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SIMATIC

SIMATIC is the Siemens brand name for its family of industrial automation products, including programmable logic controllers, HMI devices, industrial PCs, and the PCS 7 process control system, engineered in the TIA Portal.

Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı

Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı is a 1936 epic poem by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet about the 15th-century Ottoman jurist and Sufi Şeyh Bedreddin, who sought an egalitarian social order.

Simazine

Simazine (CAS 122-34-9), a chlorotriazine pre-emergence herbicide introduced in 1956 and first triazine registered in the US, inhibits photosynthesis in weeds; persistent, mobile, detected in groundwater, EU-banned since 2004.

Simba

Simba is the fictional lion protagonist of Disney's The Lion King (1994), son of Mufasa, voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Matthew Broderick, later Donald Glover in the 2019 remake; exiled after Scar kills his father, he returns as king.

SIMBA (simulation)

SIMBA is a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation, introduced in 2019 as the successor to Mufasa and run with the Gizmo code.

Simba La Rue

Simba La Rue (Mohamed Lamine Saida, born 2002, Tunis) is an Italian-Tunisian drill and trap rapper based near Como, debut album Tunnel (2024), known for French-inflected lyrics and the Italian trapper-feud convictions.

Simba rebellion

The Simba rebellion was a large 1964 and 1965 uprising in the Congo, led by leftist rebels called Simbas seeking to overthrow the pro-Western central government.

Simba S.C.

Simba S.C. (Simba Sports Club), founded 1936 in Dar es Salaam as Queens, then Eagles and Sunderland, renamed Simba in 1971; Tanzanian giant with 22 league titles, 6 CECAFA cups, home at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, CAF Confederation Cup finalist 2025.

SIMBAD

SIMBAD, the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data, is an online database of astronomical objects outside the Solar System, run by the CDS in Strasbourg, France.

Simbang Gabi

Simbang Gabi is a Filipino Catholic devotion of nine consecutive dawn Masses from December 16 to 24 in preparation for Christmas, with evening Masses also permitted.

Simbar-shipak

Simbar-shipak, also written Simbar-Šiḫu, was a king of Babylon and the first ruler of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand, which took over after the Kassite dynasty fell.

Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Simbe Robotics is an American retail-robotics company founded in 2014 and based in South San Francisco, California, known for Tally, an autonomous robot that scans store shelves for out-of-stock items and pricing errors.

Simbi Khali

Simbi Khali, also credited as Simbi Kali, American actress born 1971 in Jackson, Mississippi; played Nina Campbell on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), Laquita on Martin, and voiced Amanda in Detroit: Become Human.

Simbionix

Simbionix is an Israeli medical simulation company founded in the late 1990s that develops virtual reality simulators for training surgeons, including the LAP Mentor and GI Mentor.

Simbody

Simbody is an open-source C++ multibody dynamics library developed at Stanford under NIH funding; it serves as the dynamics engine behind OpenSim and is used in the Gazebo robotics simulator.

Simca

Simca (Société Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile) was a French carmaker founded by Fiat in 1934, led by Henri Pigozzi, sold to Peugeot in 1978 and renamed Talbot in 1979.

Simcenter

Simcenter is a portfolio of engineering simulation and physical testing software from Siemens Digital Industries Software, launched in 2016 and expanded by the roughly $10 billion Altair acquisition in 2025.

Simcere CDH6 antibody-drug conjugate

SIM0505 (SCR-9359), Simcere Zaiming's CDH6-targeting antibody-drug conjugate with CPT116 topoisomerase 1 inhibitor payload; Phase 1 (NCT06792552) in advanced solid tumors, licensed ex-Greater China to NextCure for up to $745M, FDA Fast Track for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Simcere Zaiming

Simcere Zaiming, formally Hainan Simcere Zaiming Pharmaceutical, is a Chinese oncology drug company founded in 2020, selling five cancer medicines and planning a Hong Kong spin-off listing.

Simcha Bunim Alter (Lev Simcha)

Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר), known as Lev Simcha, was the fifth Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty from 1977 until his death in 1992.

Simcha Eichenstein

Simcha Eichenstein is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from Brooklyn's 48th district, elected in 2018 as the first Chassidic Jewish member of the state legislature.

Simchat Torah (שמחת תורה)

Simchat Torah (שמחת תורה), or Rejoicing of the Torah, is a Jewish holiday on which the annual Torah reading is completed and begun again, celebrated with dancing and processions.

Simcheongga

Simcheongga (심청가) is one of the five surviving Korean pansori epics, telling of the filial daughter Sim Cheong, who sacrifices herself in the Indang Sea.

SimCity

SimCity (originally Micropolis) is Will Wright's 1989 Maxis city-building simulation where the player-mayor zones residential, commercial, and industrial land; it spawned a series, The Sims, and widespread classroom use in urban planning education.

SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity (1989), aka Micropolis, is Maxis and Will Wright's open-ended city-building simulation that founded the city-builder genre, was published via Broderbund, ported widely including SNES, won 1989 awards, and was later GPL-released.

SimCity (2013 video game)

SimCity (2013) is a city-building simulation developed by Maxis Emeryville and published by Electronic Arts, the first mainline SimCity entry since SimCity 4 in 2003.

SimCity 2000

SimCity 2000 is Maxis's 1993/1994 isometric city-building simulation, sequel to SimCity. Sold over 300,000 copies in four months, topped world charts for half a year, and was ported widely.

SimCity 4

SimCity 4 (2003), Maxis/EA city-building simulation, fourth main SimCity, designed by Will Wright. Known for regional play with neighbor deals, a statistical spreadsheet simulation, Rush Hour expansion, and a lasting NAM modding community.

SimCLR

SimCLR is a self-supervised learning method that trains an image encoder by contrasting two augmented views of the same image, reported by Ting Chen and colleagues in 2020.

Simcoe

Lake Simcoe, southern Ontario's largest lake outside the Great Lakes (722 km², 42 m max depth), a Trent-Severn Waterway lake with a major ice fishery, Protection Plan since 2009, and invasive-species and chloride stressors.