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Snowboarding culture
Snowboarding culture is the lifestyle subculture that grew up around snowboarding, shaped by skateboarding, surfing, and punk do-it-yourself ethics, and marked by distinctive dress, slang, and risk-taking.
Snowbombing
Snowbombing is a six-day music and ski festival held each April in Mayrhofen, a resort in the Zillertal Alps of Austria, drawing about 7,000 people to the season's end.
Snowcat
Snowcat: genericized term from the Tucker Sno-Cat trademark for tracked snow vehicles. Covers groomers (PistenBully, Prinoth), utility and passenger models, specs, grooming science, costs, and electric models.
Snowclone
Snowclone: a customizable formulaic phrase template (X is the new Y), coined 15 January 2004 by Glen Whitman on Language Log responding to Geoffrey Pullum; blend of snow cone + clone, from the Eskimo words-for-snow trope, now studied in construction grammar and NLP.
Snowden (film)
Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller directed by Oliver Stone, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, the former CIA and NSA contractor who leaked documents exposing the agency's global mass-surveillance programs.
Snowdon
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), 1,085 m, is Wales's highest mountain in Eryri National Park, with six walking routes, a rack-and-pinion railway opened in 1896, the Hafod Eryri summit centre, and over 600,000 annual visitors.
Snowdonia
Snowdonia (Eryri) is Wales' largest national park, 823 sq mi in north Wales, home to Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), 26,000 residents, 58% Welsh speakers, and nearly 4 million annual visitors; officially renamed Eryri in 2022.
Snowdonia Aerospace Centre
Snowdonia Aerospace Centre is an aerospace test facility at Llanbedr Airfield in Gwynedd, Wales, on the former RAF Llanbedr site, designated by the CAA for BVLOS drone testing.
Snowdrop (설강화) (South Korean TV series)
Snowdrop (설강화: snowdrop) is a 2021–2022 JTBC/Disney+ Korean drama, 16 episodes, directed by Jo Hyun-tak, starring Jung Hae-in and Blackpink's Jisoo, set in 1987 Seoul amid a dormitory hostage crisis and major historical-distortion controversy.
Snowfall (song)
Snowfall (lowercase "snowfall") ambient single by Russians Øneheart (Dmitry Volynkin) and reidenshi (Yevgeny Chirkov), released January 14, 2022 on Dreamscape; went viral on TikTok, near one billion Spotify streams, RIAA double platinum.
Snowfall (TV series)
Snowfall is an FX crime drama (2017-2023, six seasons, 60 episodes) created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, following Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and the CIA-linked rise of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
Snowflake
A snowflake is an ice crystal, or aggregate of crystals, that forms in clouds and grows while falling, with six arms shaped by temperature and humidity.
Snowflake (gorilla)
Snowflake (Floquet de Neu, Copito de Nieve), the only known albino gorilla, a Western lowland gorilla from Equatorial Guinea housed at Barcelona Zoo 1966-2003; SLC45A2 recessive mutation from inbreeding.
Snowflake (slang)
Snowflake (slang): derogatory English term for a person seen as overly sensitive or easily offended, popularized by Fight Club, politicized after 2015–2016 as a right-wing insult toward liberals and the 'snowflake generation.'
Snowflake Cortex
Snowflake Cortex is Snowflake's suite of LLM-based AI features, including Cortex Analyst, AI Functions, Search, Agents, and the Cortex Code coding agent (now Snowflake CoCo), running inside Snowflake's governed security perimeter.
Snowflake data breach
The Snowflake data breach was a 2024 extortion campaign in which attackers used infostealer malware to access Snowflake customers' accounts, affecting Ticketmaster, AT&T, and Santander.
Snowflake divertor
The snowflake divertor is an advanced tokamak divertor configuration in which two nearby magnetic nulls form a snowflake-shaped separatrix, spreading heat exhaust over four strike points.
Snowflake Inc.
Snowflake Inc., also known as Snowflake Computing, is an American cloud data platform company founded in 2012, offering data warehousing, data sharing, and AI services.
Snowflake schema
The snowflake schema is a data warehouse design, a variation of the star schema, in which normalized dimension tables are split into sub-dimension tables, reducing redundancy but adding query joins.
Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration
Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration (SVD, OMIM 193230) is a rare autosomal dominant vitreoretinopathy with retinal snowflake deposits, fibrillar vitreous degeneration, early cataract, corneal guttae, and retinal detachment risk, caused by KCNJ13 (Kir7.1) mutations.
SnowGlobe Music Festival
SnowGlobe Music Festival was a three-day New Year's Eve music festival in South Lake Tahoe, California, founded by Chad Donnelly in 2011 and permanently canceled in August 2021.
Snowmaking
Snowmaking, also called technical or artificial snow production, uses snow guns (fan and air–water types) to make snow from water and air at wet-bulb temperatures below about −1.5 °C; invented in 1934, it now equips most Alpine and US ski slopes.
Snowman
Snowman: humanlike figure sculpted from snow, typically three stacked snowballs; built best with 3-8% moisture snow at 0-2°C; first depicted around 1380; record Olympia, 122 ft, Bethel, Maine, 2008.
Snowman (horse)
Snowman (1948-1974), also "The Cinderella Horse," was a grey mixed-breed ex-plow horse bought for $80 off a slaughter truck in 1956 by Harry de Leyer who became the 1958 American show jumping Triple Crown champion.
Snowmelt freshet
A snowmelt freshet is the pronounced rise in river flow, often the annual peak, caused when a basin's winter snowpack melts in spring or early summer.
Snowmelt runoff
Snowmelt runoff is the portion of melting snow that flows over the land surface into streams and rivers, supplying much of the springtime water in colder climates.
Snowmelt Runoff Model
The Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) is a degree-day-based, semi-distributed model that simulates and forecasts daily streamflow in mountain basins, developed by Jaroslav Martinec in 1975.
Snowmelt system
A snowmelt system is an installation that melts snow and ice from pavement such as driveways, sidewalks, and bridge decks using embedded pipes or electric heating.
Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also called a skimobile or motor sledge, is a land vehicle that travels over snow on a rubber track, steered by front-mounted skis.
Snowpack (software)
Snowpack was a frontend build tool for JavaScript development, created by Fred K. Schott, that served apps as individual ES Modules instead of bundling, an approach called unbundled development.