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Straight Satans Motorcycle Club
The Straight Satans Motorcycle Club was a Southern California "one-percenter" outlaw club based in Venice and Santa Monica. Its history includes contact with the Manson Family in the late 1960s.
Straight Time
Straight Time (1978) is a Ulu Grosbard crime drama starring Dustin Hoffman as paroled burglar Max Dembo, adapted from Edward Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce, with Bunker co-writing and acting.
Straight to Hell (地獄に落ちるはよ) (TV series)
Straight to Hell (地獄に堕ちるわよ, Jigoku ni Ochiru wa yo) is a 2026 Netflix Japanese biographical drama, 9 episodes, starring Erika Toda as fortune-teller Kazuko Hosoki, released April 27, 2026, directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto.
Straight women's preference for lesbian pornography
Straight women's preference for lesbian pornography: Pornhub data show women favor the Lesbian category; Avgar's 2025 Sexualities study names five reasons (pleasure focus, relatability, less degradation, authenticity, fantasy), while arousal research shows women lack category-specific genital response.
Straight-five engine
The straight-five engine, also called an inline-five or I5, is an internal combustion engine with five cylinders in a row, first built in series production by Lancia in 1938.
Straight-four engine
The straight-four engine, also called an inline-four or I4, is a piston engine with four cylinders in one line on a single crankshaft, one of the most common car engine layouts.
Straight-line depreciation
Straight-line depreciation is an accounting method that charges an asset's cost minus salvage value in equal annual amounts over its useful life, the most widely used method in financial reporting.
Straight-line winds
Straight-line winds are thunderstorm winds that blow without rotation, a term distinguishing them from tornado winds; usually produced by downbursts, they cause most thunderstorm wind damage.
Straight-six engine
The straight-six engine, also called an inline-six, is a piston engine with all six cylinders in a single row, known for its inherent smoothness and balance.
Straight-three engine
The straight-three engine, also called an inline-three or triple, is an internal combustion engine with three cylinders in a row along one crankshaft, firing at even 240-degree intervals.
Straight-twin engine
A straight-twin engine, also called a parallel-twin or inline-twin, is a two-cylinder piston engine with both cylinders in a single row, used chiefly in motorcycles.
Straightener
Straightener (ストレイテナー) is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in Tokyo in 1998 by Atsushi Horie and Shinpei Nakayama, a four-piece since 2008 with over ten studio albums.
Straightlining
Straightlining, also called response non-differentiation, is a survey response pattern where a respondent gives identical or nearly identical answers to every item on a rating grid.
Strain (biology)
Strain (biology): a lineage of microbes descended from a single pure-culture isolation, or a distinguishable genetic/phenotypic variant within a species; distinct from isolate and clone, defined by typing methods such as MLST and PFGE.
Strain (injury)
Strain (injury): an overstretched or torn muscle or tendon, also called a pulled muscle, distinct from a ligament sprain. Common in legs, feet, and back; treated with PRICE therapy; graded I–III or by MRI.
Strain (mechanics)
In mechanics, strain measures the deformation of a material body as relative changes in length and angle, excluding rigid motion; it is a symmetric second-rank tensor with six independent components.
Strain aging
Strain aging is a change in the mechanical behavior of a deformed metal that occurs when carbon and nitrogen atoms diffuse to dislocations and pin them, raising yield strength.
Strain elastography
Strain elastography is an ultrasound technique that images how tissue deforms under light compression, showing relative stiffness to help assess lesions in the breast and thyroid.
Strain engineering
Strain engineering deliberately applies elastic strain to crystals or thin films to change their properties; strained silicon became standard in 90, 65, and 45 nm CMOS logic.
Strain engineering of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide band gaps
Strain engineering of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide band gaps is the use of mechanical strain to tune the band gaps of atomically thin semiconductors like MoS2.
Strain feedback control
Strain feedback control is a method for flexible-link robots in which strain gauges on the link feed back to actuators, damping vibration and positioning the tip.
Strain gauge
A strain gauge is a sensor whose electrical resistance changes as it is stretched or compressed, used in load cells and stress analysis of aircraft and bridges.
Strain gradient theory
Strain gradient theory is a family of non-classical elasticity theories in which strain energy depends on strain gradients, explaining size-dependent behavior of micro- and nanostructures.
Strain imaging
Strain imaging is an ultrasound technique that measures how tissue deforms under light compression, displaying relative stiffness as a color map to distinguish benign from malignant lesions.
Strain index
The Strain Index is a job analysis method that predicts risk of hand, wrist, and forearm disorders from repetitive, forceful hand work, published by Moore and Garg in 1995.
Strain rate
Strain rate, also called rate of strain, is the rate at which a material deforms, defined as the time derivative of strain and measured in reciprocal seconds (s⁻¹).
Strain rate imaging
Strain rate imaging measures the speed of myocardial deformation (s^-1) by tissue Doppler or speckle-tracking echocardiography; distinguishes active contraction from tethering, standardized by ASE/EACVI, used for prognosis in heart disease.
Strain tensor
The strain tensor is a second-rank tensor of continuum mechanics that describes local deformation of a material body, with rigid-body motion removed; Augustin-Louis Cauchy set it out in 1822.
Strain theory (sociology)
Strain theory (sociology): criminological tradition from Merton's 1938 anomie theory to Agnew's 1992 general strain theory, explaining crime as a response to blocked goals, loss of valued stimuli, and negative stimuli.
Strain-mediated magnetoelectric control with PMN-PT
Strain-mediated magnetoelectric control with PMN-PT is a technique in which voltage-induced strain in the PMN-PT piezoelectric crystal alters an adjacent magnetic layer, enabling low-power spintronic devices.