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SNOPT
SNOPT (Sparse Nonlinear OPTimizer) is a software package for large-scale linear and nonlinear constrained optimization, developed by Philip Gill, Walter Murray, and Michael Saunders and widely used for aerospace trajectory optimization.
Snoqualmie Falls
Snoqualmie Falls is a 270-foot waterfall on the Snoqualmie River in Snoqualmie, Washington, about 30 miles east of Seattle, drawing about 2 million visitors a year.
Snoring
Snoring: audible vibration of upper-airway soft tissues, mainly the soft palate, during sleep. Affects up to 50% of adults; ranges from benign primary snoring to a marker of obstructive sleep apnea; treated with weight loss, oral appliances, CPAP, or surgery.
Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI, a 2019 Stanford AI Lab spinout led by CEO Alex Ratner, is a frontier AI data lab offering Snorkel Flow programmatic labeling, weak supervision datasets, and RL environments; it raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation in 2026.
Snorkeling
Snorkeling: surface swimming with a mask, snorkel, and fins, no certification required. About 27 million snorkelers worldwide; drowning, often cardiac, is the main risk.
Snorlax (カビゴン)
Snorlax (カビゴン, Kabigon) is Pokémon #0143, a Normal-type Generation I Sleeping Pokémon that evolves from Munchlax, weighs 460 kg, eats 880–900 lbs of food daily, and was designed after Game Freak developer Koji Nishino.
snoRNA guide–target mapping
snoRNA guide–target mapping is the set of rules and experimental methods connecting each RNA methylation or pseudouridylation site to the snoRNA guide that specifies it, using fixed geometry rather than sequence alone.
snoRNAs and scaRNAs in disease
Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and small Cajal-body RNAs (scaRNAs) are non-coding RNAs whose defects cause diseases including Prader-Willi syndrome, Labrune syndrome, dyskeratosis congenita, cancer, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
snoRNP core proteins and assembly factors
snoRNP core proteins and assembly factors: the four core proteins of box C/D (fibrillarin, NOP56, NOP58, 15.5K) and box H/ACA (dyskerin, NHP2, NOP10, GAR1) snoRNPs, plus chaperones SHQ1, NAF1, NUFIP1, and HSP90/R2TP that assemble them.
Snorre field
Snorre is an oil and gas field in the Tampen area of the northern Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1992 from Snorre A and Snorre B.
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson is a cancer researcher known for gene-expression profiling of hepatocellular carcinoma and for leading the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute.
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), Icelandic chieftain, lawspeaker, and poet of Reykholt, traditionally credited with the Prose Edda (c. 1220) and Heimskringla; murdered 23 September 1241 for defying King Hákon of Norway.
Snort (game)
Snort is a two-player graph-coloring game attributed to Simon Norton, in which adjacent vertices may not differ in color and a player with no move loses.
SNORT trial
SNORT (NCT06330116) is a Swedish-Danish randomized trial led by Region Västerbotten comparing IQoro oral screen, eXciteosa neuromuscular electrical training, and group training for reducing AHI, snoring, and sleepiness in 141 adults with mild to moderate sleep apnea.
Snot (band)
Snot: Santa Barbara, California nu metal/hardcore band formed 1995, fronted by Lynn Strait; debut Get Some (Geffen, 1997); disbanded after Strait's December 1998 death; reunited 2025 with singer Andy Knapp.
SNOTEL
SNOTEL (SNOwpack TELemetry) is a network of more than 900 automated stations measuring snowpack in the mountains of the western United States, operated by the USDA.
Snotgirl
Snotgirl is an ongoing Image Comics series (since July 2016) by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Leslie Hung about Lottie Person, a fashion blogger whose glamorous online persona hides severe allergies and insecurity; 20 issues and four volumes exist.
Snotra Tesserae
Snotra Tesserae, a 1,000 km-wide tessera (deformed highland terrain) on Venus at 24°N 134°E, IAU-named 1997 for the Scandinavian goddess of wisdom; part of Venus's oldest terrain type.
Snovs'kyy Rayon
Snovs'kyy Rayon (Сновський район), also Snovsk or Shchors Raion, was a district of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Snovsk; created 1923, renamed Shchors 1935, renamed back 2016, abolished 2020 into Koriukivka Raion.
Snow
Snow, also called snow crystal, is precipitation of branched, hexagonal ice crystals formed from water vapor in clouds, often agglomerated into snowflakes that store water and reflect sunlight.
Snow (musician)
Snow (Darrin Kenneth O'Brien, born 1969, Toronto) is a Canadian dancehall-reggae artist whose 1993 single "Informer" spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold over 8 million copies, and was later remade as Daddy Yankee's "Con Calma."
Snow Bear
Snow Bear is a 2025 American hand-drawn animated short by Aaron Blaise, director of Brother Bear, about a lonely polar bear who builds a snow companion. Made solo over three years with 11,000+ drawings, it won the Annie Award and made the 98th Oscars shortlist.
Snow Buddies
Snow Buddies (2008), directed by Robert Vince, is a direct-to-video Disney family film in the Air Bud/Air Buddies franchise; five puppies are stranded in Ferntiuktuk, Alaska, and race sled dogs to get home.
Snow Country
Snow Country (Yukiguni, 雪国) is a 1948 novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, set in a snowbound hot-spring town and widely regarded as his masterpiece.
Snow course
A snow course is a permanent transect where snowpack depth and water content are measured at fixed points year after year to forecast seasonal water supply.
Snow cover decline
Snow cover decline is the shrinking area, water content, and duration of seasonal snow as the climate warms, with Arctic June snow cover halved since the 1960s.
Snow Crash
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's 1992 Bantam cyberpunk novel that coined the term "metaverse"; it follows hacker Hiro Protagonist and courier Y.T. against a language virus rooted in Sumerian Babel, later revived by Facebook's Meta rebranding.
Snow Day
Snow Day is a 2000 American family comedy film directed by Chris Koch and starring Mark Webber and Zena Grey, released by Paramount Pictures on February 11, 2000.
Snow depth
Snow depth is the vertical distance from a snowpack's surface to the ground, measured in centimeters or inches and distinct from snowfall and snow water equivalent.
Snow Dogs
Snow Dogs is a 2002 American family comedy directed by Brian Levant, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a Miami dentist who inherits sled dogs in Alaska.