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Sine-cosine encoder
A sine-cosine encoder, or sin/cos encoder, is a position sensor that outputs analog sine and cosine signals phase-shifted by 90 degrees, which electronics interpolate for high-resolution position feedback.
Sine-Gordon equation
The sine-Gordon equation is a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation whose kink and antikink solutions behave as solitons, with applications in Josephson junctions and field theory.
Sine-Gordon model
The sine-Gordon model is a two-dimensional relativistic quantum field theory whose interaction is a cosine of the field; in 1975 Coleman showed it equals the massive Thirring model.
Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Cusack (born 1948, Dalkey, Ireland) is an Irish actress, daughter of Cyril Cusack and wife of Jeremy Irons; an RSC Shakespearean stage star awarded for Our Lady of Sligo, also in V for Vendetta, Eastern Promises, and Napoleon (2023). Distinct from singer Sinéad O'Connor.
Sinéad Keenan
Sinéad Keenan, Irish actress born 1977 in Dublin; known as Nina in Being Human, Mel Jones in Little Boy Blue (BAFTA-nominated, RTS and Golden Nymph winner), and DCI Jess James in Unforgotten series 5–7; sister of actors Rory and Gráinne Keenan.
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor, also Shuhada' Sadaqat (1966–2023), Irish singer-songwriter famed for "Nothing Compares 2 U" and her 1992 SNL protest; ten albums, shaved head, Catholic Church critic.
Sinecure
A sinecure (from Latin sine cura, "without care") is a paid post requiring little or no work, originally a church benefice without cure of souls, later a lucrative patronage office in the British state, largely abolished by 19th-century reform.
Sineenatha
Sineenatha (Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, born Niramon Aunprom/Ounprom, 1985) is the Royal Noble Consort of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn, appointed July 2019, demoted October 2019, reinstated August 2020; distinct from the Telugu poet Śrīnātha.
Sinemurian
The Sinemurian is the second stage of the Early Jurassic, spanning roughly 199.5 to 192.9 million years ago, defined by a boundary stratotype on the coast of southwest England.
Sines LNG Terminal
The Sines LNG Terminal is an onshore LNG import terminal in the Port of Sines, Portugal, opened in 2004 and operated by REN Atlântico, delivering 98 percent of Portugal's maritime gas supply in 2024.
Sines petrochemical complex
The Sines petrochemical complex is a Repsol-owned petrochemical site at Sines, Portugal, operating since 1981 and processing about one million tonnes of feedstock a year into ethylene, propylene, and polymers.
Sines Refinery
The Sines Refinery (Refinaria de Sines) is an oil refinery in Sines, Portugal, commissioned in 1978, owned by Galp, and the only refinery operating in Portugal.
Sinestro
Sinestro (Thaal Sinestro) is DC Comics' Green Lantern arch-villain, created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern #7 (1961). Korugar dictator, expelled Green Lantern of Sector 1417, wielder of a yellow fear ring and founder of the Sinestro Corps.
Sinestro Corps
Sinestro Corps, also called Yellow Lanterns, DC Comics army founded by Thaal Sinestro, powered by the yellow light of fear, debut 2007 Sinestro Corps Special #1, rival of the willpower-based Green Lantern Corps.
SINET (Japan)
SINET (Science Information NETwork) is Japan's national research and education network, built and operated by the National Institute of Informatics for universities and research institutions since 1992.
Sinewave Ventures
SineWave Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Yanev Suissa in 2014, investing in enterprise technology for both commercial and US public-sector customers.
Sinfónica Esperanza Azteca
Sinfónica Esperanza Azteca, also Orquesta Esperanza Azteca, is a Mexican network of children's and youth orchestras and choirs, launched in 2009 and modeled on Venezuela's El Sistema.
Sinfra
Sinfra is a city and department seat in the Marahoué region of central-western Côte d'Ivoire, a Gouro agricultural center producing cocoa, coffee, and rice, with 245,226 department residents (2021 census).
Sing (2016 American film)
Sing (2016) is an Illumination Entertainment computer-animated musical comedy distributed by Universal Pictures, directed by Garth Jennings, starring Matthew McConaughey as koala Buster Moon, who saves his theater with a singing competition; over 85 songs, $270.4M US gross.
Sing (Ed Sheeran song)
Sing is a 2014 song by Ed Sheeran, co-written and produced by Pharrell Williams, and the lead single from his album x (Multiply). It was Sheeran's first UK number-one single, peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified Platinum in the UK.
Sing 2
Sing 2 (2021) is Illumination's computer-animated jukebox musical comedy sequel to Sing, written and directed by Garth Jennings, starring Matthew McConaughey's Buster Moon in Redshore City, with Bono in his animated debut as Clay Calloway; it grossed 408.4 million USD.
Sing a Bit of Harmony (アイの歌声を聴かせて)
Sing a Bit of Harmony (アイの歌声を聴かせて) is a 2021 Japanese animated musical sci-fi film directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, about an AI schoolgirl, Shion, who sings to make classmate Satomi happy; it won a 45th Japan Academy Excellence Award.
Sing a Song of Sex (日本春歌考)
Sing a Song of Sex (日本春歌考, Nihon shunka-ko) is Nagisa Oshima's 1967 Japanese film, also called A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs: four exam-bound students follow a bawdy-song-singing teacher, using folk songs to attack national myth.
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sing a Song of Sixpence is an English nursery rhyme first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (London, c. 1744) with "naughty boys" in the pie; Henry VIII interpretations lack evidence, though live-bird pies were real Tudor entertainment.
Sing for the Moment
Sing for the Moment is a 2002 Eminem song from The Eminem Show sampling Aerosmith's 1973 Dream On, with Steven Tyler's chorus vocals and a new Joe Perry guitar solo; it peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 in the UK.
Sing Geetham
Sing Geetham is a 2026 Telugu musical fantasy comedy-drama, billed as India's first musical fantasy, directed by 94-year-old Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, produced by Nag Ashwin, released 12 June 2026, streaming on Netflix, set in the cursed singing village of Kuberapuram.
Sing meinen Song
Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert is a German VOX music show, first broadcast in 2014, in which seven established artists spend weeks together performing one another's songs.
Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security New York State men's prison in Ossining, opened in the 1820s and run by DOCCS. Distinguished by extensive academic programs, proximity to New York City, oversight by CANY, and a planned prison museum.
Sing Sing (2024 film)
Sing Sing (2024) is an A24 prison drama directed by Greg Kwedar, starring Colman Domingo and formerly incarcerated actors from the real Rehabilitation Through the Arts program; three Oscar nominations, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sing Sing Way
Sing Sing Way is an American physician-scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system responds to pregnancy and to infection in newborn babies.