach
The Snowflake data breach was a 2024 extortion campaign in which attackers used infostealer malware to access Snowflake customers' accounts, affecting Ticketmaster, AT&T, and Santander.
Snowflake divertor
The snowflake divertor is an advanced tokamak divertor configuration in which two nearby magnetic nulls form a snowflake-shaped separatrix, spreading heat exhaust over four strike points.
Snowflake Inc.
Snowflake Inc., also known as Snowflake Computing, is an American cloud data platform company founded in 2012, offering data warehousing, data sharing, and AI services.
Snowflake schema
The snowflake schema is a data warehouse design, a variation of the star schema, in which normalized dimension tables are split into sub-dimension tables, reducing redundancy but adding query joins.
Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration
Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration (SVD, OMIM 193230) is a rare autosomal dominant vitreoretinopathy with retinal snowflake deposits, fibrillar vitreous degeneration, early cataract, corneal guttae, and retinal detachment risk, caused by KCNJ13 (Kir7.1) mutations.
SnowGlobe Music Festival
SnowGlobe Music Festival was a three-day New Year's Eve music festival in South Lake Tahoe, California, founded by Chad Donnelly in 2011 and permanently canceled in August 2021.
Snowmaking
Snowmaking, also called technical or artificial snow production, uses snow guns (fan and air–water types) to make snow from water and air at wet-bulb temperatures below about −1.5 °C; invented in 1934, it now equips most Alpine and US ski slopes.
Snowman
Snowman: humanlike figure sculpted from snow, typically three stacked snowballs; built best with 3-8% moisture snow at 0-2°C; first depicted around 1380; record Olympia, 122 ft, Bethel, Maine, 2008.
Snowman (horse)
Snowman (1948-1974), also "The Cinderella Horse," was a grey mixed-breed ex-plow horse bought for $80 off a slaughter truck in 1956 by Harry de Leyer who became the 1958 American show jumping Triple Crown champion.
Snowmelt freshet
A snowmelt freshet is the pronounced rise in river flow, often the annual peak, caused when a basin's winter snowpack melts in spring or early summer.
Snowmelt runoff
Snowmelt runoff is the portion of melting snow that flows over the land surface into streams and rivers, supplying much of the springtime water in colder climates.
Snowmelt Runoff Model
The Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) is a degree-day-based, semi-distributed model that simulates and forecasts daily streamflow in mountain basins, developed by Jaroslav Martinec in 1975.
Snowmelt system
A snowmelt system is an installation that melts snow and ice from pavement such as driveways, sidewalks, and bridge decks using embedded pipes or electric heating.
Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also called a skimobile or motor sledge, is a land vehicle that travels over snow on a rubber track, steered by front-mounted skis.
Snowpack (software)
Snowpack was a frontend build tool for JavaScript development, created by Fred K. Schott, that served apps as individual ES Modules instead of bundling, an approach called unbundled development.
Snowpark (South Korea)
Snowparks in South Korea: indoor winter theme parks like Onemount Snowpark in Ilsan, resort sledding parks such as Gyeongju World Snow Park and Phoenix Snow Park, and Seoul's Hangang Park sledding hills, covering facilities, seasons, and prices.
Snowpiercer (graphic novel series)
Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) is a French post-apocalyptic graphic novel series by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, serialized 1982–83, about a class-divided perpetual train on a frozen Earth, later adapted into Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film and a TV series.
Snowpiercer (TV series)
Snowpiercer (TV series), American post-apocalyptic drama adapted from Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette's graphic novels and Bong Joon Ho's 2013 film; 1,001-car train, four seasons 2020-2024, starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs, ending on AMC.
Snowpiercer (설국열차)
Snowpiercer (설국열차) is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science-fiction action film directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, and Tilda Swinton, about survivors aboard a train circling a frozen Earth.
Snowplow (company)
Snowplow is a London-based behavioral data and customer data infrastructure company founded in 2012 by Alex Dean and Yali Sassoon. It offers event pipelines, Snowplow Signals, and source-available licensing from 2024, distinct from snow-clearing equipment makers.
Snowshoe cat
Snowshoe cat: American cat breed from 1960s Philadelphia, founded by Dorothy Hinds-Daugherty from white-footed Siamese kittens crossed with bicolor American Shorthair; TICA championship breed since 1994, seal or blue pointed with white feet.
Snowshoe hare
Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), also called varying hare, a North American boreal hare with large hind feet and a brown-to-white seasonal coat molt; cycles 9-11 years, primary prey of Canada lynx, threatened by camouflage mismatch from shrinking snow.
Snowshoe Peak
Snowshoe Peak is the highest summit of the Cabinet Mountains in northwestern Montana, rising to 8,738 feet and anchoring the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in the Kootenai National Forest.
Snowslide
A snowslide is an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow, in contrast to avalanches of ice, rock, earth, or mud; the word is an Americanism dating to about 1845.