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Slip system
A slip system is the combination of a crystallographic slip plane and a slip direction along which dislocation motion produces plastic deformation in crystalline materials such as metals.
Slip-on shoe
Slip-on shoe (スリッポン): any laceless shoe, from loafers to Vans Classic Slip-On and Chelsea boots, held on by elastic gores or last shape; defined by customs, history of the loafer, fit and foot-health guidance.
Slipher (lunar crater)
Slipher is a ~70–75 km impact crater on the Moon's farside at about 48.3°N, 160.5°E, on the southwestern rim of d'Alembert, named for astronomer Vesto M. Slipher; its wall hosts a lobate thrust-fault scarp and its ejecta embays d'Alembert's light plains.
Slipher (Martian crater)
Slipher is an impact crater on Mars named for Lowell Observatory astronomers Vesto M. and Earl C. Slipher, Mars observers and cartographers; a separate lunar crater of the same name exists.
Slipknot (album)
Slipknot (1999) is the self-titled debut album by Iowa metal band Slipknot, produced by Ross Robinson for Roadrunner Records; it went platinum by April 2000 and launched the masked nine-piece.
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot: American masked nine-piece heavy metal band formed 1995 in Des Moines, Iowa, numbered 0 to 8. Nu-metal-era act with death metal and thrash elements; platinum 1999 debut, Iowa (2001), 10 Grammy nominations, 2027 stadium tour.
Slipknot (comics)
Slipknot (Christopher Weiss), DC Comics supervillain created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan, debuting in The Fury of Firestorm #28 (1984); a rope-wielding former chemist, Firestorm foe, Suicide Squad member, and 2016 film character played by Adam Beach.
Slipknot discography
Slipknot discography: seven Roadrunner studio albums (1999–2022) by the Des Moines, Iowa metal band, plus the 1996 self-released Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., live albums, and reissues.
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE), also called slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), is an adolescent hip disorder where the femoral head displaces through the growth plate, most often in obese boys aged 10-16, treated by in situ screw fixation.
Slipper lobster
Slipper lobster (Scyllaridae), also shovel-nosed or Spanish lobster: flattened achelatan decapod crustaceans with plate-like antennae, phyllosoma larvae, Triassic fossils, and minor fisheries such as Thenus and Scyllarides.
Slippery liquid-infused porous surface
A slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS) is a porous solid infused with liquid lubricant that repels water, oils, ice, and blood, introduced at Harvard in 2011.
Slippery slope
Slippery slope argument (SSA), also called the slippery slope fallacy: an argument that an initial action will likely lead through stages to an unacceptable outcome. Variants are empirical, logical, conceptual; strength tracks probability, utility, and similarity between slope endpoints.
Slippery When Wet
Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi's third studio album released August 18, 1986, recorded in Vancouver with Bruce Fairbairn; best-selling album of 1987, 15x Platinum RIAA, 28 million copies sold.
Slippin' Jimmy
Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy is a 2022 six-episode AMC+ animated prequel about young Jimmy McGill, the future Saul Goodman, scamming through 1970s Catholic school in Chicago with friend Marco; each short parodies a film genre.
Slipstream
A slipstream is the stream of fluid, typically air, flowing behind a moving body, especially the accelerated, swirling column behind an aircraft propeller, or in cycling, the reduced-drag wake behind another rider.
Slipway
A slipway is a sloping structure, inclined toward the water, on which ships are built and launched; the patent slip of 1818 hauls vessels out for cheap repair.
SLIT trial
SLIT trial (NCT05570383): randomized double-blind Chinese trial at People's Hospital of Anshun City, Guizhou, comparing Dermatophagoides farinae sublingual immunotherapy drops with mometasone furoate nasal spray in 60 adults with perennial allergic rhinitis, studying ILC1/2/3 mechanisms.
Slit-lamp examination
Slit-lamp examination, or slit-lamp biomicroscopy, is an ophthalmic exam using a binocular microscope and adjustable blade of light to inspect the eye from lids to fundus.
SLIT2
SLIT2 (slit guidance ligand 2, formerly SLIL3) is a chromosome 4 gene encoding a secreted Slit glycoprotein ligand of Robo receptors, cleaved into N- and C-terminal fragments, involved in axon guidance and linked to CAKUT kidney anomalies.
Slither (2006 film)
Slither (2006) is James Gunn's horror-comedy directorial debut about alien slugs invading Wheelsy, South Carolina, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rooker; a box-office flop that became a cult classic with an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Slither.io
Slither.io: free-to-play multiplayer snake game launched March 2016 by Steve Howse (Lowtech Studios); eat pellets to grow, boost at 2x speed by shedding mass, kill rivals by head-on-body collisions; HTML5 servers hold 600 players.
Slitherlink
Slitherlink (数回), also called Loop the Loop, Fences, or Loopy, is a Nikoli logic puzzle from June 1989: draw one closed loop on a dot grid so each numbered cell has exactly that many edges on the loop; its solvability problem is NP-complete.
Slitless spectroscopy
Slitless spectroscopy is an astronomical technique in which a single exposure records spectra for every object in a field of view, with no entrance slit, the object itself acting as the slit.
Slitterhead
Slitterhead (野狗子) is a 2024 action-horror game by Bokeh Game Studio, Keiichiro Toyama's first post-Silent Hill title. Players possess humans as the Hyoki to fight monsters in Kowlong; Metacritic 62.
Sliver (film)
Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger, adapted from Ira Levin's 1991 novel.
Slivovitz
Slivovitz (šljivovica, śliwowica, slivovice) is a central and eastern European plum brandy distilled from fermented damson plums, 40–60% ABV, a generic EU name, Serbia's national drink.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a long-running astronomical survey that has imaged and taken spectra of millions of stars, galaxies, and quasars since 1998.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey large-scale structure results
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey large-scale structure results are findings from SDSS's spectroscopic galaxy and quasar surveys, which used baryon acoustic oscillations to measure cosmic distances and dark energy from 2000 onward.
Sloan Great Wall
The Sloan Great Wall is a vast filament of galaxies about a billion light-years from Earth, identified in 2003 by J. Richard Gott III and Mario Jurić as then the largest known structure.
Sloane (given name)
Sloane is a modern English given name, mostly for girls, from the Irish surname Ó Sluaghadháin ("descendant of Sluaghadhán", from Sluaghadh, raider). US girls' rank peaked at #140 in 2022; about 98% of bearers are female.