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Sinan ibn Thabit

Sinan ibn Thabit (سنان بن ثابت), c. 880 to 943, was a physician and astronomer who directed Abbasid Baghdad's hospitals and served three caliphs as personal physician.

Sinan Keten

Sinan Keten is a Turkish-born mechanical engineer at Northwestern University, the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor, who studies polymeric and biomolecular materials and received a 2014 PECASE award.

Sinan Özen

Sinan Özen is a Turkish singer, composer, and songwriter born in 1964 in Çayeli, Rize Province, whose blend of arabesk and pop produced 1990s hits like "Öpsene Beni".

Sinan Pasha

Sinan Pasha (Koca Sinan Paşa) was an Ottoman statesman and commander, born around 1520, who served five times as grand vizier and conquered Yemen, Tunis, and Gyor.

Sinan Sakić

Sinan Sakić (Синан Сакић) was a Serbian folk singer who rose to fame in the 1980s as frontman of Južni vetar, recording over 400 songs before his death in 2018.

Sinanevt Dorsa

Sinanevt Dorsa, an IAU-approved (1997) dorsum ridge system on Venus, 1800 km across, centered at 66.5°N 171°E; named from Itelmen (Kamchatka) mythology, the Raven's daughter, wife of the sky man.

Sinann Vallis

Sinann Vallis is a 425-km-wide channel system (vallis) on Venus at 49S, 270E, approved by the IAU in 1994 and named for an Irish river goddess; it consists of disconnected lava-channel traces over 1,000 km long.

Sinapic acid

Sinapic acid, also called sinapinic acid, is a naturally occurring hydroxycinnamic acid common in fruits, vegetables, and cereal grains, and the standard MALDI matrix for weighing proteins.

Sinapis

Sinapis (mustard) is a genus of three accepted Brassicaceae species native from temperate Eurasia to North Africa; its species Sinapis alba, white or yellow mustard, is a major condiment and cover crop.

Sinapis alba

Sinapis alba (white mustard, yellow mustard, syn. Brassica hirta), an annual Brassicaceae herb with 2n=24 (SS genome), grown for condiment seed rich in sinalbin, green manure, forage, and oil.

Sinapis arvensis

Sinapis arvensis, charlock or wild mustard (synonym Brassica kaber, NCBI name Mutarda arvensis), is an annual Brassicaceae weed of Eurasian and North African origin, naturalized worldwide, with light-requiring coat-imposed seed dormancy and ALS-inhibitor-resistant Turkish biotypes.

Sinar Mas (Eka Tjipta Widjaja and the Widjaja family fortune)

Sinar Mas is the Indonesian business fortune of Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who began selling biscuits in Makassar in 1938 and built pulp, paper, palm oil, and finance companies.

Sinar Mas Group

Sinar Mas Group is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded by Eka Tjipta Widjaja in 1938, operating through more than 400 companies including Asia Pulp & Paper.

Sinara

Sinara is a station on the Tabula Peutingeriana, the Roman road map, generally identified with Sinoria, Mithridates VI of Pontus' frontier fortress where he took refuge from Pompey in 66 BC.

Sinaranu

Sinaranu (Akkadian Ṣinaruna) was a private merchant of Bronze Age Ugarit whose ship and cargo of grain, beer, and olive oil were exempted from palace dues on arrival from Crete.

Sinatra (software)

Sinatra is an open-source web application framework and domain-specific language for quickly creating web applications in Ruby, begun by Blake Mizerany in 2006 and inspired by the microframework Camping.

SinB

SinB (Hwang Eun-bi) is a South Korean singer and dancer, born in 1998, who debuted in 2015 as main dancer of GFRIEND and joined VIVIZ in 2021.

Sinbad (comedian)

Sinbad, stage name of David Adkins (born 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan), is an American clean stand-up comedian and actor known for A Different World, HBO specials like Brain Damaged, films Houseguest and Jingle All the Way, and his 2026 comeback after a 2020 stroke.

Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad the Sailor (السندباد البحري): fictional Baghdadi merchant whose seven sea voyages form a celebrated cycle of One Thousand and One Nights, Arabic in origin, later incorporated into the Nights and brought to Europe by Antoine Galland (1704-1717).

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 DreamWorks animated adventure film directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore, with Brad Pitt voicing the pirate Sinbad.

Sinc function

The sinc function, also called the cardinal sine (sinus cardinalis), is defined as sin(x)/x with sinc(0) = 1, and is the Fourier transform of a rectangular pulse.

Sincalide

Sincalide (Kinevac) is a synthetic C-terminal octapeptide of cholecystokinin, FDA-approved since 1976, injected intravenously to stimulate gallbladder contraction, pancreatic secretion, and barium meal transit in diagnostic testing.

Sincan İlçesi

Sincan İlçesi, or Sincan District, is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in Türkiye's Central Anatolia Region, roughly 24 to 27 km west of the city center.

Since I Left You

Since I Left You, The Avalanches' 2000 debut album (international release 2001, Sire/Modular), a sample-collage electronic record built from roughly 900 to 3,500 vinyl samples, an ARIA-winning, critically acclaimed classic followed sixteen years later by Wildflower.

Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone: 2004 Kelly Clarkson pop-rock single from Breakaway, written by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, adapted from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Maps; peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a 2006 Grammy.

Since You Been Gone

"Since You Been Gone" is a 1975/1976 Russ Ballard rock song, best known through Rainbow's 1979 cover with Graham Bonnet, which peaked at No. 6 in the UK; distinct from Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

Sincelejo

Sincelejo, capital of Colombia's Sucre department in the Caribbean savanna, a livestock and trade city of about 314,000 people, founded as San Francisco de Asís de Sincelejo and refounded by Antonio de la Torre y Miranda in 1775.

Sincere Engineer

Sincere Engineer is the punk rock band of Chicago singer-songwriter Deanna Belos, started solo in 2015. Four albums: Rhombithian (2017, Red Scare), Bless My Psyche, Cheap Grills, Probable Claws (Hopeless Records).

Sincerely (Kali Uchis album)

Sincerely, (with comma) is Kali Uchis' fifth studio album, released May 9, 2025 on Capitol Records. A 14-track, mostly English R&B letter-collection dedicated to her late mother and newborn son, with no guest features.

SINCGARS

SINCGARS, the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System, is a family of VHF-FM combat net radios providing secure tactical command communications for U.S. Army units since 1988.