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Sublime (album)
Sublime (album): self-titled 1996 Gasoline Alley/MCA record by the Long Beach ska-punk band Sublime; released two months after Bradley Nowell's death, sold over 5 million copies, went 5x platinum, with hits 'What I Got,' 'Santeria,' and 'Wrong Way.'
Sublime (band)
Sublime: Long Beach, California ska-punk/reggae band formed 1988 by Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh; albums 40oz. to Freedom, Robbin' the Hood, self-titled 1996 (over 5 million copies), and 2026's Until the Sun Explodes with Jakob Nowell.
Sublime (philosophy)
The sublime is an aesthetic concept of overwhelming greatness, defined in the 1st-century Greek treatise On the Sublime and developed by Burke in 1757 and Kant in 1790.
Sublime Porte
The Sublime Porte (Bâb-ı Âli, "high gate") was the Ottoman central government's Istanbul administrative complex, seat of the Grand Vizier and ministries, and a diplomatic metonym for the Ottoman government until 1922.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a proprietary, cross-platform text editor for code and prose, developed by Sublime HQ, extensible through Python plugins, and free to evaluate with no time limit.
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome was a Long Beach, California rock band formed in 2009 by Sublime's Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh with singer Rome Ramirez, renamed for legal reasons; it released four albums, 2011-2024, before ending as Sublime reformed with Jakob Nowell.
Subliminal stimuli
Subliminal stimuli are inputs presented below conscious perception, typically via brief masked flashes under 50 ms. They produce modest, replicable priming effects extending to semantic processing, while popular claims about subliminal advertising and self-help tapes lack support.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus, also known as Veritas Ipsa, is a 1537 papal bull of Pope Paul III declaring the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to be true humans who must not be enslaved.
Sublingual administration
Sublingual administration places a drug under the tongue for absorption through oral mucosa into systemic circulation, bypassing hepatic first-pass metabolism; used for nitroglycerin, buprenorphine, fentanyl, and nicotine.
Sublingual immunotherapy
Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is an allergy treatment in which allergen tablets or drops held under the tongue desensitize patients with allergic rhinitis or asthma, an alternative to injected immunotherapy.
Sublingual varices
Sublingual varices, also called caviar tongue or lingual varicosities, are benign dilated tortuous veins under the tongue, affecting roughly 23–35% of adults, increasing with age, and associated with hypertension, smoking, and cardiovascular disease.
Sublobar resection
Sublobar resection is an operation for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer that removes part of a lung lobe rather than the whole lobe, preserving more lung function.
Subluxation
Subluxation: in medicine, a partial joint dislocation; in chiropractic, a putative spinal lesion central to the profession since DD Palmer's 1895 founding, whose detection and clinical significance remain scientifically contested.
Subluxation of tooth
Subluxation of tooth (ICD-11 NA0D.11): a traumatic dental injury to periodontal tissues causing abnormal tooth loosening without displacement, with gingival sulcus bleeding; managed conservatively with soft diet and radiographs.
Submachine gun
A submachine gun is a hand-held, magazine-fed, shoulder-fired automatic weapon that fires pistol ammunition; after World War II it was largely replaced militarily by the assault rifle.
Submandibular gland
Submandibular gland: paired major salivary gland below the mandible, second largest after the parotid; drains via Wharton's duct, makes ~70% of resting saliva, and accounts for over 80% of salivary stones.
Submarine
A submarine is a watercraft capable of operating fully submerged, using ballast tanks to dive and surface while carrying its own power plant, air supply, and weapons.
Submarine (2010 film)
Submarine (2010) is a British coming-of-age comedy-drama, Richard Ayoade's feature directorial debut, adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel. Set in 1980s Swansea, it stars Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, and Paddy Considine, produced by Warp Films and Film4 with an Alex Turner soundtrack.
Submarine (The Marías album)
Submarine is The Marías' second studio album, released May 31, 2024 on Nice Life/Atlantic; 14 dream-pop, jazz and disco tracks written by María Zardoya and Josh Conway after their breakup, featuring "No One Noticed."
Submarine aircraft carrier
A submarine aircraft carrier is a submarine carrying and launching floatplanes, used by several navies between the world wars and deployed in quantity by Japan in World War II.
Submarine canyon
Submarine canyons are steep-walled valleys cut into continental slopes by turbidity currents, linking shelves to the deep sea. About 5,849 large canyons are mapped globally; they transport sediment, drive carbon sequestration, and host deep-sea biodiversity hotspots.
Submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a fiber-optic cable laid on or beneath the seabed, carrying about 99% of international data traffic; the first was laid in 1850.
Submarine depth ratings
A submarine depth rating is the maximum depth at which a submarine can operate, distinguished as test depth, maximum operating depth, and collapse depth, each with a different safety margin.
Submarine fan
A submarine fan is a large sediment accumulation on the ocean floor, built by turbidity currents; the Bengal Fan, the largest, is about 3000 km long.
Submarine films
Submarine films: a film genre centered on submarines and undersea vessels, from the Williamson Submarine Tube (1914) and Capra's Submarine (1928) through Das Boot, Cold War thrillers, and documentary hybrids.
Submarine groundwater discharge
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is the flow of water from the seabed into the coastal ocean, combining fresh groundwater and seawater recirculated through coastal sediments.
Submarine landslide
A submarine landslide is the downslope movement of sediment or rock on the seafloor under gravity, occurring on slopes as gentle as 1 degree, destroying seabed infrastructure, and generating tsunamis.
Submarine morphology
Submarine morphology: the study of seafloor landforms from continental shelf and slope to abyssal plains, trenches, and seamounts, shaped by tectonics, turbidity currents, and sediment supply, and mapped by sonar and altimetry.
Submarine power cable
A submarine power cable is an insulated cable laid on or buried in the seabed to transmit power across water, first installed in Germany in 1811.
Submarine sandwich
Submarine sandwich (sub, hero, hoagie, grinder, po' boy): a long split roll filled with cold cuts, cheese, and vegetables, an Italian-American creation; "sub" dominates nationally while "hoagie" is Philadelphia's regional term, first printed as "submarine sandwich" in 1940.