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Slovo

Slovo (Ukrainian for "word") was an association of Ukrainian writers in exile, initiated in New York in 1954 as the diaspora's principal literary organization and successor to MUR.

Slovo i chas

Slovo i chas (Слово і час; "Word and Time") is an open-access Ukrainian academic journal of literary theory and history, published in Kyiv since 1957 and known as Radians'ke literaturoznavstvo until 1990.

Slow Burster

The Slow Burster, designated 4U 1728-34, is a neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary whose type-I thermonuclear X-ray bursts recur at intervals of hours, named to distinguish it from the nearby Rapid Burster.

Slow cooker

Slow cooker: countertop electric appliance cooking food at 170–280°F over hours; also called Crock-Pot, the 1971 Rival rebrand of Irving Naxon's patented 1940 Naxon Beanery, inspired by Jewish Sabbath cholent.

Slow Damage

Slow Damage (スロウ・ダメージ) is a 2021 adult boys' love visual novel by Nitro+CHiRAL, written by Fuchii Kabura with art by Yamada Gitarou, set in the crime-ridden district Shinkoumi; English release by JAST BLUE in 2022.

Slow feature analysis

Slow feature analysis is an unsupervised learning algorithm that extracts slowly varying features from fast-changing input signals, capturing stable underlying causes; it is used in machine learning and computational neuroscience.

Slow Food

Slow Food is a global grassroots movement and NGO founded in Italy in 1986 by Carlo Petrini after a protest against a McDonald's near Rome's Spanish Steps; its 1989 Paris manifesto launched an international movement for "good, clean and fair" food, Presidia biodiversity projects, and eco-gastronomy in over 160 countries.

Slow Horses

Slow Horses is a British Apple TV espionage drama adapted from Mick Herron's Slough House novels, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, head of an MI5 dumping ground for disgraced agents. Six-episode seasons have aired annually since April 2022, with seasons 7 and 8 confirmed.

Slow Horses (novel)

Slow Horses (2010) is Mick Herron's first Slough House spy novel, introducing Jackson Lamb and disgraced MI5 agent River Cartwright; a slow-burn bestseller adapted as the Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman.

Slow Jamz

Slow Jamz is a 2003 hip-hop single by Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, produced by West and sampling Luther Vandross's "A House Is Not a Home." It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2004 and appears on both Kamikaze and The College Dropout.

Slow light

Slow light is the reduction of the group velocity of a light pulse far below its vacuum speed of about 300,000 km/s, using dispersion in materials or photonic structures.

Slow loris

Slow loris (Nycticebus): nocturnal venomous strepsirrhine primates of South and Southeast Asia, nine species, brachial-gland-plus-saliva venom, CITES Appendix I, Endangered from pet trade and habitat loss.

Slow match

A slow match, or match cord, is chemically treated cord that smolders slowly without an open flame, used to ignite matchlock firearms and some cannons.

Slow muscle cell

Slow muscle cell (slow-twitch, type I fiber): oxidative, fatigue-resistant skeletal muscle cell defined by MyHC I expression; soleus-rich, 10:5:1 power ratio versus fast fibers, high lipid storage, atrophy-resistant with aging.

Slow Poems

Slow Poems (Hebrew: Shirim Itiyim) is a poetry collection by the Israeli poet Meir Wieseltier, published in Tel Aviv in 2000, the year he received the Israel Prize.

Slow pyrolysis

Slow pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of biomass at a low heating rate and long residence time without oxygen, producing biochar as its main product.

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P.

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P. (Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P.) is the only EP and second release by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released March 1999 on Constellation (CST006) and Kranky (KRANK 034), with two tracks, Moya and BBF3, totaling about 28:36.

Slow sand filter

A slow sand filter is a drinking-water treatment device in which water passes slowly through fine sand, whose biologically active surface layer removes pathogens; first used at Paisley, Scotland, in 1804.

Slow scan television

Slow scan television (SSTV) is an amateur radio method for sending still images as audio tones within a 3 kHz voice channel, conceived by Copthorne MacDonald in 1957.

Slow sound

Slow sound is the propagation of acoustic waves far below the normal speed of sound, produced by strong dispersion from local resonances in acoustic metamaterials.

Slow strain rate testing

Slow strain rate testing (SSRT) is a corrosion test that pulls a metal specimen to failure in a harsh environment to screen for stress corrosion cracking.

Slow Train Coming

Slow Train Coming is Bob Dylan's 1979 Columbia album, his first after converting to born-again Christianity, recorded at Muscle Shoals with Jerry Wexler, Barry Beckett, and Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler; its single Gotta Serve Somebody won a Grammy.

Slow transit constipation

Slow transit constipation (STC) is a chronic colonic motility disorder in which stool moves abnormally slowly through the colon, causing infrequent bowel movements, hard stools, and abdominal discomfort.

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York, investing since 2011 with early positions in Slack, Venmo, and PillPack.

Slow West

Slow West (2015) is John Maclean's feature-debut revisionist Western, a UK/New Zealand co-production starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee, set in 1870 Colorado but shot in New Zealand, winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

Slow-roll parameters

Slow-roll parameters are small dimensionless quantities measuring how slowly the inflaton field driving cosmic inflation changes as the universe expands; inflation ends where the first parameter reaches 1.

Slow-start (computer networks)

Slow-start is the startup phase of TCP congestion control, in which the sender's congestion window grows exponentially, doubling each round trip, until capacity or a threshold is reached.

Slow-wave sleep

Slow-wave sleep (SWS, deep sleep, stage N3) is the deepest NREM sleep stage, defined by high-amplitude 0.5–2 Hz delta waves on EEG, homeostatically regulated, central to memory consolidation, and reduced with aging.

Slowdive

Slowdive: English shoegaze/dream pop band formed in Reading in 1989 by Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell; albums Just for a Day, Souvlaki, Pygmalion, then 2014 reunion and Slowdive (2017), everything is alive (2023).

Slowhand

Slowhand is Eric Clapton's fifth solo studio album, released 25 November 1977 on RSO Records, produced by Glyn Johns at Olympic Studios, London. Known for "Cocaine", "Lay Down Sally", and "Wonderful Tonight", it reached the Top 10 in 8 countries.