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Slump
A slump is a type of landslide in which a coherent mass of soil or rock moves downslope by rotational sliding along a curved, spoon-shaped failure surface.
Slums of Beverly Hills
Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 American comedy-drama, Tamara Jenkins's first feature, starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, and Marisa Tomei as a family chasing a Beverly Hills address.
Slurm
Slurm is an open-source, highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux clusters, begun at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2002 and now powering a majority of TOP500 supercomputers.
Slurm Workload Manager
Slurm is an open source workload manager and job scheduler for Linux clusters, begun at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2002 and used on most top supercomputers.
Slurpee
Slurpee, 7-Eleven's frozen carbonated slush drink, debuted in 1966 after the chain licensed Omar Knedlik's ICEE machine technology in 1965; sugar and CO2 keep it slushy, and July 11 is Free Slurpee Day.
Slurry
A slurry is a mixture of insoluble solid particles dispersed in a liquid, flowing as a single phase and handled in mineral processing, ceramics, and battery manufacturing.
Slurry pump
A slurry pump, also known as a lined pump or dredge pump, is a heavy-duty centrifugal pump that transports abrasive slurries in mining and dredging.
Slurry reactor
A slurry reactor is a multiphase chemical reactor in which solid catalyst particles are suspended in liquid while gas bubbles through, used for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, methanol synthesis, and hydrogenation.
Slurry seal
Slurry seal is a low-cost pavement preservation treatment of emulsified asphalt, water, fine aggregate, and mineral filler, spread thin to seal cracks and waterproof surfaces.
Slurry shield
A slurry shield is a tunnel boring machine that supports the tunnel face with pressurized bentonite slurry, best suited to coarse sand and gravel with high groundwater pressure.
Slurry trench cut-off wall
A slurry trench cut-off wall is a vertical underground barrier built by excavating a bentonite-stabilized trench and filling it with low-permeability material to block groundwater flow and contain contaminants.
Slurry tunnel boring machine
A slurry tunnel boring machine, commonly called a mixshield, is a TBM that supports the tunnel face with pressurized bentonite slurry, chosen where groundwater must be held under tight pressure control.
Slush (startup event)
Slush is a not-for-profit startup event held each November in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2008 to connect early-stage founders with venture capital investors through matchmaking and pitching.
Slush fund
A slush fund is a pool of money kept outside an organization's audited accounts and used for undisclosed purposes, such as bribery or buying political influence.
Slush hydrogen
Slush hydrogen (SLH2) is a mixture of solid hydrogen particles in subcooled liquid hydrogen, studied as a denser rocket propellant with about 16% higher density than liquid hydrogen.
Slut
Slut is an offensive English word for a woman thought to have many sexual partners, first attested c. 1400 meaning an untidy woman; central to slut-shaming, the sexual double standard, and SlutWalk reclamation.
Slut Me Out 2
Slut Me Out 2 is a 2024 explicit single by Memphis rapper NLE Choppa, sequel to his 2x Platinum 2022 song Slut Me Out; released via Warner Records, produced by EMRLD and Synthetic, known for its self-love hook and viral spread.
Slut Pop Miami
Slut Pop Miami is the fourth EP by Kim Petras, released February 14, 2024 on Republic/Amigo Records; a 12-track, roughly 24-minute Dr. Luke-produced sequel to her 2022 EP Slut Pop with a Miami theme.
Slut-shaming
Slut-shaming, also called slut bashing, is the stigmatization of women and girls for actual or perceived sexual behavior or appearance. Key facts: sexual double standard, 50% of girls affected, SlutWalk protest movement.
Slut: The Play
Slut: The Play is a Katie Cappiello play by The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company, premiered at the 2013 NY Fringe Festival, about teen Joey Del Marco's sexual assault and slut-shaming; adapted into Netflix's Grand Army.
Slutsk Uprising
The Slutsk Uprising (Слуцкае паўстанне) was an armed 1920 attempt by Belarusian forces loyal to the Belarusian People's Republic to defend the Slutsk district against the Red Army.
SlutWalk
SlutWalk: transnational feminist protest movement founded in Toronto in 2011 after a police officer's victim-blaming remark at York University; marches against slut-shaming and rape culture, spread to over 50 countries.
SLV (Indian rocket)
The SLV-3 was India's first satellite launch vehicle, an all-solid four-stage rocket developed by ISRO, led by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and flown four times between 1979 and 1983.
Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone was an American funk rock band from San Francisco, led by Sly Stone and active from the late 1960s to 1975.
Sly Cooper
Sly Cooper is a PlayStation stealth platformer series starring a raccoon master thief, made by Sucker Punch (2002-2005) and Sanzaru (Thieves in Time, 2013); Sony owns the IP, dormant since 2013.
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Sly Raccoon) is a 2002 Sucker Punch stealth platformer for PS2, starring raccoon thief Sly Cooper recovering the stolen Thievius Raccoonus book from the Fiendish Five; Metacritic 86, re-released on PS4/PS5 in 2024.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, also known as Sly Cooper 4, is a stealth platform game by Sanzaru Games, released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.
Sly Dunbar
Sly Dunbar, born Lowell Fillmore Dunbar, was a Jamaican drummer and producer, half of Sly & Robbie, known for the rockers beat and work with reggae's biggest names.
Sly Stone
Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart, 1943–2025), American funk pioneer, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, the first major racially integrated, mixed-gender band; hits "Everyday People" and "Family Affair"; died of COPD.
Sm and LSm protein families
The Sm and LSm protein families, also called Sm and Sm-like proteins, are RNA-binding protein families that form seven-membered rings central to RNA splicing and decay.