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Standing Figure of Nefertiti
The Standing Figure of Nefertiti is a painted limestone statuette of Queen Nefertiti, dated 1351–1334 BC, excavated at Tell el-Amarna in 1912–1913 and held in Berlin.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Standing in the Shadows of Motown: 2002 Paul Justman documentary, from Allan Slutsky's 1989 Jamerson book, honoring Motown's Funk Brothers; Grammy-winning soundtrack, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, Detroit reunion concert film.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is Oasis's fourth studio album, released 28 February 2000 on their own Big Brother Recordings label, produced by Mark "Spike" Stent and Noel Gallagher, a UK number one selling 310,000 copies in its first week.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" is a metaphor for intellectual progress built on earlier thinkers, familiar from Isaac Newton's 1675 letter to Robert Hooke.
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story is a 2024 mockumentary, the fourth Trailer Park Boys film, directed by Charlie Lightening, written by and starring Mike Smith as Bubbles on a failed European tour with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters; it grossed $223,675 worldwide.
Standing Orders
Standing orders are written, pre-authorized medical instructions allowing nurses, pharmacists, and other non-physician staff to deliver tests, treatments, or vaccinations when patients meet defined criteria, without a physician order at the time of care.
Standing ovation
A standing ovation happens when audience members rise and applaud at the end of a performance or speech, the most visible form of audience praise.
Standing Position
Standing position: the upright, orthostatic human posture supported only by the feet (MeSH D000078783, 2019). Covers its anatomy, evolutionary origin, and health effects of prolonged occupational standing.
Standing Rock Agency
The Standing Rock Agency is the Bureau of Indian Affairs field office serving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, headquartered at Fort Yates, North Dakota, since 1873.
Standing Stones of Stenness
Standing Stones of Stenness: Neolithic henge and oval stone circle on Mainland Orkney, Scotland, dated about 3100–2900 BC, possibly Britain's earliest henge, with four surviving stones within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.
Standing wave
A standing wave, also called a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in place without traveling, formed when two identical waves moving in opposite directions interfere.
Standing wave ratio
Standing wave ratio (SWR), most commonly voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), measures impedance mismatch on a transmission line, running from 1 for a matched line to infinity.
Standoff (film)
Standoff (2016) is a Canadian-American thriller, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, and Ella Ballentine; a veteran with a one-shell shotgun protects a girl who photographed an assassin. Not the 1998 cult thriller or the 2016 teen comedy The Standoff.
Standortauswahlgesetz
The Standortauswahlgesetz (StandAG), the Repository Site Selection Act, is a German federal law requiring a science-based search for a nuclear waste repository, begun in 2013.
Standpoint theory
Standpoint theory is a family of epistemological positions that emerged in the 1970s. It claims that marginalized perspectives are epistemically advantaged and that research should begin with their lives.
Standpunte
Standpunte, an Afrikaans literary journal founded in Cape Town in December 1945 by N.P. van Wyk Louw, W.E.G. Louw, and H.A. Mulder, remained the leading Afrikaans intellectual periodical until 1986.
Standup paddleboarding
Standup paddleboarding (SUP, Hoe he'e nalu) is a Hawaiian-origin water sport of standing on a surfboard-like board and paddling; practiced for racing, touring, yoga, and fishing, with documented fitness benefits and drowning as its main fatal risk.
Stane Street
Stane Street: 91 km (57 mi) Roman road from Londinium (London Bridge) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), built in straight limbs from c. AD 43-70, followed today by the A3, A24, A29, and A285, with scheduled surviving sections in Surrey and Sussex.
Stanegate
Stanegate: Roman road from Corbridge to Carlisle south of Hadrian's Wall; with its forts, fortlets, and signal towers it formed the Trajanic frontier of Roman Britain c. 100 to AD 122.
Stanene
Stanene is a two-dimensional monolayer of tin atoms in a buckled honeycomb lattice, the tin analog of graphene, predicted to be a topological insulator with a quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature.
Stanfield Organization
Fictional West Baltimore drug organization in The Wire, led by Marlo Stanfield with Chris Partlow and Monk Metcalf; it supplanted the Barksdale Organization in 2004 and dissolved by 2008.
Stanford Alpaca
Stanford Alpaca is a 7-billion-parameter instruction-following language model released by Stanford researchers on March 13, 2023, a fine-tune of Meta's LLaMA 7B reproduced for under $600.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, known as SAIL, is Stanford University's AI research lab, founded in 1963 by John McCarthy and known for DENDRAL, the Stanford Cart, and robotics.
Stanford Bio-X
Stanford Bio-X is Stanford University's interdisciplinary biosciences institute, founded in 1998 by James Spudich and colleagues, headquartered in the James H. Clark Center since 2003 and linking over 1,300 faculty across Stanford's schools.
Stanford Caldwell Hooper
Stanford Caldwell Hooper (1884–1955) was a United States Navy rear admiral known as the "Father of Navy Radio" who headed the Navy's Radio Division and helped establish RCA.
Stanford Cardinal
The Stanford Cardinal, formerly the Stanford Indians, are the athletic teams of Stanford University in Stanford, California, best known for the Big Game football rivalry with UC Berkeley.
Stanford Cardinal football
Stanford Cardinal football: Stanford University's NCAA Division I FBS team, now in the ACC (joined 2024). Two claimed national titles (1926, 1940), 15 conference championships, home at Stanford Stadium, annual Big Game rivalry with California.
Stanford E. Woosley
Stanford E. Woosley is an American theoretical astrophysicist, emeritus professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts and supernova nucleosynthesis calculations, winning the 2026 Shaw and Gruber prizes.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), also called Stanford Encyclopedia: free, peer-reviewed, dynamically updated online philosophy encyclopedia founded 1995 at Stanford's CSLI, with nearly 1,800 expert-authored, refereed entries under an open-access non-commercial license.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the business school of Stanford University in California, founded in 1925 and known for its highly selective MBA program.