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Suffete
The suffete (plural shophetim, Latinized sufes) was one of two annually elected chief magistrates of Carthage, presiding over the senate, judging cases, and occasionally leading armies.
Sufficient dimension reduction
Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a family of statistical methods that replaces a predictor vector with a few linear combinations retaining all information about the response.
Sufficient statistic
A sufficient statistic is a function of a sample holding all the information the data provide about a model's parameters, introduced by Ronald A. Fisher in 1922.
Suffield Oil and Gas Field
The Suffield oil and gas field is a group of shallow natural gas and conventional oil pools in southeast Alberta, Canada, on and around Canadian Forces Base Suffield near Medicine Hat.
Suffix
Suffix: a bound morpheme attached after a root or stem, as in English -ity or plural -s. Distinguished from prefixes, infixes, circumfixes; split into inflectional and derivational types; subject of the cross-linguistic suffixing preference.
Suffix array
A suffix array is an array of integers giving the starting positions of a text's suffixes in sorted order, enabling fast full-text search through binary search.
Suffix tree
The suffix tree, also called a position tree, is a compressed trie containing all suffixes of a text, allowing substring queries in time linear in the pattern length.
Suffocation (band)
Suffocation is an American brutal/technical death metal band formed in the late 1980s in Centereach, Long Island, New York, known for Effigy of the Forgotten (1991), inventing slams, and nine studio albums through Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023).
Suffolk
Suffolk, rural county in East of England (1,466 sq mi, population over 786,000, largest town Ipswich). Two-tier local government of county plus five district councils; 2026 plan for three unitary authorities withdrawn September 2026.
Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Suffolk County, Massachusetts: county containing Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop; founded May 10, 1643 as one of four original Massachusetts Bay Colony counties; county government abolished July 1, 1999, with Boston's mayor and council serving as county commissioners; 797,936 residents in 2020.
Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County, New York, is a county occupying the eastern two-thirds of Long Island, established in 1683, with its county seat at Riverhead and roughly 1.5 million residents.
Suffolk Punch
Suffolk Punch (Suffolk Horse): British heavy draught breed from East Anglia, dating to the 16th century; all trace to Crisp's Horse of Ufford (1768); always chesnut, no feather; critically endangered, under 500 in the UK.
Suffolk sheep
Suffolk sheep: black-faced British meat breed from Norfolk Horn ewes crossed with Southdown rams, first recorded 1797; leading terminal sire in UK, Ireland, and US, known for rapid lamb growth.
Suffolk Technologies
Suffolk Technologies is a Boston venture capital firm affiliated with Suffolk, a $5 billion national construction firm, investing in construction, real estate, and infrastructure technology startups since 2019.
Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk, Virginia: independent city in Hampton Roads, largest Virginia city by land area (430 sq mi) after the 1974 merger with Nansemond County; population 104,699 (2025 est.), historic peanut and Planters company center.
Suffrage
Suffrage, also called the franchise (Latin suffragium), is the right to vote in elections. Article covers its definition, US/UK legal basis, historical expansion from property tests to universal adult suffrage, remaining exclusions, and scholarly debates.
Suffrage art and visual iconography
Suffrage art and visual iconography is the visual material of women's suffrage movements, including the WSPU's purple, white, and green colors, banners, badges, and postcards.
Suffrage drama and pageantry
Suffrage drama and pageantry is the body of plays and pageants created by women's suffrage movements in Britain and the United States from 1907 onward.
Suffragette
Suffragette: militant British women's-suffrage activists, mainly WSPU members under Emmeline Pankhurst, labeled by the Daily Mail in 1906; 'deeds not words' tactics, hunger strikes, 1918 partial and 1928 equal franchise.
Suffragette (film)
Suffragette is Sarah Gavron's 2015 historical drama, written by Abi Morgan, starring Carey Mulligan as fictional laundry worker Maud Watts drawn into the militant WSPU, with Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst; it premiered at Telluride, earned £35m, and drew controversy over casting and Pankhurst T-shirts.
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (صوفی غلام مصطفیٰ تبسم; 1899–1978) was a Pakistani poet, teacher, and translator in Punjabi, Urdu, and Persian who created the children's character Tot Batot.
Sufi kalam (music genre)
Sufi kalam is the devotional song repertoire of South Asian Sufism, sung above all as the Punjabi kafi, with core poets Shah Hussain, Bulleh Shah, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
Sufi metaphysics
Sufi metaphysics: the theoretical doctrines of Islamic mysticism (taṣawwuf) on being, God, and the soul's return. Centered on waḥdat al-wujūd (Unity of Being) of Ibn ʿArabī, opposed by waḥdat al-shuhūd of Sirhindī, and systematized by Mullā Ṣadrā.
Sufi poetry
Sufi poetry (الشعر الصوفي) is poetry from the Islamic mystical tradition expressing divine love, longing, and union with God through symbolic language like wine imagery.
Sufi whirling
Sufi whirling, also known as Sufi Dance, is the ceremonial turning practiced in Sufism, most famously in the Mevlevi sema, where dervishes rotate as prayer.
Sufia Kamal
Sufia Kamal (সুফিয়া কামাল, 1911–1999) was a Bangladeshi poet and feminist who led the women's rights movement and was the first Bangladeshi woman buried with state honors.
Sufism
Sufism, known in Arabic as tasawwuf, is the inner, spiritual dimension of Islam rather than a separate sect, organized in brotherhoods called tariqas and centered on dhikr, the repetitive invocation of God's names.
Sufism in India
Sufism in India is the South Asian expression of Islamic mysticism, brought by Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti, who settled in Ajmer in the late 12th century.
Sufiya Sufi
Sufiya Sufi (Sufiya Sufi Runner), Indian ultramarathoner from Ajmer, Rajasthan; holds five Guinness World Records including fastest Manali to Leh (430 km in 98h 27m, 2023) and Golden Quadrilateral (6,002 km in 110 days, 2021).
Sufiyum Sujatayum (സൂഫിയും സുജാതയും)
Sufiyum Sujatayum (സൂഫിയും സുജാതയും), also spelled Sufiyum Sujathayum, is a 2020 Malayalam romantic musical drama by Naranipuzha Shanavas starring Jayasurya, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Dev Mohan; the first Malayalam direct OTT release, on Amazon Prime Video, 3 July 2020.