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Simplex architecture
The Simplex architecture is a runtime assurance design pattern in which a verified-safe baseline controller takes over from an unverified advanced controller when safety is at risk.
SimpleX Chat
SimpleX Chat is a free, open-source messaging platform, first released in 2022, whose protocol assigns users no identifiers of any kind, not even random numbers.
Simplex lattice design
A simplex lattice design is a design of experiments for mixture problems, varying component proportions over a simplex to fit a response surface from few runs.
Simplicial complex
A simplicial complex, also called a geometric simplicial complex, is a combinatorial structure of vertices and simplices used to encode topological spaces as finite data.
Simplicissimus
Simplicissimus (Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, first printed in 1668 and set in the Thirty Years' War.
Simplicius
Simplicius was the 47th pope, in office from 468 to 483, whose pontificate spanned the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the disputes leading to the Acacian schism.
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Simplicius Simplicissimus is the protagonist and narrator of The Adventurous Simplicissimus, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's 1668 picaresque novel set in the Thirty Years' War.
Simplified Acute Physiology Score
The Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) is an ICU severity scoring system; its standard version, SAPS II, uses 17 variables from the first 24 hours to predict hospital death.
Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue
The Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) is a small propulsive backpack worn on spacewalks, letting a drifting astronaut fly back to the spacecraft if a tether fails.
Simplified Boiling Water Reactor
The Simplified Boiling Water Reactor is a 670 MWe passively safe boiling water reactor design developed by General Electric in the early 1990s, producing full power by natural circulation.
Simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters (简化字) are the standard mainland-China forms fixed by the 1956 State Council scheme (515 characters, 54 simplified components) and the 1964 简化字总表, reissued in 1986 with 2,235 characters, used also in Singapore and Malaysia.
Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System
The Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is a line notation for describing chemical structures as strings of characters, introduced by David Weininger at Pomona College in 1988.
Simplifly Deccan
Simplifly Deccan was the name of India's first low-cost airline, Air Deccan, after its 2007 acquisition by Vijay Mallya's UB Group, lasting until it was renamed Kingfisher Red on 29 August 2008.
Simplo Technology
Simplo Technology Co., Ltd. (新普科技) is a Taiwanese lithium battery-pack manufacturer founded in 1992, supplying over 200 million packs a year, one in three notebook battery packs globally.
Simplon Pass
Simplon Pass (Simplonpass, passo del Sempione, col du Simplon): 2,005 m Swiss Alpine pass in Valais linking Brig with Domodossola, Italy; Stockalper trade route, Napoleon's 1801–1805 road, and the 19.8 km Simplon rail tunnel of 1906.
Simplon Tunnel
The Simplon Tunnel is a 19.8 km twin-bore railway tunnel under the Alps linking Brig, Switzerland, with Iselle di Trasquera, Italy, opened in 1906 and long the world's longest.
Simply
Simply, until July 2022 called JoyTunes, is an Israeli developer of subscription apps that teach musical instruments, best known for Simply Piano and valued at $1 billion in 2021.
Simply Actors
Simply Actors (戲王之王, Hei wong ji wong) is a 2007 Hong Kong Cantonese comedy directed by Chan Hing-Ka and Patrick Leung, starring Jim Chim as a cop sent to acting school, with Charlene Choi, who won a Golden Bauhinia Best Actress award for the film.
Simply connected domain
A simply connected domain, also called 1-connected, is a region with no holes, where every closed loop shrinks to a point; this guarantees path-independent integrals in complex analysis and vector calculus.
Simply Red
Simply Red, the English blue-eyed soul and pop band formed in Manchester in 1985, led by Mick Hucknall. Known for US number ones "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me by Now," the 12-times-platinum album Stars, over 50 million albums sold, and a 2015 reunion after the 2010 split.
Simply typed lambda calculus
The simply typed lambda calculus is a typed form of lambda calculus formulated by Alonzo Church in 1940, where every term has a type and all programs terminate.
SimplyBhangra.com
SimplyBhangra.com is a British website covering bhangra music, founded in 2006 by Sukh, publishing news, reviews, interviews, videos, event listings, and its audience-voted Online Top 10 chart.
Simpson Desert
Simpson Desert (Munga-Thirri): large Australian sand-ridge desert in SA, QLD, and NT, about 176,500 km², with parallel longitudinal dunes 10–40 m high, under 150 mm annual rain, named by Cecil Madigan in the 1930s.
Simpson family
The Simpson family is the fictional household of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in Springfield, created by Matt Groening for The Simpsons, an animated sitcom satirizing the American nuclear family.
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome is a rare X-linked congenital disorder, seen mainly in males, causing overgrowth before and after birth, distinctive facial features, birth defects, and a raised tumor risk.
Simpson's paradox
Simpson's paradox, also called the Yule–Simpson effect or reversal paradox, is a statistics phenomenon in which a trend seen in combined data reverses within every subgroup.
Simpson's rule
Simpson's rule, also called Simpson's formula, is a Newton-Cotes method that approximates a definite integral by fitting a parabola through three equally spaced points of the integrand.
Simpsons Already Did It
"Simpsons Already Did It" is a South Park season 6 episode aired June 26, 2002 on Comedy Central, in which Butters as Professor Chaos finds every evil scheme already done on The Simpsons; it spawned the "Simpsons did it" meme and prompted The Simpsons' reply episode "The Bart of War".
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ("The Simpsons Christmas Special") is The Simpsons' series premiere, aired December 17, 1989 on Fox; written by Mimi Pond, produced eighth (7G08), it introduces Santa's Little Helper.
Simran (actress)
Simran, also known as Rishibala Naval, is an Indian actress who was a leading heroine of Tamil cinema in the 1990s and 2000s, winning major awards.