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Snubber circuit

A snubber circuit is a network of resistors, capacitors, and diodes placed across a power semiconductor to limit voltage spikes, ringing, and dV/dt during switching; the most common form is a capacitor with a series resistor.

Snubnosed revolver

The snubnosed revolver, also called a belly gun or snubbie, is a revolver with a short barrel, generally 3 inches or less, made for concealed close-range self-defense.

Snuff (film)

Snuff (1976) is an American exploitation horror film by Michael and Roberta Findlay, originally The Slaughter (1971), whose staged murder coda, added by distributor Allan Shackleton, popularized the snuff film urban legend despite no genuine snuff film ever being located.

Snuff (song)

"Snuff" is Slipknot's 2008 acoustic ballad from All Hope Is Gone, written by Corey Taylor about his divorce, released as a single in 2009, championed by Paul Gray, a top-ten US rock hit, and later a tribute to the late bassist.

Snuff (tobacco)

Snuff, also called nasal or dry snuff, is powdered smokeless tobacco inhaled through the nose or held in the mouth, delivering nicotine without burning the leaf.

Snuff film

Snuff film: a supposed film depicting real murder made for profit, an urban legend circulating since the mid-1970s; term coined by Ed Sanders (1972), popularized by the 1976 hoax film Snuff; no verified example exists.

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a 2024 cozy musical adventure game by Hyper Games and Raw Fury, starring Snufkin dismantling the Park Keeper's parks, with Sigur Rós music, on PC, Switch, Xbox, PS5, and mobile.

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are the gumnut-baby heroes of May Gibbs's 1918 Australian bush fairy tale, published in Sydney by Angus & Robertson, about two brothers seeking a Human.

SNUPPS

SNUPPS (Standardized Nuclear Unit Power Plant System) was a 1970s consortium of United States utilities that built identical nuclear plants from a standardized Westinghouse pressurized water reactor design.

SNURF family

SNURF family: a small protein family built around SNURF (SNRPN upstream reading frame protein, Q9Y675), a 71-aa nuclear protein encoded by the paternally imprinted SNURF-SNRPN bicistronic locus at 15q11.2, distinct from rat RNF4 'Snurf'.

Snus

Snus: Swedish moist smokeless tobacco used under the upper lip, loose or in pouches; pasteurized for low nitrosamines, legal mainly in Sweden and Norway, with FDA-recognized lower risks than cigarettes and a tobacco-free variant, white snus (nicotine pouches).

Snyatyn Raion

Snyatyn Raion (Снятинський район) was a raion in southeastern Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on the town of Sniatyn on the Prut River; created in 1940 and abolished in 2020.

Snyder's synthetic unit hydrograph

Snyder's synthetic unit hydrograph is an empirical method published by Franklin F. Snyder in 1938 that constructs a unit hydrograph for ungauged watersheds from measurable basin characteristics.

Snyk

Snyk is a Boston-based developer security company founded in 2015 by Guy Podjarny that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in code, open source dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.

So (album)

So is Peter Gabriel's fifth solo studio album, released in May 1986; it topped the UK chart and featured Sledgehammer and Don't Give Up with Kate Bush.

SO 0253 + 1652

SO 0253+1652, or Teegarden's Star (SO025300.5+165258), is an M6 red dwarf 3.84 pc from the Sun, the 23rd nearest stellar system, discovered in 2003 from NEAT archival data.

Sō clan

The Sō clan (宗氏) was a Japanese warrior family that ruled the island of Tsushima from the Kamakura period to the Meiji era and monopolized trade and diplomacy with Korea.

So Close

So Close (夕陽天使) is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by Corey Yuen, starring Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, and Karen Mok as assassin sisters and the detective pursuing them, with the Carpenters' "Close to You" as its signature motif.

So Close to What

So Close to What is Tate McRae's third studio album, released February 21, 2025 on RCA Records; a 15-track dance-pop record that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 2 in the UK.

So dien and dinh ta registers

The so dien and dinh ta registers were the periodic land and male-headcount registers of pre-colonial Vietnam, compiled under the Le, Trinh, Nguyen, and Tay Son administrations to assess taxes, labor, and conscription.

Số đỏ

Số đỏ, published in English as Dumb Luck, is a satirical 1936 novel by Vietnamese writer Vũ Trọng Phụng about a vagabond's rise in colonial Hanoi.

So Easy (To Fall in Love)

"So Easy (To Fall in Love)" is a song by Olivia Dean, released in 2025 from The Art of Loving. The bossa nova track peaked at number 2 on the UK Official Singles Chart.

So Far Gone (EP)

So Far Gone is Drake's debut EP, released September 15, 2009, packaging five songs from his February 2009 breakout mixtape with two new tracks, including "Fear"; its single "Best I Ever Had" hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

So Far Gone (mixtape)

So Far Gone is Drake's third mixtape, released free on February 13, 2009 via his OVO blog; also issued as a gold So Far Gone EP (September 15, 2009). Guests include Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, and Bun B; "Best I Ever Had" peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100. It reached streaming in 2019, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

So Far, So Good... So What!

So Far, So Good... So What! is Megadeth's third studio album, released January 1988 on Capitol Records; recorded with Jeff Young and Chuck Behler, it peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 and No. 18 in the UK.

So Help Me Todd

So Help Me Todd is an American legal comedy-drama series on CBS from 2022 to 2024, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin as a lawyer mother and her investigator son.

So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American romantic comedy starring Mike Myers. The film follows a poet who suspects his fiancée is a serial killer.

So I Married the Anti-fan (그래서 나는 안티팬과 결혼했다)

So I Married the Anti-fan (그래서 나는 안티팬과 결혼했다) is a 2010 Korean romance novel by Kim Eun-jung about top star Hoo Joon and reporter-turned-anti-fan Lee Geun-young, adapted into a 2018 webtoon, a 2016 Chinese film with Chanyeol, and a 2021 Naver TV web drama starring Choi Tae Joon and Sooyoung.

So I'm a Spider, So What? (蜘蛛ですが、なにか？)

So I'm a Spider, So What? (蜘蛛ですが、なにか？, Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?) is a Japanese light novel by Okina Baba, illustrated by Tsukasa Kiryu, published by KADOKAWA since December 10, 2015, about a high school girl reincarnated as a weak spider monster surviving a monster-filled dungeon; adapted into manga, a 24-episode anime, and a 2024 browser game.

So Iwata

So Iwata (岩田想, born 1963) is a Japanese structural biologist known for X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins, a Kyoto University professor and 2010 Gregori Aminoff Prize winner.