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SmoothQuant

SmoothQuant is a training-free post-training quantization method enabling 8-bit weight and activation (W8A8) inference for large language models, introduced by MIT and NVIDIA researchers in November 2022.

Smoothstone Lake

Smoothstone Lake is a large, lightly accessed lake in central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 68,959 acres with a 96 km shoreline, a provincial recreation site, and a year-round fishing and hunting lodge.

Smorgon

FC Smorgon (ФК Смаргонь), Belarusian football club from Smarhon founded 1987 as Stankostroitel, renamed 1993; plays in Belarusian First League at Yunost Stadium; Premier League spells 2007-2009 and 2021-2025.

Smørrebrød

Smørrebrød, the Danish open-faced sandwich on rugbrød rye bread, literally 'butter bread'; distinguished from everyday rugbrødsmad, with a documented restaurant tradition from 1883 Nimb and Oskar Davidsen's famous 140 cm menu list.

SMOS (satellite)

SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) is a European Space Agency Earth observation satellite launched in 2009 to measure soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity.

Smosh

Smosh is an American YouTube sketch comedy brand founded in 2005 by Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla; sold to Defy Media in 2011, bought by Mythical in 2019 for under $10 million, and bought back by its founders in June 2023.

Smosh Games

Smosh Games is Smosh's YouTube gaming channel, created July 7, 2011 and launched September 25, 2012 as a Smosh-ClevverGames venture. Originally video-game focused with Hecox, Padilla, Takahashi, Sohinki, Jovenshire and Lasercorn, it now features the Smosh cast playing board and tabletop games; about 8.63 million subscribers.

Smosh: The Movie

Smosh: The Movie (2015) is a comedy starring YouTube duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, directed by Alex Winter, in which they enter a YouTube portal to delete an embarrassing video before Anthony's high school reunion; produced by Defy Media and AwesomenessTV, released by Lionsgate.

SMOTE

SMOTE, the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique, is a machine learning preprocessing method that balances imbalanced classification datasets by generating synthetic minority-class examples through interpolation, introduced by Chawla and colleagues in 2002.

Smother (TV series)

Smother is an Irish investigative thriller by Kate O'Riordan for RTÉ One, starring Dervla Kirwan as Val Ahern investigating her husband's cliff-top death in County Clare; three series, RTS Ireland Best Drama winner, 2025 Slovak format sale.

Smothered (2025 film)

Smothered (sMOTHERed; Indonesian title Legenda Kelam Malin Kundang) is a 2025 Indonesian psychological thriller directed by Rafki Hidayat and Kevin Rahardjo, adapted from the Malin Kundang folktale, starring Rio Dewanto as an amnesiac micro painter; released November 2025 in Indonesia and on Shudder May 2026, distinct from John Schneider's 2016 horror-comedy of the same name.

Smothers Brothers

The Smothers Brothers, Tom (1937-2023) and Dick Smothers, American folk-comedy duo; their CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969) brought political satire to prime time and was canceled after censorship battles with CBS.

Smoulder

Smoulder is a Canadian epic heavy/doom metal band formed in Calgary in 2013, known for sword-and-sorcery lyrics, Michael Whelan cover art, and the 2023 album Violent Creed of Vengeance.

Smouldering myeloma

Smouldering myeloma (smouldering multiple myeloma, SMM) is an asymptomatic precursor of multiple myeloma with 10–60% clonal bone marrow plasma cells and no CRAB damage; high-risk SMM progresses at 40–50% in 2 years and daratumumab was FDA-approved for it in 2025.

SMPD1

SMPD1 (sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 1, ASM) is a human gene on 11p15.4 encoding lysosomal acid sphingomyelinase, which cleaves sphingomyelin to ceramide; biallelic variants cause Niemann-Pick disease types A, B, and A/B (ASMD).

SMPTE color bars

SMPTE color bars, also known as color bars or NTSC color bars, are a television test pattern developed at CBS Laboratories in the 1970s for aligning NTSC video signals and calibrating picture monitors.

SMPTE timecode

SMPTE timecode, formally the SMPTE ST 12 suite, labels each frame of video, film, and audio with an hour:minute:second:frame address, introduced in 1967 to synchronize cameras, recorders, and editing systems.

SMR-160

The SMR-160, originally named HI-SMUR, is a 160 MWe small modular pressurized water reactor with passive safety systems, designed by Holtec International and cooled entirely by natural circulation rather than pumps.

Smriti Irani (स्मृति ईरानी)

Smriti Irani (स्मृति ईरानी), BJP politician and former TV actor of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi; Union minister 2014–2024 (HRD, Textiles, I&B, WCD, Minority Affairs); beat Rahul Gandhi in Amethi 2019, lost there 2024.

Smriti Mandhana

Smriti Mandhana (born 1996, Mumbai) is an Indian left-handed opening batter, India women's captain from October 2026, first Indian woman with centuries in all three formats, and holder of the record for most international runs and centuries in women's cricket.

Smrť Jánošíkova

The Death of Jánošík (Smrť Jánošíkova) is an 1862 lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Ján Botto, portraying the outlaw's execution as a symbol of national hope.

SMRT sequencing

SMRT sequencing, also known as PacBio SMRT, is a long-read DNA sequencing method that watches a single polymerase replicate one DNA molecule in real time, detecting methylation.

SMS

SMS (Short Message Service) is a text messaging service of mobile networks, developed in the 1980s as part of the GSM standard and limited to 160 characters per message.

SMS Cap Trafalgar

SMS Cap Trafalgar, also known as Cap Trafalgar, was a German ocean liner converted into an auxiliary cruiser and sunk by HMS Carmania in 1914.

SMS DPpostop trial

SMS DPpostop (NCT04313855) was a completed 306-patient diagnostic trial at Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph testing SMS text messaging plus the DN2 questionnaire for early detection of postoperative neuropathic pain after ambulatory surgery; no results posted.

SMS Goeben

SMS Goeben, later Yavuz Sultan Selim, was a German Moltke-class battlecruiser whose 1914 escape to Constantinople helped bring the Ottoman Empire into World War I.

SMS group

SMS group is a German engineering company headquartered in Mönchengladbach that designs and builds plants for iron and steelmaking, nonferrous metals, and lithium-ion battery recycling.

SMS language

SMS language, also called texting language or textese, is the abbreviated spelling, acronyms, and emoticons used in text messages, which arose from the SMS limit of 160 characters.

SMS-KAN

SMS-KAN (CVCL_7131) is a human neuroblastoma cell line established in 1978 from a pelvic primary tumor of a 36-month-old girl before therapy; its paired post-treatment line SMS-KANR came from the same patient's relapsed bone marrow, making the pair a before/after-chemotherapy model.

SMS-KCNR

SMS-KCNR (KCNR, CVCL_7134) is a human neuroblastoma cell line established in 1979 from bone marrow after chemotherapy, MYCN-amplified with ALK F1174L, paired with SMS-KCNR's pre-treatment counterpart SMS-KCNR's sister line SMS-KCN, and widely used in differentiation and drug-resistance research.