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Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport
Salgado Filho International Airport is the main airport of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, handling more than 7.5 million passengers in 2023.
Saliency maps
Saliency maps are heatmap visualizations highlighting which parts of an input image a neural network considered most relevant to its prediction, introduced by Oxford researchers in 2013.
Salil Vadhan
Salil Vadhan is a computer scientist and the Vicky Joseph Professor at Harvard, known for the zig-zag graph product in pseudorandomness and for leading differential privacy research, including OpenDP.
Salina Cruz
Salina Cruz is a city and port on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, inaugurated as a planned port in 1907 under President Porfirio Díaz.
Saline Water Conversion Corp
Saline Water Conversion Corp (المؤسسة العامة لتحلية المياه المالحة), known as SWCC, was a Saudi government corporation that desalinated seawater, established by royal decree in 1974.
Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St Mary, Salisbury, is the cathedral of Salisbury, Wiltshire, an exemplar of Early English Gothic built from 1220 and consecrated in 1258.
Sally port
A sally port, also called a sally gate, is a secure controlled opening in a fortification or prison; in forts it let a besieged garrison launch sorties.
Sally Ride
Sally Ride was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who became the first American woman in space on Challenger in 1983 and served on both shuttle accident investigation boards.
Salman field
The Salman field is an offshore oil and gas field in the Persian Gulf, about 144 km south of Iran's Lavan Island, producing since 1968.
Salmanovskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Salmanovskoye (Utrenneye) oil and gas condensate field is a large gas field on Russia's northern Gydan Peninsula, discovered in 1979 and renamed for geologist Farman Salmanov.
Salmon-class submarine
The Salmon-class submarine was a class of six United States Navy fleet submarines commissioned in 1937 and 1938, a step toward World War II fleet boats.
Salomon (brand)
Salomon is a French sports equipment and footwear brand founded in 1947 in Annecy in the French Alps, known for ski gear and trail running shoes.
Salomon Levy
Salomon Levy (1926–2016) was an Israeli-born American nuclear engineer who helped develop the boiling water reactor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
Salon car
A salon car (German Salonwagen, French voiture salon) is a railway passenger carriage laid out around open salons rather than compartments, built for royalty, governments, and luxury trains.
Salp swarm algorithm
The salp swarm algorithm (SSA) is a bio-inspired metaheuristic for optimizing single- and multi-objective continuous functions, proposed by Seyedali Mirjalili and colleagues in Advances in Engineering Software in 2017.
Salp swarm optimization
Salp swarm optimization, also called the Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), is a population-based metaheuristic proposed by Seyedali Mirjalili and colleagues in 2017 that mimics the chain-forming movement of salps to solve engineering design problems.
Salsa20
Salsa20 is a stream cipher designed by Daniel J. Bernstein in 2005 and submitted to eSTREAM, using 256-bit keys and 20 rounds for fast software encryption.
Salt (cryptography)
A salt in cryptography, also called password salting, is a unique random string added to each password before hashing, so identical passwords produce different hashes and attackers must crack each hash individually.
Salt cavern gas storage
Salt cavern gas storage holds natural gas in cavities dissolved from underground rock salt by solution mining, one of three main US storage types and prized for very high deliverability.
Salt hydrate thermal energy storage
Salt hydrate thermal energy storage stores heat in water-containing salts, as phase change materials absorbing latent heat on melting or as thermochemical storage via reversible dehydration reactions.
Salt Lake City International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport is a commercial airport five miles northwest of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, handling about 28 million passengers in 2025 as a major Delta hub.
Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle is a domed assembly hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, completed in 1867 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Salt River Project
Salt River Project is a not-for-profit water and electric utility serving central Arizona since 1903, with more than 1.2 million electric customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Salted hash password storage
Salted hash password storage is the practice of hashing passwords with a unique random salt using deliberately slow functions like Argon2id, recommended by NIST and OWASP over plaintext or encryption.
Salter's duck
Salter's duck, also called the nodding duck or Edinburgh duck, is a wave energy converter invented by Stephen Salter at Edinburgh in 1974, never tested at sea after a disputed 1982 cost review.
Salto (robot)
Salto is a small one-legged jumping robot developed at the University of California, Berkeley, introduced in 2016 as the most vertically agile jumping robot ever built at the time.
Salto Grande Dam
Salto Grande Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, owned and operated equally by Argentina and Uruguay, with an installed capacity of 1,890 MW.
Salto Santiago hydroelectric plant
Salto Santiago hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Salto Santiago) is a 1,420 MW dam on the middle Iguaçu River in Paraná, Brazil, opened in 1980 and operated by Engie Brasil.
Salton Sea geothermal field
The Salton Sea geothermal field is a high-temperature, liquid-dominated geothermal field on the southern shore of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California, producing electricity since 1982.
Salvador García Muñoz
Salvador García Muñoz is a Mexican chemical engineer at Eli Lilly who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for advancing Quality by Design.