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Strawberry vein banding virus

Strawberry vein banding virus (SVBV, Caulimovirus venafragariae) is a dsDNA caulimovirus of Fragaria strawberries, aphid-transmitted semipersistently, causing vein banding, first reported 1955, distributed worldwide.

Strawbs

Strawbs, English rock band founded 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys, led by Dave Cousins; first UK act signed to A&M Records, folk rock to progressive rock, 1973 hit Part of the Union at UK No. 2; Cousins died 2025.

Stray (video game)

Stray (HK_Project) is a 2022 third-person cat adventure game by BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive, set in a Kowloon-inspired cybercity with drone B-12; Metacritic 83, released July 19, 2022.

Oct 22, 2026

Stray Birds

Stray Birds (Bengali: ছোট পাখি) is a 1916 collection of 325 short aphoristic poems by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and translated by Tagore himself.

Stray Cats

Stray Cats, an American rockabilly revival trio (Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker, Slim Jim Phantom) formed 1979 in Massapequa, New York; known for the hits "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut," and "(She's) Sexy + 17," and for moving to London in 1980 to spearhead the early-1980s rockabilly revival.

Stray current corrosion

Stray current corrosion is corrosion of buried or immersed metal structures, chiefly pipelines, caused by external electric currents from DC rail systems and cathodic protection.

Stray Dog (野良犬) (film)

Stray Dog (野良犬, Nora inu) is Akira Kurosawa's 1949 Japanese crime film, 122 minutes, in which detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune), with veteran Sato (Takashi Shimura), hunts his stolen Colt pistol through postwar Tokyo's black market.

Oct 3, 2026

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs (郊遊, Jiao You) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2013 Taiwan-France drama about a homeless father and two children in Taipei; it won the Venice Grand Jury Prize and Golden Horse Best Director and Best Actor.

Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈)

Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈) is an eight-member JYP Entertainment boy group that debuted March 25, 2018 with I am NOT; its 3RACHA team self-produces its music, and it holds six consecutive Billboard 200 number-ones.

Stray voltage

Stray voltage is a small voltage between two surfaces an animal touches at once, such as a water trough and barn floor, giving dairy cows a mild shock.

Strays (2023 film)

Strays is a 2023 Universal R-rated live-action comedy about talking dogs, directed by Josh Greenbaum, written by Dan Perrault, starring voices of Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, distinct from the 2023 Netflix thriller The Strays.

Strays (TV series)

Strays is a Canadian CBC sitcom (2021-2022), a Kim's Convenience spin-off starring Nicole Power as Shannon Ross, executive director of the Hamilton East Animal Shelter; two seasons, 20 episodes, developed by Kevin White.

Stráže-Krakovany

Stráže-Krakovany: village of Krakovany and its part Stráže, Piešťany District, Slovakia; first recorded 1113 (Craco, Villa Spectaculi); merged 1943/44; famed for 3rd-century Germanic princely graves and the Stráže Treasure.

Streak artifact

A streak artifact is a spurious, poorly defined band of brightness in a CT image, radiating from dense structures like bone, metal implants, or contrast, sometimes rendering scans unusable.

Streaking

Streaking is running naked through a public place as a prank or stunt, a 1974 American college fad of over 1,000 recorded incidents, celebrated by Ray Stevens' "The Streak," studied as collective behavior, and now largely extinct at televised sporting events.

Streaking (microbiology)

Streaking (streak plate method) is a qualitative microbiology technique for isolating pure colonies from mixed cultures by diluting inoculum across agar with a sterile loop; unlike spread and pour plates it is not quantitative and uses one plate.

Stream

Stream: a body of flowing water in a defined channel, from headwater creeks to rivers (USGS FCode 46000). Covers streamflow, watersheds, sediment, classification systems, and restoration frameworks.

Stream bank

Stream bank: the sloping ground bordering a stream channel, also called streambank. Erodes by fluvial erosion and mass failure, measured as horizontal bank loss (cm/y), and is managed through stabilization practices like jetties and toe protection.

Stream bend

Stream bend (meander bend): a curve in a stream channel where faster outer flow erodes a cut bank while slower inner flow builds a point bar, driving lateral and downstream migration, cutoffs, and oxbow lakes; geometry follows a length-to-radius ratio near 4.7.

Stream buffer

A stream buffer is a small hardware prefetch buffer, proposed by Norman Jouppi in 1990, that holds cache lines fetched ahead of the processor's demands.

Stream capture

Stream capture, also called river capture or stream piracy, is the natural diversion of a stream's water into a neighboring drainage basin, reorganizing river networks.

Stream cipher

A stream cipher, also called a streaming cipher, is a symmetric encryption algorithm that encrypts data one bit or byte at a time using a keystream.

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented transport-layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite, offering multi-streaming and multi-homing; it carries telephony signaling and WebRTC data channels.

Stream function

The stream function, also known as Lagrange's streamfunction, is a scalar function in fluid dynamics whose derivatives give velocity components for two-dimensional incompressible flow, so continuity is satisfied automatically.

Stream gauge

A stream gauge is an installation on a river or stream that continuously records water-surface height, called stage, from which the flow volume, or discharge, is computed.

Stream metabolism

Stream metabolism is the combined rate of organic-carbon production and consumption in a stream, measured as gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem production.

Stream mouth

Stream mouth (river mouth): the place where a stream or river discharges into a larger stream, lake, lagoon, reservoir, or the sea; the terminus where alluvium is deposited, forming deltas, mouth bars, and estuaries.

Stream of consciousness

Stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that presents a character's continuous, associative flow of thoughts and impressions. It was coined by William James in 1890.