All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Spizzichino
Spizzichino, also Tressette in Due or Tressette a Pizzico, is the two-player adaptation of the Italian 40-card trick-taking game Tressette, played in a packet version (a Pizzichino) or a stock version (a Metà Mazzo) with 11 points per deal and buongioco honours declarations.
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (โหดซัดโหด)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (杀破狼2, Saat po long 2) is a 2015 Hong Kong action thriller by Soi Cheang starring Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, and Zhang Jin, a name-only sequel to SPL about a Thai prison fronting an organ-trafficking ring.
SPL: Sha Po Lang (杀破狼)
SPL: Sha Po Lang (殺破狼, Kill Zone) is a 2005 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Wu Jing; Yen's realistic action direction won a Hong Kong Film Award and spawned two sequels.
Splachnaceae
Splachnaceae, the dung moss family (Splachnum, Tetraplodon, Tayloria), is a moss family of about 73 species, unique among land plants for fly-dispersed sticky spores and growth on dung and carrion.
SPLADE
SPLADE, short for Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model, is a family of neural retrieval models from NAVER Labs Europe that expands and weights bag-of-words representations for search.
Splanchnic arteriovenous fistula
Splanchnic arteriovenous fistula (arterioportal fistula, ICD-11 DB98.73) is an abnormal artery-to-portal-vein connection in the abdominal circulation, usually traumatic or iatrogenic, causing non-cirrhotic portal hypertension and treated mainly by endovascular embolization.
Splash (film)
Splash (1984) is a Ron Howard romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah about a man in love with a mermaid; it was the first Touchstone film, Disney's mature-themes label, released March 9, 1984.
Splash Brothers
Splash Brothers: Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors backcourt (2011-2024), four NBA titles, record 678 combined threes in 2015-16; nickname coined via #SplashBrothers tweet in December 2012.
Splash cymbal
Splash cymbal: a small, thin drum-kit effect cymbal, 6 to 12 inches typical, giving fast attack and short decay for quick accents; developed with Gene Krupa and Avedis Zildjian in the 1930s swing era.
Splash House 2026
Splash House 2026 was the 13th edition of Splash House, a 21-and-over poolside electronic music festival at Palm Springs, California hotel resorts, held across two August weekends.
Splash Mountain
Splash Mountain was a Disney log-flume ride themed to Song of the South, opening at Disneyland in 1989, Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland in 1992; the U.S. versions were rethemed as Tiana's Bayou Adventure, leaving Tokyo's as the only one.
Splash screen
A splash screen, also known as a welcome screen, is an initial screen displayed by software while it loads, typically showing a logo, version information, credits, or a copyright notice.
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 Love)
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE) is a 2015 MBC 54th-anniversary time-slip romance web drama in which math-fearing senior Jang Dan-bi lands in drought-era Joseon and tutors young King Lee Do; 10 Naver episodes, 2 TV parts, starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon.
Splashdown
Splashdown is the landing of a spacecraft on water at the end of a spaceflight, the standard recovery method for American crewed capsules since Mercury.
Splashed-ink landscape
Splashed-ink landscape (Chinese pomo, 潑墨; Japanese hatsuboku) is a painting made by spattering or pouring ink so its accidental shapes suggest mountains, clouds, and water, arising in Tang China.
Splat! (album)
Splat! is Deep Purple's 24th studio album, released July 3, 2026 on earMUSIC, produced by Bob Ezrin, second album with guitarist Simon McBride, a 13-track concept album by Ian Gillan on humanity's end as transformation.
Splatoon
Splatoon (スプラトゥーン) is Nintendo's third-person shooter series starring Inklings who fight with colored ink, launched on Wii U in May 2015, followed by Splatoon 2 (2017), Splatoon 3 (2022), and the spin-off Splatoon Raiders (2026).
Splatoon 2
Splatoon 2 is a third-person shooter developed and published by Nintendo for the Switch, released in 2017 and the sequel to the 2015 Wii U game Splatoon.
Splatoon 3
Splatoon 3 is Nintendo's 2022 third-person ink shooter for Switch, set in Splatsville in the Splatlands. Features Turf War, Salmon Run Next Wave, Return of the Mammalians story mode, Deep Cut, three-team Splatfests, Side Order DLC, 10.67 million first-year sales, Metacritic 83.
Splatoon 3: Side Order
Splatoon 3: Side Order is Wave 2 of the Splatoon 3 Expansion Pass, a single-player roguelite DLC released February 22, 2024, in which Agent 8 climbs the Spire of Order using Palettes and Color Chips.
Splatoon Raiders
Splatoon Raiders (スプラトゥーン レイダース) is Nintendo's first Splatoon spinoff, a single-player-focused PvE action shooter released July 23, 2026, exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2, starring a Mechanic raiding the Spirhalite Islands with Deep Cut against Salmonids.
Splatter film
Splatter film (gore film, splatter movie): a horror subgenre concentrating on explicit gore and graphic violence rather than suspense. Originated with Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast (1963); term coined by George Romero for Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス)
Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス) is Namco's 1988 horror beat 'em up arcade game starring masked Rick rescuing Jennifer; spawned Wanpaku Graffiti, sequels 2 and 3, cancelled Splatterworld, and a 2010 reboot.
Splay nematic phase
The splay nematic phase is a nematic liquid crystal phase with a periodically splay-modulated director, giving a polar, antiferroelectric state reported in RM734 in 2018.
Splay tree
A splay tree, also called a self-adjusting binary search tree, is a search tree that splays each accessed node to the root, giving amortized O(log n) operations.
Spleen
Spleen: largest secondary lymphoid organ in adult humans, in the left upper quadrant; filters blood, recycles iron, stores 25-30% of RBCs, and mounts immune responses; human spleen lacks a rodent-style marginal zone.
Spleen filtration of nanoparticles
Spleen filtration of nanoparticles is the process by which the spleen traps or destroys intravenously injected nanoparticles; particles above 200 nm are captured, so designs stay near 100 nm or exploit the filter for immunotherapy.
Spleen imaging
Spleen imaging uses ultrasound, CT, MRI, and nuclear scintigraphy to measure the spleen and assess enlargement or focal abnormality, with ultrasound the most validated first-line test.
Spleen stiffness measurement
Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) is a noninvasive elastography technique that measures spleen stiffness in kilopascals to assess portal hypertension, notably clinically significant portal hypertension, in chronic liver disease.
Spleen transplantation
Spleen transplantation (splenic autotransplantation) reimplants a patient's own splenic fragments, usually in the greater omentum, after splenectomy to regenerate splenic tissue and reduce overwhelming post-splenectomy infection risk; protection against OPSI remains unconfirmed.