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Solectron
Solectron was an electronics manufacturing services company founded in 1977 in Milpitas, California, that peaked at $18.7 billion in revenue before Flextronics acquired it in 2007.
Soledad Acosta de Samper
Soledad Acosta de Samper, born Soledad Acosta Kemble, was a Colombian novelist and journalist who was the first woman in Colombia to live by her pen.
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez is a municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, on the eastern side of the San Luis Potosí metropolitan area, with a 2020 population of 332,072.
Soledad de Maciel
Soledad de Maciel, also known as Xihuacan or La Chole, is a Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Costa Grande of Guerrero, Mexico, a main Cuitlatec religious center.
Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien (Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien), born 1966, American broadcast journalist and documentarian; NBC Weekend Today coanchor 1999-2003, CNN anchor 2003-2013, founder of Soledad O'Brien Productions/Starfish Media Group, host of Matter of Fact, creator of Black in America and Latino in America.
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco, known as Gretchen, is a Filipina heiress who inherited the fortune of her late husband Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr., the longtime San Miguel Corporation chairman who died in 2020.
Soledades
Soledades, known in English as The Solitudes, is an unfinished two-part Baroque poem by Luis de Góngora, written in the difficult culteranismo style and begun around 1613.
Soledades, galerías y otros poemas
Soledades, galerías y otros poemas is a 1907 poetry collection by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, expanding his first book, Soledades (1903), with themes of time, memory, and dream.
Solehah Yaacob
Solehah Yaacob (صالحة يعقوب), Malaysian professor of the philosophy of Arabic grammar at IIUM, Pasir Mas, Kelantan native; known for Arabic linguistics books and for controversial Malay-history claims that led to her 2026 dismissal.
Soleidae
Soleidae, the true soles, is a family of right-eyed flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) with about 32 genera and at least 180 species, benthic on sandy and muddy shelf bottoms; includes Solea solea, the common sole.
SOLEIL (synchrotron)
SOLEIL is France's national third-generation synchrotron radiation source on the Saclay plateau near Paris, opened in 2008, serving several thousand researchers a year across 29 beamlines from infrared to X-rays.
Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye, American actress born 1976 in Glendora, California, starred as Penelope 'Punky' Brewster on NBC's Punky Brewster (1984-88), later played Roxie King on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, directed the Hulu documentary Kid 90, and reprised Punky in the 2021 Peacock revival.
Soleil Ô
Soleil Ô (Oh, Sun), Med Hondo's 1970 Mauritanian-French debut feature, follows an African immigrant facing racism in Paris; Golden Leopard at Locarno 1970, later banned in several countries, restored by the African Film Heritage Project.
Soleirolia soleirolii
Soleirolia soleirolii, baby's tears or mind-your-own-business (Helxine soleirolii), a creeping evergreen Urticaceae perennial from the west-central Mediterranean, grown as a moss-like ground cover and houseplant, spreading from tiny stem fragments.
Solemn ode
The solemn ode (торжественная ода), also called the laudatory or panegyric ode, is a ceremonial lyric poem of elevated style praising a monarch or state occasion.
Solemniacum
Solemniacum is the Latin name of Solignac, a village south of Limoges in France, best known as the site of a Benedictine abbey founded in the seventh century.
Solenn Heussaff
Solenn Heussaff (Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico), French-Filipina actress, model, singer, painter, and entrepreneur born 1985 in Makati; Survivor Philippines 2010 finalist, Encantadia's Cassiopea, wife of Nico Bolzico.
Solenodon
Solenodon, a genus of venomous shrew-like mammals endemic to the Greater Antilles; two endangered species survive, S. cubanus on Cuba and S. paradoxus on Hispaniola, the only living West Indian insectivores, split from other eulipotyphlans in the Cretaceous.
Solenogastres
Solenogastres (Neomeniomorpha, solenogasters): shell-less worm-shaped marine molluscs with calcareous spicules, reduced ciliated foot, no ctenidia; 326 species, carnivores on cnidarians, intertidal to 9,500 m; formerly grouped with Caudofoveata as Aplacophora.
Solenoid
A solenoid is a helical coil of wire that produces a uniform magnetic field along its axis when current flows, also naming actuators that use such a coil to move a plunger.
Solenoid protein domain
Solenoid protein domain: a nonglobular protein domain of tandem repeats forming a continuous superhelix; includes alpha-solenoids (HEAT, armadillo, ankyrin, TPR) and beta-solenoids; flexible scaffolds for protein, peptide, and nucleic acid binding.
Solenoid valve
A solenoid valve, also called a magnetic valve, is an electrically operated valve controlling liquid or gas flow using an electromagnet that moves a core.
Solenoid-free plasma startup
Solenoid-free plasma startup is starting and ramping up tokamak plasma current without the central solenoid, a key goal for compact spherical tokamaks with little central space.
Solenostomus snuffleupagus
Solenostomus snuffleupagus, the hairy ghost pipefish, is a species of ghost pipefish described in 2026 from the Coral Sea, distinguished by hair-like filaments and 36 vertebrae.
Soleus muscle
Soleus muscle (musculus soleus): broad flat deep calf muscle of the triceps surae, originating from tibia and fibula, inserting via the Achilles tendon; slow-twitch postural plantar flexor, venous pump, and common site of calf strain and DVT.
Solexa
Solexa was a genomics-tools company founded in 1998 in Cambridge, England by chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman, acquired by Illumina in 2007 for about $600 million.
Solexa sequencing
Solexa sequencing is a massively parallel DNA sequencing method that reads clusters base by base by synthesis, and is the core chemistry of Illumina's instruments.
Solfácil
Solfácil is a Brazilian clean-energy fintech founded in 2018 and headquartered in São Paulo that finances rooftop solar systems through a network of installers and sells solar equipment online.
Solfège
Solfège (solfeggio, tonic sol-fa) is the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti syllable system for singing and reading music, created by Guido of Arezzo from Ut queant laxis. It splits into fixed do (do = C, Romance countries) and movable do (do = tonic, Kodály, Curwen hand signs).
SolFocus (company)
SolFocus, Inc. was a concentrating photovoltaic startup founded in 2006 and based in Mountain View, California, which deployed about 18 megawatts of solar projects before winding up in 2013.