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Summit1g
Summit1g (Jaryd Lazar), American Twitch variety streamer and former semi-pro CS:GO player; streaming since 2012, most-followed Twitch channel in 2018, 6.4M followers, peak 310,998 viewers.
Summits of the Americas
The Summits of the Americas are periodic meetings of the heads of state and government of the Western Hemisphere, convened since 1994 to address political, economic, and security challenges collectively.
Summits on the Air
Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an amateur radio award program, launched in 2002, that awards points to operators transmitting from summits and to those who contact them.
Summoning to the Bier
Summoning to the Bier (Tetemre hívás) is an 1877 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany, built on the old legal custom of summoning suspects to a corpse.
Summons
Summons: a court document notifying a defendant of a lawsuit and the deadline to respond; also called writ of summons or claim form. Served with the complaint; nonresponse risks default judgment.
Summons of the Soul
Summons of the Soul (Zhaohun) is a poem in the ancient Chinese Chu Ci anthology that imitates the rite of calling a wandering soul home.
Summum bonum
Summum bonum, Latin for "the highest good," is Cicero's ethical term for the supreme end of human action. Ancient schools defined it variously (pleasure, virtue, eudaimonia); Augustine and Aquinas identified it with God; Kant joined virtue and happiness.
Summuntorium
Summuntorium, also Submuntorium, a Roman military site at Burghöfe, Mertingen, Bavaria, in Raetia about 30 km north of Augsburg; occupied from the early 40s AD to the 5th century, with a Tetrarchic stone fort and a vicus.
Summus P(o)eninus
Summus P(o)eninus, the Roman name of the Great St. Bernard Pass summit (2,473 m) and its sanctuary of Jupiter Poeninus, with a Flavian temple, about 52 bronze votive tablets, and a mansio, destroyed in 394.
Sumner Benedict
Sumner Benedict (Charles Sumner Benedict, 1867–1952) was an American rifle shooter and physician who won team military rifle gold for the United States at the 1908 London Olympics and placed =13 in the 1,000-yard free rifle.
Sumner Byron Myers
Sumner Byron Myers (1910–1955) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who proved the 1941 Bonnet–Myers theorem, showing that positive Ricci curvature makes a complete Riemannian manifold compact.
Sumner H. Slichter
Sumner H. Slichter (1892–1959) was an American labor economist at Harvard University, president of the American Economic Association in 1940–41 and the first Thomas W. Lamont University Professor.
Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kansas)
Sumner High School was a public high school in Kansas City, Kansas, that operated from 1905 to 1978 as the only legislated African American high school in Kansas.
Sumner High School (St. Louis)
Sumner High School is a St. Louis public high school founded in 1875, the first Black public high school west of the Mississippi River, whose alumni include Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, and Arthur Ashe.
Sumner Paine
Sumner Paine (1868-1904), American shooter and Harvard-trained physician, won 1896 Olympic gold in 30 m free pistol (442 points) and silver in 25 m military pistol (380), competing with brother John Paine.
Sumner Redstone
Sumner Redstone (Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), American media mogul who built National Amusements' drive-in theaters into control of Viacom, Paramount Pictures, and CBS; coined 'content is king'; succeeded by daughter Shari Redstone.
Sumner Tunnel
The Sumner Tunnel is a mile-long vehicular tunnel under Boston Harbor connecting East Boston with downtown Boston, opened on June 30, 1934, as Massachusetts' first traffic tunnel.
Sumner White
Sumner Wheeler White III (1929-1988), American sailor and investment banker; with twin brother Ed won 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold in the 5.5-metre class aboard Complex II, helmed by Britton Chance.
Sumnima
Sumnima (सुम्निमा) is a 1970 Nepali-language novel by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Nepal's first elected prime minister, following a Brahmin youth and a Kirat woman whose conflicting worldviews drive the story.
Sumo (film)
Sumo (சுமோ) is a 2025 Tamil sports comedy directed by S. P. Hosimin, starring Shiva, Priya Anand, and real retired sumo wrestler Yoshinori Tashiro. Shot in 2019, delayed five years, released 25 April 2025; a memory-lost sumo wrestler washes ashore near Chennai.
Sumo (相撲)
Sumo (相撲), Japan's national sport, is 1,500-year-old full-contact wrestling in a clay dohyo ring, governed by the Japan Sumo Association with six 15-day tournaments, about 700 rikishi, and the undemotable yokozuna rank.
Sumo Digital
Sumo Digital: British video game developer founded in Sheffield in 2003, Tencent-owned since 2022 ($1.3 billion Sumo Group deal). Known for Sackboy: A Big Adventure, LittleBigPlanet 3, Crackdown 3, and Sonic racing games; now a co-development services studio.
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a proprietary, SaaS-only log analytics and observability platform that collects, indexes, and analyzes logs, metrics, and telemetry for engineering and security teams.
SUMO1
SUMO1, the small ubiquitin-like modifier 1 gene, encodes an 11 kDa ubiquitin-like protein attached to target proteins in SUMOylation, which regulates nuclear transport, transcription, and DNA repair.
Sumona Chakravarti
Sumona Chakravarti (born 1988, Lucknow) is an Indian actress known as Natasha Kapoor in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain and for comic roles on Kapil Sharma's shows; films include Mann, Barfi!, and Kick.
SUMOylation enzymes
SUMOylation enzymes: the E1 SAE1/UBA2, E2 Ubc9, E3 ligases (PIAS, RanBP2/Nup358, Pc2/CBX4, ZNF451, TOPORS), and SENP proteases that attach and remove SUMO from proteins, regulating DNA repair, immunity, and cancer.
Sump
A sump is a pit or low space that collects liquid, usually water that drains in by gravity before being pumped out, as in a basement sump pump pit.
Sump (cave)
Sump (cave): a completely water-filled section of cave passage, also called a siphon. Passed by breath-hold free diving or cave diving; Pozo Azul Sump 2 (5,160 m) is the longest known.
Sump pump
A sump pump is an automatic water pump in a sump pit set into a basement or crawlspace floor, pumping collected groundwater away from the building.
Sump recirculation
Sump recirculation is the long-term phase of emergency core cooling in a nuclear power plant, in which pumps draw water collected in the containment sump and return it to the reactor core.