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Station Eleven
Station Eleven (2014) is Emily St. John Mandel's fourth novel, a literary post-apocalyptic story set 20 years after a flu kills 99% of humanity; Traveling Symphony, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, HBO adaptation.
Station Eleven (miniseries)
Station Eleven is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic drama miniseries on HBO Max, adapted by Patrick Somerville from Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel and starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel.
Station identification
Station identification: the hourly call sign and community-of-license announcement required of licensed broadcasters under FCC rule 47 CFR 73.1201, with digital TV multicast, TSID/BSID, DAB, LPTV, and ITU Article 19 identification rules.
Station Island
Station Island is a 1984 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, named after the Lough Derg pilgrimage site and centered on a Dante-inspired dream-vision of ghosts.
Station model
A station model, also called a surface-plotting model, is a standardized arrangement of weather symbols plotted around a circle on a weather map, in wide use since the 1920s.
Station post insulator
A station post insulator is a rigid insulator used in high-voltage substations to support bus bars, conductors, and disconnect switches, made in porcelain, composite, and toughened glass.
Station service transformer
A station service transformer (SST), also called a station auxiliary transformer, supplies a power plant's own auxiliary loads from the high-voltage transmission network, independent of generator status.
Station to Station
Station to Station: David Bowie's tenth studio album, released January 23, 1976 on RCA, produced with Harry Maslin, introducing the Thin White Duke, blending soul and Kraftwerk-influenced art rock, peaking at No. 3 in the US.
Station wagon
A station wagon, also called an estate car, is a passenger car body style with a roof extending over a shared passenger and cargo compartment.
Station West
Station West is a 1948 RKO Western film noir directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Dick Powell, Jane Greer, and Agnes Moorehead, adapted from Luke Short's novel about an undercover Army agent investigating gold-shipment thefts.
Station-keeping
Station-keeping is the maintenance of a satellite's assigned orbital position against natural perturbations: geostationary satellites burn propellant to stay within a control box of about ±0.1° in longitude and inclination.
Station–Gare des Mines
La Station – Gare des Mines is a nonprofit club and arts space in Paris's 18th arrondissement, opened in 2016 in a former coal station and run by Collectif MU.
Stationary beam radiation therapy
Stationary beam radiation therapy is an external beam radiotherapy technique in which the machine delivers radiation from fixed beam positions without rotating, used for palliative, superficial, and total body treatments.
Stationary bicycle
Stationary bicycle (exercise bike, spin bike): an indoor cycling machine using friction, magnetic, hydraulic, or air resistance. Covers flywheel mechanics, wattage accuracy, calorie burn, bike types, health evidence, and 2025 connected-fitness market changes.
Stationary distribution (Markov chain)
A stationary distribution of a Markov chain is a probability distribution over states that the transition rule leaves unchanged, the equilibrium the chain settles toward in the long run.
Stationary front
A stationary front, also called a quasi-stationary front, is a boundary between warm and cold air masses moving slowly or not at all, often bringing prolonged rain and flooding.
Stationary phase approximation
The stationary phase approximation is an asymptotic method for evaluating integrals of rapidly oscillating functions, where oscillations cancel except near points where the phase's derivative vanishes, such as gravitational-wave modeling.
Stationary point
A stationary point of a differentiable function, also called a critical point, is a point where the derivative is zero and the tangent is horizontal.
Stationary process
A stationary process, also called a stationary stochastic process, is a stochastic process whose joint distributions are unchanged by shifts in time, with strict and weak forms distinguished.
Stationary set
A stationary set is a subset of a limit ordinal that meets every closed unbounded (club) subset of that ordinal, the standard notion of largeness in set theory.
Stationary spacetime
A stationary spacetime is a spacetime in general relativity that looks the same at every time, admitting a timelike Killing vector field; rotating black holes are stationary but not static.
Stationary wavelet transform
The stationary wavelet transform (SWT), also called the undecimated wavelet transform, is a variant of the discrete wavelet transform that omits downsampling, restoring translation invariance and improving denoising.
Stationery
Stationery is the collective term for writing and office materials such as paper, pens, and envelopes; in a narrower sense it means special paper for writing letters.
Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Way of the Cross or Via Crucis, is a Christian devotion of fourteen stations depicting Christ's Passion.
Statiq
Statiq is an Indian electric vehicle charging company founded by Akshit Bansal and Raghav Arora in 2019, operating a public charging network backed by Y Combinator and Shell.
Statism
Statism (French étatisme) is the doctrine of state supremacy and state intervention in economic, social, and personal affairs, contrasted with liberalism and anarchism, spanning Hobbes, Hegel, Bakunin's critique, and the developmental state.
Statism and Anarchy
Statism and Anarchy (Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia) is an 1873 book by the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, predicting that a dictatorship of the proletariat would become dictatorship over the proletariat.
Statistic
A statistic, also known as a sample statistic, is a number computed from a sample, such as the sample mean, used to describe or draw conclusions about a population.
Statistica
Statistica is a commercial statistics, data mining, and analytics software package developed by StatSoft of Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning in the mid-1980s and now sold as Spotfire Statistica under TIBCO.
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) was a research institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, run by Duke, NCSU, and UNC from 2002.