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Smoore International Holdings
Smoore International Holdings, founded by Chen Zhiping in Shenzhen, is a Hong Kong-listed manufacturer of vaping devices, the world's largest by revenue in 2019 with 16.5% market share.
Smoot
The smoot is a humorous unit of length equal to five feet seven inches, used in 1958 to measure the Harvard Bridge at 364.4 smoots.
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, formally the Tariff Act of 1930, was a US law signed by President Hoover in June 1930 that raised duties on thousands of imported goods.
Smooth (Santana song)
Smooth (Santana song, also "Room 17"): 1999 Latin rock hit by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, from Supernatural; 12 weeks at Hot 100 number one, three 2000 Grammys, ranked Billboard's second most successful song.
Smooth (UK radio network)
Smooth (Smooth Radio) is a UK easy listening music radio network owned by Global Radio, formerly GMG Radio's over-50s brand; third biggest UK commercial radio brand with about 7.3 million weekly listeners.
Smooth Cayenne
Smooth Cayenne, also known as Giant Kew, is a pineapple cultivar introduced from French Guiana in 1820 that supplied over 70% of world pineapple production at its peak.
Smooth Criminal
"Smooth Criminal" is a 1987 Michael Jackson song from Bad, produced with Quincy Jones, charting at No. 7 in the US and No. 8 in the UK, famous for the Moonwalker short film, the patented 45-degree anti-gravity lean, and Alien Ant Farm's 2001 cover.
Smooth green snake
Smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis), also called smooth greensnake or grass snake: a small bright-green North American colubrid with 15 smooth scale rows, an insect-only diet, temperature-dependent sex determination, and Least Concern status.
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz, also called lite jazz or contemporary jazz, is a radio-created genre blending jazz fusion, R&B, and pop into melodic instrumentals; named by Broadcast Architecture focus groups in the late 1980s, it peaked at 200+ US stations and $190 million annual ad revenue before the 2007 Portable People Meter collapse.
Smooth muscle
Smooth muscle: involuntary, non-striated muscle of hollow organs and vessels; single-unit and multi-unit types; myosin light chain phosphorylation via Ca2+-calmodulin-MLCK; latch state sustains tone cheaply; VSMC plasticity drives vascular disease.
Smooth muscle cell
Smooth muscle cell (SMC, CL:0000192): non-striated, spindle-shaped involuntary muscle cell with one central nucleus, 30-200 μm long, lining hollow organs and blood vessels; contracts via calmodulin-MLCK myosin phosphorylation and latch-bridge tone.
Smooth muscle cell apoptotic process
Smooth muscle cell apoptotic process (GO:0034390, SMC apoptosis): regulated programmed cell death in smooth muscle cells, central to vascular remodeling, atherosclerosis, aneurysm, and hypertension, and modulated by statins and antihypertensive drugs.
Smooth Muscle Contraction
Smooth muscle contraction: calcium-calmodulin activation of myosin light-chain kinase phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chains, driving actin-myosin sliding anchored at dense bodies and focal adhesions; also caldesmon pathway, Rho kinase calcium sensitization, latch-bridges.
Smooth newt
Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, common newt), a small 8–10 cm European salamander; biphasic lifestyle, male breeding crest, spotted throat distinguishing it from the palmate newt.
Smooth Operator
Smooth Operator is a 1984 Sade song written by Sade Adu and Ray St. John for Diamond Life; UK number 19 but US number five on the Hot 100, the band's international breakthrough.
Smooth overlap of atomic positions
Smooth overlap of atomic positions (SOAP) is a mathematical descriptor that encodes the local atomic environment as a fixed-length vector, serving as the input representation for Gaussian approximation potentials.
Smooth pursuit
Smooth pursuit: continuous eye movement tracking a slowly moving object to hold its image on the fovea; requires a moving target, has 100–125 ms latency, and involves MT/MST, FEF, cerebellum, and vestibular nucleus pathways.
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk is Joyce Chopra's 1985 independent drama, also known as an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?', starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams; it won the 1986 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and received a 4K restoration in 2020.
Smoothbore
A smoothbore is a firearm or gun barrel whose bore is a plain, unrifled tube that imparts no spin, now dominant as the main gun of Western battle tanks.
Smoothed analysis
Smoothed analysis is a framework for analyzing algorithms that measures their performance on inputs perturbed by small random noise, introduced by Spielman and Teng in 2001.
Smoothed ℓ0 minimization
Smoothed ℓ0 minimization, or SL0, is an algorithm for sparse signal reconstruction proposed by Mohimani, Babaie-Zadeh, and Jutten, typically far faster than basis pursuit with equal or better accuracy.
Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree Lagrangian numerical method that simulates fluid flows using discrete particles, introduced in 1977 for astrophysics and now used across engineering and computer graphics.
Smoothelin
Smoothelin (SMTN, chromosome 22q12.2) is a cytoskeletal protein found only in contractile smooth muscle cells. Isoforms A (59 kDa, visceral) and B (~110 kDa, vascular) arise from dual promoters; used in tumor diagnostics.
SmoothGrad
SmoothGrad is a technique for reducing visual noise in gradient-based saliency maps of neural networks, introduced in 2017 by Daniel Smilkov, Nikhil Thorat, Been Kim, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg.
Smoothie
Smoothie: thick blended drink of fruit or vegetables with juice, milk, or yogurt. Also called frappé aux fruits. Distinct from juice by retained fiber; word dates to 1957, health-drink boom from 1980.
Smoothie King Center
The Smoothie King Center, formerly New Orleans Arena, is an indoor arena in New Orleans and home of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans, opened in 1999.
Smoothing problem (stochastic processes)
The smoothing problem in stochastic processes estimates a system's state using observations from both before and after that time, giving more accurate estimates than filtering at the cost of extra computation.
Smoothing reactor
A smoothing reactor is a large inductor connected in series at the DC terminal of an HVDC converter station, smoothing current ripple and limiting fault current.
Smoothing spline
A smoothing spline is a nonparametric regression method that fits a flexible curve to data by minimizing squared errors plus a roughness penalty, with a smoothing parameter controlling wiggliness.
Smoothness
Smoothness is the property of functions and maps having derivatives of all orders that vary continuously, called C-infinity, in contrast to Ck functions with only k continuous derivatives.