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Speak of the Devil (Ozzy Osbourne album)
Speak of the Devil (Talk of the Devil in the UK) is Ozzy Osbourne's 1982 double live album of Black Sabbath covers, recorded at The Ritz, New York, with Brad Gillis on guitar; RIAA Platinum, Billboard 200 peak 14.
Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory is Vladimir Nabokov's memoir of his childhood in Russia and years of exile in Europe, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and revised in 1966.
Speakeasy
Speakeasy: an establishment illegally selling alcohol, widespread during US Prohibition (1920–1933), successor to the blind pig and blind tiger; term from speaking quietly about illegal bars. Also, since 2000, legal hidden cocktail bars imitating them.
Speaker (politics)
Speaker (politics): the presiding officer of a legislative chamber, elected by and from members. Models range from the impartial UK House of Commons Speaker to the partisan US House Speaker, with continental assemblies using collective Bureau bodies for neutrality.
Speaker diarization
Speaker diarization is the artificial intelligence task of partitioning an audio or video recording into segments by speaker identity, answering who spoke when with anonymous labels such as Speaker A and Speaker B.
Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, sequel to Ender's Game and second Ender Quintet volume; Ender as the Xenocide Speakers for the dead among the piggies on Lusitania; won the 1986 Nebula and 1987 Hugo for Best Novel.
Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom): presiding officer of the elected Commons chamber, an MP elected by fellow MPs, since 4 November 2019 Sir Lindsay Hoyle (158th Speaker, MP for Chorley), who on election resigns party affiliation, keeps order, gives casting votes, chairs the House of Commons Commission, and differs from the partisan US Speaker.
Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Speaker of the Lok Sabha: presiding officer of India's House of the People under Article 93, first held by G.V. Mavalankar (1952), currently Om Birla; certifies money bills and decides anti-defection cases.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Speaker of the US House of Representatives: presiding officer, House administrative head, and majority party leader, second in line to the presidency; elected by the full House, currently Mike Johnson.
Speaker separation
Speaker separation is a signal processing and machine learning method that extracts one speech signal per speaker from an audio mixture of two or more overlapping voices.
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is OutKast's 2003 double album pairing Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and André 3000's The Love Below; it sold 11.4 million copies, topped the Billboard 200 for seven weeks, and became the second hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner.
Speakers' Corner
Speakers' Corner is the open-air public speaking site at the north-east edge of London's Hyde Park near Marble Arch, established by the 1872 Parks Regulation Act after the 1866–1867 Reform League protests; anyone may speak on any lawful subject, traditionally on Sundays.
Speaking clock
The speaking clock, also known as Froken ur, is a telephone service that announces the correct time to callers, first automated in Paris in 1933, with Britain's TIM service following in 1936.
Speaking in tongues
Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is a religious practice of producing speech-like utterances attributed to the Holy Spirit, best known in Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.
Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)
Speaking in Tongues (1983, Sire) is Talking Heads' fifth studio album and first self-produced record, a funk-driven commercial breakthrough yielding "Burning Down the House," the band's only Top 10 single, and closing with "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."
Spear
A spear is a weapon consisting of a long shaft with a pointed head of stone, bone, or metal, used for thrusting or throwing, and among the oldest human weapons.
SPEAR 3
SPEAR 3 (Selected Precision Effects At Range) is a British miniature cruise missile developed by MBDA for the UK's F-35B and Typhoon aircraft, with a range exceeding 100 km.
Spear REIT Limited
Spear REIT Limited is a South African real estate investment trust founded in 2011 and listed on the JSE in 2016, investing predominantly in Western Cape property, with assets of about R8.4 billion by 2026.
Spear-thrower
The spear-thrower, also called the atlatl, is a handheld rod, strap, or board that uses leverage to launch a spear or dart faster and farther than the arm alone.
Spearfish torpedo
The Spearfish torpedo is a British 533 mm heavyweight torpedo launched from Royal Navy submarines since 1994, built to sink fast, deep-diving submarines and surface warships.
Spearfish, SD Micro Area
Spearfish, SD Micro Area (code 43940): a micropolitan statistical area covering Lawrence County, South Dakota, principal city Spearfish; part of the Rapid City-Spearfish CSA; 25,768 residents in 2020.
Spearhead Oil Pipeline
The Spearhead Oil Pipeline, also called Enbridge Line 55, is a 583-mile Enbridge crude oil pipeline from Flanagan, Illinois, to Cushing, Oklahoma, in reversed service since 2006.
Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport
The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, formerly the Joint High Speed Vessel, is a class of United States Navy catamarans carrying troops and cargo at over 35 knots within a theater.
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, also called Spearman's rho, is a nonparametric statistic measuring how well two variables follow a monotonic relationship, ranging from −1 to +1. Charles Spearman introduced it in 1904.
Spearmint
Spearmint (Mentha spicata), also called garden mint, is a strongly aromatic perennial herb grown worldwide as a culinary herb and source of carvone-rich essential oil.
Spearthrower Owl
Spearthrower Owl, also known as Jatz'om Kuy, is the modern nickname for a Teotihuacan ruler, reigning from 374 to 439 CE, whose son became king of Tikal.
SPEC CPU
SPEC CPU is a family of computer benchmark suites from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation that measures compute-intensive performance by compiling and running real application source code.
Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 third-person military shooter by Yager Development and 2K Games set in ruined Dubai, a Heart of Darkness-inspired antiwar critique of the shooter genre, delisted permanently in January 2024.
Spec script
Spec script: a non-commissioned screenplay written unpaid on the writer's own initiative (also called speculative screenplay) to be sold, optioned, or used as a writing sample; distinct from assignments, pitches, and shooting scripts.
SPEC3/Stum
SPEC3/Stum (InterPro IPR026673) is a family of multi-pass membrane proteins including sea urchin SPEC3, a ciliogenesis protein, and Drosophila Stum (stumble), required for proprioceptive joint-angle mechanosensing, with conserved orthologs from nematodes to humans.