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Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons
The Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP), or Poisons Standard, is Australia's national instrument under section 52D of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 classifying medicines and poisons into ten Schedules, from Pharmacy Medicine to prohibited substances, with decisions given effect by state and territory law.
Standard form contract
Standard form contract (also contract of adhesion, boilerplate, AGB): pre-written take-it-or-leave-it terms dominating business and consumer contracting; enforced via notice and opportunity to read, regulated by unfair-terms laws in the EU and Australia.
Standard form of a von Neumann algebra
The standard form of a von Neumann algebra is a canonical Hilbert-space representation with a self-dual cone, proved to exist and be unique by Haagerup in 1975.
Standard General
Standard General L.P. is a New York-based, SEC-registered investment adviser founded in 2007 by Soo Kim that pursues event-driven strategies, targeting control positions in public companies.
Standard Generalized Markup Language
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is an ISO standard, ISO 8879:1986, defining document structure through user-defined markup; it is the metalanguage from which HTML and XML are derived.
Standard German
Standard German (Hochdeutsch) is the codified supraregional variety of German, about 96 million speakers, rooted in East Central German and Luther's Bible, pluricentric with German, Austrian, and Swiss national standards.
Standard German phonology
Standard German phonology, the sound system and standard pronunciation of Hochdeutsch: roughly 17-19 obstruent plus five sonorant phonemes, final obstruent devoicing, and national German, Austrian, and Swiss pronunciation varieties.
Standard gravitational parameter
The standard gravitational parameter, or gravitational parameter, is the product μ = GM of the gravitational constant and an astronomical body's mass, the quantity that directly governs orbital motion.
Standard gravity
Standard gravity is the conventional value of gravitational acceleration on Earth, defined exactly as 9.80665 m/s², adopted internationally in 1901 to define units of force.
Standard hydrogen electrode
The standard hydrogen electrode (SHE), or normal hydrogen electrode, is a platinum electrode saturated with hydrogen gas and assigned zero potential, the universal reference for all standard electrode potentials.
Standard Industrial Classification
The Standard Industrial Classification, known as SIC codes, is a US system of four-digit industry codes developed in the 1930s, largely replaced by NAICS in 1997.
Standard instrument departure
A standard instrument departure (SID) is a preplanned IFR departure route, published in graphic form, linking a runway with the en route structure; it requires ATC clearance.
Standard Insurance Company
Standard Insurance Company, marketed as The Standard, is a Portland, Oregon-based insurer selling group disability, group life, and retirement benefits, owned by Japan's Meiji Yasuda since 2016.
Standard language
A standard language, also called a standard dialect or standardized language, is the variety treated as the norm for writing, education, media, and formal public life.
Standard Liège
Standard Liège, known as Royal Standard de Liège, is a Belgian professional football club founded in Liège in 1898 that has won 10 Belgian championships and 8 Belgian Cups.
Standard linear solid model
The standard linear solid model, also called the Zener model, is a three-element viscoelastic model introduced by Clarence Zener in 1948 to describe anelastic behavior in metals.
Standard Method of Measurement
The Standard Method of Measurement (SMM) is a British set of rules for measuring building work in bills of quantities, first issued in 1922 by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Standard Missile
The Standard Missile is a family of ship-launched guided missiles that serves as the United States Navy's primary air-defense weapon, fielded aboard Aegis cruisers and destroyers since the late 1960s.
Standard ML
Standard ML (SML) is a strictly evaluated functional programming language with type inference and a formal specification, The Definition of Standard ML, first published in 1990.
Standard Model
The Standard Model, also called the standard model of particle physics, is the quantum field theory describing elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces, excluding gravity.
Standard Model effective field theory
Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) extends the Standard Model Lagrangian with higher-dimensional, gauge-invariant operators that capture how undiscovered heavy particles would deform its predictions.
Standard molar entropy
Standard molar entropy, symbol S°, is the entropy of one mole of a substance in its standard state, in J/(mol·K), tabulated at 298.15 K; unlike enthalpy, values are absolute entropies.
Standard motorcycle
A standard motorcycle, often called a naked bike or roadster, is a road motorcycle with an upright riding position, waist-height handlebars, and little or no fairing.
Standard normal table
The standard normal table, commonly called the z-table, lists areas under the standard normal curve for z-scores, letting one table serve normal distributions of any mean and standard deviation.
Standard normal variate
Standard normal variate (SNV) is a row-wise normalization method for spectroscopic data, devised by Barnes, Dhanoa, and Lister in 1989 to correct multiplicative scatter in near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectra.
Standard Nuclear, Inc.
Standard Nuclear, Inc. is an Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based manufacturer of TRISO advanced nuclear fuel, founded in 2024 and listed on the NYSE under STDN since July 2026.
Standard Occupational Classification
The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is the United States federal system for classifying workers into occupational categories, directed by the Office of Management and Budget since the 1970s.
Standard of care
Standard of care: the legal benchmark of reasonable conduct in negligence, from the objective reasonable person test (Vaughan v Menlove, 1837) to professional medical standards (Bolam, Montgomery) and the ALI's 2024 Restatement revision.
Standard of deferred payment
The standard of deferred payment is the thing of value in which a debt is expressed and later discharged, usually money, and is listed as a fourth function of money.
Standard of living
Standard of living, or living standards, is the material well-being a household derives from its income, usually measured as disposable income divided by consumption units reflecting household needs.