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Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship: ethical conduct in sport, meaning fair play, respect for rules, officials, and opponents, and winning or losing graciously; a Victorian gentleman-amateur ideal, distinct from fair play, now measured multidimensionally in sport psychology.
Sportsnet
Sportsnet is Rogers' Canadian sports media brand, launched in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. It holds Canadian NHL national rights ($11 billion deal through 2037-38), Blue Jays broadcasts, and the Sportsnet+ streaming service.
Sportswashing
Sportswashing: states or firms using sports investments, club purchases, and event hosting to repair reputations. Term coined 2015 (Baku European Games); Saudi PIF cases, Newcastle United, LIV Golf, 2034 World Cup.
Sportswear
Sportswear: clothing engineered for sports and exercise using specialized fibres, knit structures, and finishes for moisture and heat management; also covers athleisure. Key facts: polyester dominance, USD 500 billion market by 2030, DIN SPEC 4868 compression standard.
SporTV
SporTV (sportv) is Grupo Globo's Brazilian pay-TV sports channel, launched as Top Sport in November 1991 and renamed SporTV in the mid-1990s. It leads Brazilian pay-TV sports audiences, runs channels SporTV through SporTV 5 plus 4K, and carries Brasileirão, Copa do Brasil and national team football.
Sporus
Sporus (Σπόρος) was a young man whom Nero castrated, dressed as an empress, and publicly married in Greece around 67; he killed himself in 69 rather than obey Vitellius.
Spot (robot)
Spot is a four-legged quadruped robot made by Boston Dynamics, unveiled as SpotMini in 2016 and put on sale in 2019 for industrial inspection and hazardous-environment work.
SPOT (satellites)
SPOT (Satellites Pour l'Observation de la Terre) is a family of French civil Earth-observation satellites developed by CNES and operated from 1986 for mapping and environmental monitoring.
Spot 14 family
Spot 14 family: vertebrate nuclear proteins Spot 14 (S14, THRSP) and paralog MIG12 (Spot14-R) that regulate de novo fatty acid synthesis; thyroid hormone- and carbohydrate-inducible, dimeric, amplified at 11q13.5 in breast cancer.
Spot de Damencourt
Spot de Damencourt, also called Le Spot, is Guadeloupe's best-known surf break, a powerful reef break at Le Moule on Grande-Terre's Atlantic coast that hosts national and international competitions.
Spot de Surf Cantinho da Bahia
Spot de Surf Cantinho da Bahia, a sand-bottom A-frame beach break on Ilha do Baleal, Peniche, Portugal, inside the Peniche/Santa Cruz marine protected area; year-round NW-swell surf, beginner to advanced, 2-8 ft waves.
Spot de Surf do Molhe Leste
Molhe Leste (Spot de Surf do Molhe Leste) is a surf spot beside the eastern breakwater of Peniche's fishing harbour, Portugal, just north of Supertubos: a right-hand beach break, sheltered from north wind, small-day beginner to big-day advanced barrels.
Spot de Surf Supertubos
Supertubos (Praia de Medão), Peniche, Portugal: powerful hollow sandbar beach break nicknamed the European Pipeline; WSL Championship Tour venue since 2009, advanced surfers only, best in autumn.
Spot de Surf: Baie Maxime
Spot de Surf: Baie Maxime, a sheltered A-frame beach break south of Mahambo, Madagascar, used by the Summer Session surf school; best January to March, E swell, W offshore wind, 4x4 access.
Spot rate
The spot rate is the market price quoted now for near-term settlement, most precisely in foreign exchange and as the yield on a zero-coupon bond in fixed income.
Spot scanning proton therapy
Spot scanning proton therapy is a radiation technique in which a magnetically steered proton pencil beam deposits individually weighted spots, building a 3D dose layer by layer.
Spot Surf
Spot Surf: name shared by independent surf businesses, chiefly Spot Surf School (Doniños, Ferrol, Spain, founded 2008, FES-certified), plus a Zumaia shop-school, a Taghazout camp, a Samara wakesurf club, and a Portuguese beach break.
Spot test (lichen)
Lichen spot test: field chemical identification method applying K (10% KOH), C (bleach), KC, or PD reagents to a thallus and reading color changes; originated with William Nylander's 1865-1866 papers; TLC confirms doubtful results.
Spot Trading LLC
Spot Trading LLC was a Chicago proprietary trading firm and equity options market maker founded by Rob Merrilees in 1999 and shut down in 2018.
Spot welding
Spot welding, or resistance spot welding, joins overlapping metal sheets by passing high current between water-cooled copper electrodes, melting a small nugget that forms the joint.
Spot-bellied eagle-owl
Spot-bellied eagle-owl (Bubo nipalensis, Ketupa nipalensis), also called forest eagle-owl: a large 51–63 cm Asian forest owl from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia, taking jackals to peafowl, one-egg clutches, IUCN Least Concern but Endangered in Nepal.
Spot1
Spot1 (Spot 1) names a surf school and beach bar at Le Gorette, Cecina Mare, Tuscany, founded 1994; also a Brampton music hall and catering firm, a Turek vehicle station, a Lagos apartment, a DARPA robot, and the SPOT 1 satellite.
Spotawheel
Spotawheel is a Greek online used-car retail and subscription platform founded in Athens in 2016, selling inspected cars with a five-year warranty in Greece, Poland, and Romania.
SpotBugs
SpotBugs, the successor of FindBugs, is a free, open-source tool that finds bugs in Java programs by scanning compiled bytecode for more than 400 bug patterns.
SpotDraft
SpotDraft is an India-founded legaltech company that sells an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform to in-house legal teams, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bengaluru with a major New York office.
Spotify
Spotify, also known as Spotify AB, is a Swedish audio streaming service founded in Stockholm in 2006, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks through free and paid Premium tiers.
Spotify India
Spotify India is the Indian operation of the Swedish music-streaming platform Spotify, launched in February 2019 and turned profitable in FY25 with Rs 5.14 billion (Rs 514 crore) in revenue.
Spotify Wrapped
Spotify Wrapped is an annual year-in-review campaign from Spotify, launched in December 2015 as "Year in Music," that repackages each user's listening data into personalized, shareable stories.
Spotlight (Apple)
Spotlight is Apple's system-wide search technology for macOS and iOS, indexing file contents and metadata; announced in 2004, it shipped with Mac OS X Tiger in April 2005.
Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.