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Steyr-Daimler-Puch
Steyr-Daimler-Puch, also known as Steyr-Puch, was an Austrian industrial conglomerate formed in 1934 by merger, building cars, trucks, tractors, and tanks until its divisions were sold from 1987.
STFC Hartree Centre
The STFC Hartree Centre is a UK research center for high performance computing, data analytics, and AI, helping businesses and the public sector adopt these technologies since opening in 2013.
StG 44
The StG 44, also known as the MP 44 and MP 43, was a German assault rifle of the Second World War and the first mass-produced rifle of its type.
StG 45(M)
The StG 45(M), or Sturmgewehr 45, was a prototype assault rifle developed by Mauser for the Wehrmacht in 1945, using roller-delayed blowback and the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge.
Sthala Purana
A Sthala Purana, Tamil talapurāṇam, is a local legend or temple lore attached to a sacred place in India, explaining its shrine, deity, name, and rituals.
Sthanika
Sthanika (ಸ್ಥಾನಿಕ) was a local administrative and temple official in South India, attested in Kautilya's Arthasastra and prominent under the Vijayanagara Empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Sthaviravada
Sthaviravada was an early Buddhist school formed by elder monks after the first schism of the Buddhist sangha, producing lineages from which the Sarvastivada and Theravada later descended.
Sthayibhava
Sthayibhava (स्थायिभाव, "stable emotion") is the permanent, dominant emotion in Sanskrit dramaturgy and poetics that, awakened by appropriate dramatic or poetic means, is savored by spectators as rasa.
Sthiramati
Sthiramati (स्थिरमति) was an Indian Yogacara Buddhist scholar of the sixth century, traditionally based at Valabhi, best known for his extensive commentaries on Vasubandhu's treatises.
Sthree Hridayam
Sthree Hridayam (സ്ത്രീ ഹൃദയം, "Woman's Heart") is the title of several Malayalam works: a novel by S. Sreedevi, a book by poet Balamani Amma, and a 1960 film.
Sthulabhadra
Sthulabhadra (स्थूलभद्र) was a Jain acharya of Magadha who convened the council at Pataliputra around 300 BCE that recompiled the Jain canon after a famine.
Stibnite
Stibnite is an antimony sulfide mineral with the formula Sb₂S₃ and the predominant ore mineral of antimony, forming bladed orthorhombic crystals in hydrothermal deposits, often with gold.
Stibogluconic acid
Stibogluconic acid is the gluconic acid complex of pentavalent antimony underlying sodium stibogluconate (SSG, Pentostam), the 1945 antileishmanial injection drug; its structure remains oligomeric and incompletely defined.
STICH trial
STICH (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure), NHLBI-sponsored randomized trial of 2,112 patients testing CABG plus medical therapy versus medical therapy alone in ischemic left ventricular dysfunction; null at 5 years, survival benefit at 10 years (STICHES).
Sticherus
Sticherus (umbrella ferns) is a pantropical genus of about 89 species of forked Gleicheniaceae ferns with scaly buds, single-rowed sori, and monolete spores; genomic phylogeny showed paraphyly, leading to Sticheropsis segregation in 2024.
Sticherus tener
Sticherus tener, known as the Silky Fan-fern or Tasman Fan-fern, is a creeping fan-fern in the Gleicheniaceae family native to Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand's southern South Island.
Stichodactyla toxin
Stichodactyla toxins are peptide and protein venoms from carpet sea anemones such as Stichodactyla helianthus, haddoni, and gigantea, including ShK (dalazatide precursor), Sh I, and sticholysins.
Sticholonche
Sticholonche, sole genus of the order Taxopodida with one described species Sticholonche zanclea, is a marine rhizarian protist that rows using oar-like axopodia anchored on its nuclear envelope, once classified as radiolarian or heliozoan.
Stichopus
Stichopus (Brandt, 1835) is a genus of Stichopodidae sea cucumbers including S. horrens, S. herrmanni, S. chloronotus, and S. monotuberculatus, tropical commercial bêche-de-mer species with long-standing taxonomic confusion and active fisheries.
Stick (1985 film)
Stick is a 1985 American crime thriller directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, based on Elmore Leonard's novel, about an ex-convict in Miami seeking revenge after his friend is murdered during a drug-money delivery.
Stick (TV series)
Stick is an Apple TV+ sports comedy created by Jason Keller, starring Owen Wilson as washed-up golfer Pryce Cahill mentoring teen prodigy Santi (Peter Dager). Season 1 ran June 4 to July 23, 2025; season 2 premieres November 4, 2026 with Rhea Seehorn joining.
Stick Fight: The Game
Stick Fight: The Game is a 2017 physics-based 2-4 player fighting game by Landfall West, featuring procedural animation, 100 levels, a level editor, and console and mobile ports.
Stick figure
A stick figure, also called a matchstick figure, is a simple drawing of a person with a circle head and line body, arms, and legs, found from prehistoric rock art to internet animation.
Stick Figure
Stick Figure is an American reggae and dub project founded in 2006 by Scott Woodruff, who records everything himself and fronts a six-piece live band.
Stick It
Stick It (2006) is a teen gymnastics comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Bring It On writer Jessica Bendinger, starring Missy Peregrym as court-ordered gymnast Haley Graham and Jeff Bridges as coach Burt Vickerman; Metascore 53, Rotten Tomatoes 31%.
Stick vacuum
A stick vacuum is a lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner shaped like a single wand with the motor and dust bin in the hand grip, best for quick pickups on hard floors.
Stick-slip motion
Stick-slip motion is the alternating sticking and sudden sliding at a frictional interface, occurring in earthquake faults, granular materials, violin strings, and brakes, and exploited in piezoelectric actuators for precision positioning.
Stick-slip phenomenon
Stick-slip is a frictional sliding cycle in which contacting surfaces stick while force builds, then slip suddenly and repeat, driving earthquakes, bowed instruments, and brake noise.
Stickam
Stickam, a live-streaming video website operated by Advanced Video Communications of Los Angeles, let users broadcast from webcams and embed streams elsewhere from 2006 to 2013.
Stickball
Stickball names two games: an informal street baseball variant played with a broomstick and rubber Spaldeen ball, centered on New York City, and the full-contact Indigenous southeastern tribal sport, 'little brother of war,' related to lacrosse.