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Sticker
A sticker is a piece of paper, plastic, or film with adhesive backing, stuck onto surfaces to carry pictures, messages, prices, or identification, from collectibles to industrial labels.
Sticker-spacer framework for associative polymers
The sticker-spacer framework, also called the stickers-and-spacers model, was introduced by Semenov and Rubinstein to describe associative polymers as stickers separated by spacers, predicting phase behavior and biomolecular liquid-liquid phase separation.
Sticking coefficient
The sticking coefficient is a dimensionless number in surface chemistry: the probability that a molecule striking a surface sticks to it rather than reflecting back into the gas phase.
Stickler syndrome
Stickler syndrome (hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy), a collagen connective tissue disorder causing high myopia, retinal detachment, cleft palate, hearing loss, and early arthritis; mostly autosomal dominant COL2A1.
Stickney Water Reclamation Plant
The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago, is widely considered the world's largest wastewater treatment plant, cleaning about 700 million gallons of wastewater daily since 1930.
Sticks (musician)
Sticks, also known as Sticky Steez, is the stage name of Junte Uiterwijk (born 1982 in Zwolle), a Dutch rapper best known as frontman of Opgezwolle and for a long solo career.
Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is an English children's rhyme, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me", first recorded in print in Liverpool in 1857 and used as a comeback against name-calling.
Sticky (Tyler, the Creator song)
Sticky (Tyler, the Creator song), also credited as STICKY..., is a 2024 CHROMAKOPIA track featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red, and Lil Wayne. Marching-band rap single that hit No. 10 on the Hot 100, No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and earned a 2026 Best Rap Song Grammy nomination.
Sticky & Sweet Tour
Sticky & Sweet Tour, Madonna's 2008–2009 world tour supporting Hard Candy; grossed $408 million, the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist; ran a 2009 extension from London across 22 markets, with a Buenos Aires-filmed DVD/CD released 2010.
Sticky and blunt ends
Sticky and blunt ends, also called cohesive and non-cohesive ends, are the two DNA terminus types made by restriction enzymes: staggered cuts leave 2-4 nt overhangs that anneal for efficient directional ligation, while flush blunt ends ligate 10-100x less efficiently but join universally.
Sticky bit
The sticky bit is a Unix permission bit that protects files in shared directories like /tmp: only the file's owner, the directory's owner, or root can delete them.
Sticky Fingaz
Sticky Fingaz (Kirk Jones, born 1973, Brooklyn) is an American rapper and actor, frontman of hardcore rap group Onyx, whose 1993 debut Bacdafucup and single "Slam" went platinum; solo albums include Black Trash (2000).
Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones studio album released 23 April 1971, first on Rolling Stones Records with the tongue logo; recorded 1969–1970 at Olympic, Trident, Muscle Shoals, and Stargroves; Andy Warhol zipper cover.
Sticky Fingers (band)
Sticky Fingers, Australian indie-reggae-rock band formed 2008 in Newtown, Sydney; members Dylan Frost, Paddy Cornwall, Seamus Coyle, Beaker Best, Freddy Crabs; albums Caress Your Soul to Lekkerboy; ARIA number one with Westway; distinct from the Rolling Stones album.
Sticky prices
Sticky prices are prices of goods, services, or wages that adjust slowly to changes in supply and demand, giving monetary shocks temporary real effects on output and employment.
Sticky toffee pudding
Sticky toffee pudding, also called sticky date pudding in Australia and New Zealand, is a British baked date sponge served warm with a butter, brown sugar, and cream butterscotch sauce, popularized by the Sharrow Bay Hotel in Cumbria in the 1970s with disputed origins.
Sticky Vicky
Sticky Vicky, stage name of Victoria María Aragüés Gadea (Vicky Leyton), was a Spanish cabaret performer whose vaginal magic show ran in Benidorm for over 35 years until her 2016 retirement; she died 29 November 2023.
Stiefel manifold
The Stiefel manifold is the space of all orthonormal k-frames, or ordered sets of mutually orthogonal unit vectors, in n-dimensional space, a compact manifold named after Eduard Stiefel.
Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), Swedish journalist and author of the Millennium trilogy starring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist; co-founder of Expo, died before publication, 100 million copies sold.
Stieglitz (Mercurian crater)
Stieglitz is a 100 km wide impact crater in Borealis Planitia on Mercury, IAU-named in 2012 for American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, a fresh complex crater with asymmetric magnetic anomalies tied to its oblique impact.
Stielhandgranate
The Stielhandgranate, nicknamed the potato masher, is a series of German stick hand grenades with an explosive head on a long wooden handle, devised in 1915 and used through both world wars.
Stielhandgranate 24
The Stielhandgranate 24, also called the Model 24 or "potato masher," was the standard stick grenade of the German Army in the Second World War.
Stieltjes transform
The Stieltjes transform of a measure μ on the real line is sμ(z) = ∫ μ(dx)/(x − z), an analytic function that encodes the measure.
Stientje van Veldhoven
Stientje van Veldhoven (born 1973) is a Dutch D66 politician, Minister of Climate and Green Growth since 2026 and previously a state secretary and environment minister.
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band formed in 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose debut album Inflammable Material (1979) was the first independently released album to chart in the UK.
Stiff Records
Stiff Records: British independent label founded in London in July 1976 by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera with a £400 loan; released Nick Lowe's "So It Goes" and the first UK punk single, the Damned's "New Rose"; now owned by Universal Music Group.
Stiff skin syndrome
Stiff skin syndrome (SSS), also called congenital fascial dystrophy, is a rare autosomal dominant FBN1-related fibrosing skin disorder with rock-hard skin, joint contractures, and hypertrichosis from infancy, distinct from stiff-person syndrome.
Stiff upper lip
Stiff upper lip: idiom for unemotional self-control, stereotypically British. American phrase first recorded 1811, adopted in Britain after the 1870s, heyday 1870 to 1965, tied to empire, public schools, and wartime stoicism, now fading.
Stiff Upper Lip (album)
Stiff Upper Lip is AC/DC's 2000 studio album, released 28 February 2000, produced by George Young with Mike Fraser in Vancouver; a bluesy return to roots that peaked at UK number 12 and went platinum.
STIFF-FLOP
STIFF-FLOP was a four-year European research project, running from 2012 to 2015, that developed an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm for minimally invasive surgery, coordinated by King's College London.