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Sliding puzzle
Sliding puzzle: pieces slide into an empty space without lifting or rotating. Covers the 15 puzzle (Chapman, 1874; 1880 craze), Klotski/Huarong Dao, Rush Hour (Yoshigahara, 1996), parity solvability, and PSPACE-completeness.
Sliding stability analysis
Sliding stability analysis checks whether a concrete gravity dam has enough shear resistance along a potential failure plane to resist horizontal forces from water pressure and uplift.
Sliding window protocol
A sliding window protocol is a method of reliable data transmission in which a sender may send a limited window of data before acknowledgements arrive; it underlies TCP flow control.
Sliding-window attention
Sliding-window attention (SWA) is an attention scheme in which each transformer token attends only to the previous w tokens, cutting per-token memory from O(S) to O(w).
Slido
Slido is a web-based audience interaction platform, owned by Cisco, where participants in meetings, lectures, and events submit questions, vote in live polls, and take quizzes without installing an app.
Sliema Wanderers F.C.
Sliema Wanderers F.C., Maltese football club founded 1909 in Sliema; record 21 FA Trophies, 26 league titles shared with Floriana, 102 total honours, first Maltese European Cup match win (1965).
Slightly Stoopid
Slightly Stoopid is an American band from San Diego, California, formed in 1995 by Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald, playing a fusion of rock, reggae, and punk.
Sligo
Sligo (Irish: Sligeach) is the county town of County Sligo in north-west Ireland, on the Atlantic coast, and the largest town in Connacht with 20,608 people at the 2022 census.
Sligo Rovers F.C.
Sligo Rovers F.C. (the Bit O'Red), Irish football club founded 1928 in Sligo, playing at The Showgrounds; fan-owned co-operative with 3 league titles, 5 FAI Cups, and a planned 6,129-seat stadium redevelopment.
SLIM (lunar lander)
SLIM, short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, was a JAXA lunar lander that landed within 55 meters of its target near Shioli crater on January 20, 2024.
Slim Dusty
Slim Dusty (David Gordon Kirkpatrick, 1927–2003), Australia's King of Country, was a country singer-songwriter from Kempsey NSW whose "A Pub With No Beer" (1957) won Australia's first gold record; he recorded over 100 albums and seven million records.
Slim Gaillard
Slim Gaillard (Bulee Gaillard, c. 1916–1991) was an American jazz singer, guitarist, and pianist of the duo Slim & Slam, famous for "Flat Foot Floogie," his invented jive dialect "vout," and bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
Slim Halderson
Slim Halderson (Haldor/Halldor Halldorson, 1900-1965), Canadian ice hockey forward with the Winnipeg Falcons; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold (nine goals in three games) and the 1925 Stanley Cup with the Victoria Cougars.
Slim Jim (snack food)
Slim Jim is an American spicy processed-meat snack stick brand made from beef, pork, and mechanically separated chicken. Created by Adolph Levis (accounts date it 1928, 1929, or the 1940s), sold to General Mills in 1967, owned by Conagra Brands since 1998, famous for the Macho Man slogan.
Slim Jim Phantom
Slim Jim Phantom (James McDonnell, born 1961, Brooklyn) is the Stray Cats' stand-up drummer, co-founder of the 1979 rockabilly trio with Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker, later of The Head Cat with Lemmy, and author of A Stray Cat Struts.
Slim Jxmmi
Slim Jxmmi (Aaquil Iben Shamon Brown, born 1991) is an American rapper, one half of Rae Sremmurd with brother Swae Lee; known for 'Black Beatles', the Jxmtro solo album, and EarDrummers/Interscope releases.
Slim Keith
Slim Keith, born Nancy Gross (some sources Mary Raye Gross), was an American socialite and style icon, wife of Howard Hawks, Leland Hayward, and Sir Kenneth Keith, and a Capote swan cut off by "La Côte Basque, 1965."
Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley Jr., 1919–1983) was an American rodeo clown turned western character actor, famous as Major Kong riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove (1964) and as Taggart in Blazing Saddles (1974).
Slim Shady EP
Slim Shady EP, also called The Slim Shady EP, is Eminem's debut extended play, self-released December 10, 1997 on Web Entertainment. It introduced the Slim Shady alter ego and, via the 1997 Rap Olympics and Dr. Dre, led to his Aftermath signing.
Slim Slime Robot
The Slim Slime Robot (SSR) is a snake-like robot built from six connected pneumatic modules, developed by Ohno and Hirose at the Tokyo Institute of Technology around 2000.
Slim Thug
Slim Thug (Stayve Jerome Thomas, born 1980) is a Houston rapper, Swishahouse alum, and Boss Hogg Outlawz founder whose 'Still Tippin'' verse and 2005 album Already Platinum, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, made him a leading figure of the Houston rap breakthrough.
Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman (Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.), American country singer and yodeler born in Tampa, Florida, known for falsetto hits "Indian Love Call" and "Rose Marie", TV-marketed "All My Best", and Mars Attacks!; died 2013.
Slime (film)
Slime is an upcoming American animated dystopian sci-fi monster film, the feature directorial debut of Jeron Braxton, starring Kid Cudi as Glenn and Willow Smith as Muna, produced by Hammerstone Studios, Mad Solar, and Capstone Global.
Slime (group)
Slime is a German punk band formed in Hamburg in 1979, one of the style-defining bands of the 1980s German punk scene, whose anti-fascist songs were repeatedly indexed and prosecuted.
Slime (homemade toy)
Homemade slime is a DIY polymer toy made by cross-linking PVA glue with borate activators like borax or contact lens solution. Descended from Mattel's 1976 Slime, it entered the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2025; surveys flag boron migration above the EU 300 mg/kg limit in many products.
Slime (monster)
Slime (スライム, also called ooze) is a fictional amorphous monster that engulfs and dissolves victims, arising in 20th-century pulp horror and later a Japanese game mascot.
Slime (toy)
Slime (toy): gelatinous play material made by cross-linking PVA or glue with borate ions; introduced by Mattel in 1976 in a green trashcan, inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2025; boron migration drives recalls.
Slime Cry
Slime Cry is the ninth studio album by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, released January 16, 2026. It features 30 tracks and debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200.
Slime Language 3
Slime Language 3 is the third Young Stoner Life label compilation by Young Thug, released August 28, 2026: 41 tracks on two sides, new YSL and ØWay signees, guests Future, Travis Scott, Yeat, and Lil Baby, debuting at No. 146 with 11,000 units.
Slime mold
Slime mold (myxomycetes, Mycetozoa): fungus-like protists including plasmodial forms such as Physarum polycephalum and cellular forms such as Dictyostelium; amoeboid feeders with spore-bearing fruiting bodies, unrelated to true fungi.