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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy, also called stratigraphic geology, is the branch of geology that organizes the rock layers of the Earth's crust into mappable units, using principles like superposition to interpret geologic history.
Stratio (company)
Stratio is a Portuguese predictive-maintenance technology company founded in 2017 in Coimbra and headquartered in Lisbon, serving bus and truck fleet operators like Arriva and Ford Trucks.
Stratiomyidae
Stratiomyidae (soldier flies) is a cosmopolitan family of lower Brachycera flies with 375 genera and over 2,800 species in 12 subfamilies; larvae are aquatic or decomposer scavengers, and Hermetia illucens is farmed for waste bioconversion.
Stratiotes aloides
Stratiotes aloides, water soldier or water aloe, is the sole living species of the monotypic genus Stratiotes (Hydrocharitaceae), a dioecious Eurasian aquatic perennial with spiny rosette leaves that floats in summer and sinks in winter, invasive in Ontario.
Stratis Myrivilis
Stratis Myrivilis was the pseudonym of Evstratios Stamatopoulos, a Greek novelist born on Lesbos in 1892, best known for the anti-war novel Life in the Tomb.
Strato I
Strato I (Στράτων) was an Indo-Greek king of the late second and early first century BCE, linked to Menander I's dynasty and known almost entirely from coins.
Stratocracy
Stratocracy: rule by the armed forces themselves, from Greek stratos; distinct from military dictatorship, junta, praetorianism, and garrison state; Myanmar post-2021 is the most cited modern example.
Stratocumulus cloud
Stratocumulus cloud is a low, gray or whitish cloud layer of rounded masses or rolls, the most common cloud type on Earth, covering about one-fifth of the planet.
Stratolaunch Systems
Stratolaunch Systems is an American aerospace company founded by Paul Allen in 2011 at Mojave, California, which built the Roc and now flies reusable hypersonic Talon-A testbeds.
Stratoni
Stratoni (Greek: Στρατώνι) is a coastal village of about 1,200 people at the head of the bay of Ierissos on the Halkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece, and the site of an underground silver-lead-zinc mine.
Stratonicaea/Hadrianopolis
Stratonicaea/Hadrianopolis was a Hellenistic and Roman city in the borderland between Mysia and Lydia in western Asia Minor, refounded by Hadrian and identified with modern Siledik, Türkiye.
Stratonice of Libya
Stratonice was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the second ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, known only from an ancient list and a mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria.
Stratonicea (Lydia)
Stratonicea, also written Stratonikeia, was an ancient city in Lydia, western Anatolia, renamed Hadrianopolis in honor of Hadrian and known from coins of about AD 238–268.
Stratonikeia
Stratonikeia (Stratonicea, Greek Στρατoνίκεια), ancient Carian city at Eskihisar, Yatağan, Muğla, Turkey; renamed by Antiochus I for his wife Stratonike; largest known ancient gymnasium; UNESCO Tentative List 2015.
Stratonovich integral
The Stratonovich integral is a stochastic integral, introduced by R. L. Stratonovich in 1966, that evaluates the integrand at interval midpoints and obeys the ordinary chain rule of calculus.
Stratos (Greece)
Stratos (Στράτος), also Latinized Stratus, was an ancient Greek city in Acarnania, northwestern Greece, the chief town of Acarnania and first capital of the Acarnanian League.
Stratosphere
The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer from about 10–15 km to 50 km, where temperature rises with altitude and the ozone layer shields Earth from ultraviolet radiation.
Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC)
SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) was a World Climate Research Programme core project, founded in 1992, that coordinated international research on how stratospheric processes affect climate.
Stratospheric aerosol injection
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), also called stratospheric sulfate injection, is a proposed solar geoengineering method that would cool Earth by injecting reflective particles into the stratosphere.
Stratospheric cooling
Stratospheric cooling is the observed and predicted decline in the temperature of Earth's stratosphere, driven mainly by rising carbon dioxide and, in the lower stratosphere, ozone depletion.
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was a NASA and German Aerospace Center infrared telescope in a modified Boeing 747SP, operating from 2010 to 2022.
Stratovarius
Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band formed in winter 1984, known for keyboard-driven melodic power metal with neoclassical guitar. Seventeen studio albums from Fright Night (1989) to Survive (2022); Infinite hit number one in Finland; Timo Tolkki led and wrote its hits until leaving in 2007.
Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also called a composite volcano, is a steep, conical volcano built from alternating lava flows, tephra, and pyroclastic flows, like Mount Fuji and Mount St. Helens.
Strattam Capital
Strattam Capital is a private equity firm founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, investing $20–60 million in founder-led business-to-business software companies across North America.
Stratton (film)
Stratton is a 2017 British action thriller directed by Simon West, based on Duncan Falconer's SBS novels, starring Dominic Cooper as John Stratton (replacing Henry Cavill). Filmed in Italy and London, released September 2017, it received 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stratton Oakmont
Stratton Oakmont, Inc., defunct Lake Success, New York broker-dealer (1989 to 1996) founded by Jordan Belfort; penny-stock boiler room known for IPO manipulation, NASD expulsion in 1996, SIPA liquidation, and the Wolf of Wall Street case.
Stratum
A stratum (plural strata) is a layer of rock distinguished from adjacent layers by lithologic properties. Their study, stratigraphy, traces how rock layers relate to geologic time.
Stratum corneum
Stratum corneum: the outermost epidermal layer and the skin's main permeability barrier, built of dead corneocytes in a ceramide-rich lipid matrix (brick-and-mortar model), regulating water loss, hydration, and desquamation.
Stratus
Stratus is the stage name of Patrick Stratton, an American dubstep producer and DJ based in Chicago who has released on Ultra, OWSLA, and Subcarbon since 2011.
Stratus cloud
Stratus cloud is a generally gray, low cloud layer with a fairly uniform base that may give drizzle, snow, or snow grains, sometimes forming from lifting fog.