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Stopwatch
A stopwatch is a handheld or built-in timing device started and stopped at will to measure elapsed time, used in sport and calibrated against traceable standards.
Stoquastic Hamiltonians
A stoquastic Hamiltonian is a quantum Hamiltonian whose off-diagonal matrix elements are all real and non-positive, making it free of the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo.
Stora Enso
Stora Enso is a Finnish-Swedish renewable materials company formed by the merger of Enso Oyj and STORA, and the global leader in liquid packaging board.
Storage area network
A storage area network (SAN) is a specialized high-speed network that gives servers block-level access to storage that appears locally attached, commonly built on Fibre Channel, Ethernet, or InfiniBand fabrics.
Storage cell
Storage cell (Cell Ontology CL:0000629): a cell specialized to store substances later released for a purpose; child of stuff accumulating cell. Also names for a one-object AFS computing location, an accelerator gas-target cell, and an oil compartment in gravity base structures.
Storage Hunters
Storage Hunters is a truTV American reality series (2011-2013, four seasons) in which husband-and-wife bidders Brandon and Lori Bernier compete at auctions for abandoned self-storage unit contents, mainly in California; it spawned Storage Hunters UK.
Storage modulus
The storage modulus is the real part of a viscoelastic material's complex modulus: the in-phase, energy-storing elastic response, measured in pascals by dynamic mechanical analysis.
Storage of wine
Storage of wine (wine cellaring): keeping bottled wine at about 12–14°C with stable temperature, 60–75% humidity for corks, darkness, and side-lying bottle position, so wines preserve or age in bottle rather than spoil.
Storage ring
A storage ring is a circular particle accelerator that keeps charged particles circulating at a fixed energy for hours, used in colliders and light sources.
Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is a software-defined storage feature of Microsoft Windows that pools multiple physical drives and provisions virtual disks with simple, mirror, or parity resiliency.
Storage tube
A storage tube is a cathode ray tube that stores information as electric charge, used as early computer memory or to hold images without refreshing.
Storage Wars
Storage Wars is an A&E reality series, premiering December 2010, following buyers such as Dave Hester and Darrell Sheets bidding on repossessed self-storage lockers; notable for high ratings, spin-offs, and the Dave Hester staging lawsuit.
StorageTek
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation) was an American data storage company in Louisville, Colorado, known for IBM-compatible tape drives, founded in 1969 and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2005.
Storativity
Storativity, also called the storage coefficient, is a dimensionless measure of the water volume an aquifer releases or absorbs per unit surface area per unit change in hydraulic head.
Storavan
Storavan (Buovđđahávva) is a large regulated lake, about 185 km², in Lapland, Norrbotten, Sweden, third largest in the Skellefteälven system after Uddjaure and Hornavan; with Uddjaur it forms a 780 million m³ hydropower reservoir regulated since the 1930s, with Bergnäs power station at its dam.
Store and forward
Store and forward is a message-switching technique in which data is held in its entirety at an intermediate node and forwarded when a link becomes available, with no direct end-to-end path.
Store buffer
A store buffer is a per-core processor queue that holds stores before they reach the cache, allowing the core to keep executing; it permits x86 store-load reordering.
Store Koldewey
Store Koldewey ("Big Koldewey"), also Koldewey Island, is an uninhabited 90 km-long island off northeastern Greenland, largest of the Koldewey Islands, separating Dove Bugt from the Greenland Sea; named after Karl Koldewey of the 1869–70 German expedition.
Store Kongshøj
Store Kongshøj, a Danish Bronze Age burial mound in Vamdrup parish, southern Jutland; Early Bronze Age oak-coffin barrow (c. 1385 BC) excavated 1862, yielding a bronze dagger; also a Pleiades gazetteer ancient place.
Store Mosse National Park
Store Mosse National Park: Sweden's largest active raised bog, 7,682 ha in Småland 15 km NE of Värnamo, national park since 1982, Ramsar site 20, Natura 2000 SE0310020, with Lake Kävsjön birdlife and 2023–2025 restoration.
Store of value
A store of value is an asset that retains purchasing power over time, one of the canonical functions of money alongside the medium of exchange and unit of account.
Store-Dal
Store-Dal (Store-Dal Gravfelt) is a large Iron Age barrow cemetery at Skjeberg, Østfold, eastern Norway, near Hunn; about 184 mounds, Roman period inhumation mound 6 with a gold berlock, and a Viking Age kerbstone mound 145 imitating it.
Storebox
Storebox is a Vienna-based self-storage and micro-logistics company, founded in 2016, that converts unused ground-floor properties into smart storage cabins and parcel pick-up points across Europe.
Stored Communications Act
The Stored Communications Act (SCA), Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is a 1986 US federal statute governing access to stored communications and subscriber records held by service providers.
Stored procedure
A stored procedure is a subroutine written in a procedural extension of SQL and stored inside a database server, executed there on request instead of ad hoc client statements.
Stored program control
Stored program control (SPC) is the telephone switching architecture in which a processor executes a program in memory to manage call setup, routing, billing, and features.
Stored-food and grain mite dermatitis
Stored-food and grain mite dermatitis is skin inflammation caused by mites infesting grain, flour, and hay, producing occupational rashes such as grocer's itch, copra itch, and straw itch.
Stored-product mite control
Stored-product mite control is the detection and management of mite pests, chiefly the flour mite and mold mite, in stored grain, flour, cheese, dried fruit, and pet food.
StoreDot
StoreDot is an Israeli battery-technology company founded in 2012 in Herzliya by Doron Myersdorf that develops extreme-fast-charging EV cells targeting 100 miles of range in five minutes of charging.
Storefront (architecture)
A storefront is the ground-floor, non-load-bearing glazed frontage of a commercial building, typically an aluminum system lighter than curtain wall, used for retail and entrances.