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Smelt (fish)
Smelt (Osmeridae) are small, silvery Northern Hemisphere fish with marine, anadromous and freshwater forms, including rainbow smelt, eulachon, Delta smelt, and the European smelt Osmerus eperlanus; several species are fished commercially and several are threatened.
Smelting
Smelting, or metal smelting, is a pyrometallurgical process that heats ore with a reductant such as coke to extract metal, a chemical change beyond mere melting.
Smelting reduction
Smelting reduction is a group of ironmaking processes that turns iron ore into liquid hot metal in a reactor using non-coking coal instead of a coke-fired blast furnace.
Smena
Smena (Смена) is a Russian illustrated literary magazine founded in Moscow in January 1924 as the youth organ of the Soviet Communist Party, with a peak circulation of 3.5 million.
Smendes
Smendes, Egyptian Nesbanebdjed, was the founder and first king of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty and first ruler of the Third Intermediate Period, reigning from Tanis about 1070–1044 BC after Ramesses XI.
Smendes II
Smendes II, also known as Nesbanebdjed II, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 21st Dynasty, the seventh pontiff, serving briefly around 997–993 BC.
Smendes III
Smendes III, Egyptian Nisu-Ba-Neb-Djedet, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the 22nd Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Osorkon I who held the office around 884–874 BC.
Smenkhkare
Smenkhkare (Semenkhkare), late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh of the Amarna Period with throne name Ankhkheperure, husband of Meritaten. Debates cover one versus two rulers with Neferneferuaten, a possible co-regency with Akhenaten, and the disputed KV55 burial.
SMERSH (СМЕРШ)
SMERSH (СМЕРШ, from Smert shpionam, "Death to Spies") was Soviet military counterintelligence, 1943–1946, created from NKVD Special Departments, headed by Abakumov under Stalin, disbanded into the MGB.
Smertnik (смертник)
Smertnik (смертник), Russian for a person condemned or doomed to die; also suicide bomber (Chechen attacks, Dubrovka 2002) and, since 2022, slang for expendable Russian soldiers (smertonika, meat assaults).
SMET12
SMET12 is a recombinant anti-EGFR/CD3 bispecific antibody and T-cell engager developed by China's Zhejiang Shimai Pharmaceutical, in trials for EGFR-positive solid tumors including lung cancer and esophageal cancer.
Smetana (dairy product)
Smetana (сметана, śmietana, smotana) is a Central and Eastern European fermented cream, a sour cream relative made with mesophilic lactococci, typically 10–42% fat, heat-stable in cooking, defined by Russian GOST standards.
Smetana (Mercurian crater)
Smetana is a 190-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury at 48.5°S, 70.2°W, named for the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana under Mercury's artist-and-author crater naming theme.
SMG4
SMG4 (SuperMarioGlitchy4) is an Australian machinima web series by Luke Lerdwichagul on YouTube, running May 7, 2011 to December 27, 2025, 742 episodes, spawning Glitch Productions.
SMIC South (中芯南方集成电路制造有限公司)
SMIC South (中芯南方, Semiconductor Manufacturing South China Corporation) is a Shanghai-based semiconductor wafer-fabrication joint venture, established in 2016 to run SMIC's 14nm-and-below advanced-node production as its effectively controlled subsidiary.
SMICA
SMICA (Spectral Matching Independent Component Analysis) is a blind, spectral-domain method introduced in 2003 for separating the cosmic microwave background from foreground emissions, and one of Planck's four component-separation pipelines.
Śmigus-dyngus
Śmigus-dyngus, also lany poniedziałek or Wet Monday, is the Polish Easter Monday custom of dousing people with water and switching with willow branches; first recorded in the 1420 Poznań synod decree, celebrated in Buffalo's Dyngus Day parade.
SMIL (computer)
SMIL (Siffermaskinen i Lund, "the Lund Digital Machine") was an early Swedish electronic computer completed at Lund University in 1956 as a copy of BESK, Sweden's second computer.
Smilacaceae
Smilacaceae (catbrier or greenbrier family) is a monocot family in Liliales of climbing, prickly, tendril-bearing vines, now usually one genus Smilax with about 200-370 species, dioecious with berry fruits, cosmopolitan and richest in Asia.
Smile
Smile: facial expression from zygomaticus major contraction; the Duchenne smile adds orbicularis oculi (AU6). Distinguished from other facial expressions by reward, affiliative, and dominance functional types, Darwin-Duchenne history, facial feedback effects, and cultural variation in meaning.
Smile (2022 film)
Smile (2022) is Parker Finn's feature-directorial-debut psychological horror, adapted from his short Laura Hasn't Slept, starring Sosie Bacon as cursed psychiatrist Rose Cotter; it earned $217 million on a $17 million budget and spawned Smile 2 (2024).
Smile (band)
Smile (band): the 1968-1970 British trio of Brian May, Tim Staffell, and Roger Taylor, precursor to Queen; recorded six songs including "Earth" and "Doin' Alright"; distinct from The Smile (Yorke/Greenwood) and a California punk-pop Smile.
Smile (Charlie Chaplin song)
Smile is a standard whose melody Charlie Chaplin composed for Modern Times (1936); John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the title and lyrics in 1954. Nat King Cole had the 1955 first hit; David Raksin described co-writing the film score.
Smile (film series)
Smile is an American supernatural horror film series created by writer-director Parker Finn, about a parasitic entity passed through witnessed deaths, with films released in 2022 and 2024.
Smile (Katy Perry album)
Smile is Katy Perry's sixth studio album (Capitol, August 28, 2020), a 12-track pop record about resilience after her 2017 album Witness; UK chart peak No. 5, Metacritic 58, released the day her daughter was born.
Smile (The Beach Boys album)
SMiLE is the unfinished 1966-67 Beach Boys album Brian Wilson built with lyricist Van Dyke Parks as a follow-up to Pet Sounds; shelved in 1967, later realized as Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (2004) and The Smile Sessions (2011).
Smile 2
Smile 2 (2024) is Parker Finn's supernatural horror sequel to Smile, starring Naomi Scott as cursed pop star Skye Riley. Released October 18, 2024 by Paramount on a $28 million budget; it opened to $23 million and grossed $138.1 million worldwide.
Smile Code (失笑)
Smile Code (失笑, Lost Laughter) is a 2024 Chinese romantic comedy drama directed by Che Liangyi, starring Shen Yue as stand-up comedian Gu Yi and Lin Yi as Liang Daiwen, a man with alexithymia; 34 episodes, premiered 8 November 2024 on Tencent Video, Douban 6.8.
Smile Glico Park
Smile Glico Park (スマイルグリコパーク) is a Glico-sponsored park and family attraction area inside Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi, Sendai, opened May 3, 2016, with Japan's first baseball-stadium Ferris wheel (36 m, 64 riders) and free rides.
Smile Land
Smile Land (مدينة العاب سمايلاند) is an amusement and water park in Kirkuk, Iraq, the city's first water park, built on 30,000 square meters by Turkey's Polin, with a 54-meter Italian Ferris wheel; distinct from the Smileland indoor mall chain in Erbil and Baghdad.