All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Silver Lake Long-Term Capital -
Silver Lake Long-Term Capital is a 25-year private equity strategy run by Silver Lake, the Menlo Park technology investor, reporting $2 billion sold in 2020.
Silver Lake Private Equity
Silver Lake Private Equity, L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership fund vehicle under the Silver Lake technology investment platform, based in Menlo Park, California, organized in 2024.
Silver Lake Private Equity - Anchor (B), L.P.
Silver Lake Private Equity - Anchor (B), L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership private equity fund of the buyout firm Silver Lake, formed in 2024.
Silver Lake Ranch
Silver Lake Ranch: ~54,000-acre former Moody Foundation ranch in Edwards and Kinney counties, Texas, acquired by TPWD in 2026 to become Silver Lake State Park, the state's second largest state park; unrelated namesakes exist in Slovakia and Nevada.
Silver Lake Strategic Investors VI, L.P.
Silver Lake Strategic Investors VI, L.P. is a Delaware private equity fund vehicle of technology investment firm Silver Lake, formed in 2023 and reporting $1.2 billion sold.
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Silver Lake is a hillside Los Angeles neighborhood named for water commissioner Herman Silver and its 1906–1908 Mulholland reservoir, known for silent-film studios, modernist architecture by Neutra and Schindler, and early gay rights history.
Silver Latin epic
Silver Latin epic is the Latin epic poetry written after Augustus' death in AD 14, principally by Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius in the first century AD.
Silver Legion of America
Silver Legion of America (Silver Shirts), fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley on January 31, 1933, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina; published Liberation, claimed about 12,358 members in 1939, and collapsed after Pelley's 1942 sedition conviction.
Silver Line (Washington Metro)
The Silver Line, also known as Dulles Metrorail, is a 23-mile Washington Metro extension through Tysons, Reston, and Washington Dulles International Airport to Ashburn, opened in phases in 2014 and 2022.
Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook: 2012 romantic comedy-drama by David O. Russell, adapted from Matthew Quick's 2008 novel, starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro; eight Oscar nominations, Lawrence won Best Actress.
Silver nanoparticle
Silver nanoparticle (AgNP, nanosilver): engineered silver particles roughly 1–100 nm used as broad-spectrum antimicrobials in wound dressings, catheters, textiles, and water treatment; action combines Ag+ release with particle contact, with size, coating, and resistance concerns.
Silver nanowire transparent electrodes
Silver nanowire transparent electrodes are thin films of percolating silver nanowire networks on glass or plastic that conduct while transmitting light, a flexible alternative to brittle indium tin oxide.
Silver nanowire transparent heater
A silver nanowire transparent heater is a see-through electrothermal device in which a percolating silver nanowire film converts electricity into heat while transmitting 80 to 98% of visible light.
Silver nitrate
Silver nitrate, also known as lunar caustic, is an inorganic salt of silver appearing as water-soluble crystals, used in photography, analytical chemistry, silver plating, and medical cauterization sticks.
Silver oxide
Silver oxide most commonly refers to silver(I) oxide (Ag₂O), a dark, light-sensitive solid that is the principal oxide of silver and the cathode of 1.55 V button cells.
Silver paste
Silver paste is a screen-printable ink of silver particles, glass frit, and binders that forms the electrical contacts of crystalline silicon solar cells, the dominant metallization method in photovoltaic manufacturing.
Silver Pines
Silver Pines is a 2026 survival horror metroidvania set in small town America, by Swedish studio Wych Elm and published by Team17, released October 8, 2026 on PC and consoles; PI Red Walker searches for missing musician Eddie Velvet; Metascore 85, Steam 97% positive.
Silver Point Capital
Silver Point Capital is a multi-strategy credit investment firm and hedge fund manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded in 2002 by former Goldman Sachs executives Ed Mulé and Bob O'Shea.
Silver Point Specialty Credit
Silver Point Specialty Credit is the direct lending and specialty credit platform of Silver Point Capital, lending senior secured loans to United States middle-market companies from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Silver Point Specialty Lending Fund
Silver Point Specialty Lending Fund is a business development company investing in senior secured loans to private U.S. middle market companies, managed by Silver Point Capital.
Silver ratio
The silver ratio, also called the silver mean, is the irrational number 1 + √2 (about 2.414), the second metallic mean after the golden ratio.
Silver River
Silver River (1948) is a Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. Western starring Errol Flynn as Mike McComb, a dishonorably discharged Union officer who becomes a Nevada silver magnate; his seventh and last film with Walsh, costing $3.2 million.
Silver rush of Cerro de Pasco
The silver rush of Cerro de Pasco was a late-colonial silver mining boom in the central Peruvian Andes that replaced Potosí as South America's major source.
Silver Sable
Silver Sable (Silvija Sablinova) is a Marvel Comics mercenary from Symkaria who debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #265 (June 1985), leads the Wild Pack and Silver Sable International, starred in a 1992 series and Insomniac's Spider-Man games.
Silver Samurai
Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada, 原田剣一郎) is a Marvel Comics mutant swordsman, illegitimate son of Shingen Yashida, whose tachyon-charged katana cuts through anything; a recurring Wolverine foe, later Big Hero 6 leader, debuted Daredevil #111 (1974).
Silver Sands Marina
Silver Sands Marina is the twenty-first studio album by American country artist Kenny Chesney, released in 2026 through Hey Now Records, his first album since leaving Warner Nashville.
Silver selenide flexible thermoelectrics
Silver selenide flexible thermoelectrics are films, fabrics, and fibers based on the semiconductor Ag₂Se that turn small temperature differences, such as body heat, into electricity while withstanding bending.
Silver Side Up
Silver Side Up is Nickelback's third studio album, released September 11, 2001 on Roadrunner Records. Produced with Rick Parashar, it spawned "How You Remind Me", a four-week Billboard Hot 100 number one, sold over 10 million copies, and won four 2002 Juno Awards.
Silver Slugger Award
Silver Slugger Award (Hillerich & Bradsby Silver Slugger Award), MLB honor since 1980 for the best offensive player at each position in each league, voted by managers and coaches, trophy a silver-plated Louisville Slugger bat; Bonds leads with 12.
Silver Spoon (銀の匙) (manga)
Silver Spoon (銀の匙, Gin no Saji) is Hiromu Arakawa's 2011–2019 agricultural coming-of-age manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday, 15 volumes, set at Ooezo Agricultural High School in Tokachi, Hokkaido; Manga Taisho and Shogakukan award winner with 2013 anime and 2014 film.