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Scion xB
The Scion xB was a boxy small wagon sold by Toyota's Scion brand in North America from 2003 to 2015, based on the Japanese-market Toyota bB.
Scissor lift
A scissor lift is a mobile scaffold work platform that raises workers vertically on crossed scissor arms; OSHA classifies it as a scaffold, not an aerial lift.
Scitos G5
The Scitos G5 is a differential-drive mobile service robot platform made by MetraLabs GmbH of Ilmenau, Germany, for research projects and service applications in retail, care, and museums.
SciVal
SciVal is a web-based research analytics platform developed by Elsevier that lets institutions and researchers visualize, benchmark, and compare research performance using Scopus publication and citation data.
SCMaglev
SCMaglev, also known as JR-Maglev or Superconducting Maglev, is a Japanese maglev train system by JR Central that holds the manned railway speed record of 603 km/h.
SCOOP/STACK
SCOOP/STACK is a pair of unconventional oil and gas plays, the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province and the Sooner Trend, in the Anadarko Basin of central Oklahoma.
Scoot
Scoot, also known as Scoot Pte Ltd, is a Singapore low-cost airline wholly owned by Singapore Airlines, founded in 2011 and flying from Changi Airport across Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Scooter (motorcycle)
A scooter, or motor scooter, is a type of motorcycle with a step-through frame and a built-in platform for the rider's feet, first mass-produced in the United States as the Autoped around 1915.
Scope (computer science)
Scope, also called variable scoping, is the region of a program's source text where a name may refer to a binding, either lexically or dynamically.
Scope 3
Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions across a company's value chain, one of three scopes defined by the GHG Protocol and typically the largest.
Scope clause
A scope clause is a provision in a major US airline's pilot union contract limiting regional carriers' flying, typically capping regional jet seats at 50 to 76.
Scope creep
Scope creep, also called kitchen sink syndrome or requirements creep, is the uncontrolled expansion of a project's features, distinguished from authorized scope change by approval.
Scopus
Scopus, also known as Elsevier Scopus, is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature launched by Elsevier in 2004, with records back to 1788 and metrics such as CiteScore.
SCORE (satellite)
SCORE, short for Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment, was an experimental United States communications satellite launched in December 1958, recognized as the first communications satellite.
Score distillation
Score distillation is a machine learning technique that uses a frozen diffusion model's denoising direction to optimize images or 3D scenes, best known from DreamFusion's 2022 text-to-3D.
Score-based generative models
Score-based generative models learn the score, the gradient of the data's log-probability, at many noise levels and generate samples by reversing a gradual noising process.
Scorpène-class submarine
The Scorpène-class submarine is a diesel-electric attack submarine developed for the export market by France's DCN and Spain's Bazán, serving with five navies including Chile, India, and Brazil.
Scotch yoke
The Scotch yoke is a mechanism that converts rotation into reciprocating linear motion, producing exact simple harmonic motion from a crank pin sliding in a slot.
Scotford Upgrader
The Scotford Upgrader, opened in 2003 as part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, converts oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude oil and feeds the Quest carbon capture facility.
Scotia Gas Field
The Scotia Gas Field is a coal seam gas field in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, operated by Santos and producing since 2002 as its first coal seam methane venture.
Scotia Plaza
Scotia Plaza is a commercial office complex in Toronto's Financial District, centered on a 68-storey, 275 m tower at 40 King Street West completed in 1988 as Scotiabank's headquarters.
Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP)
The Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP) is a subsea gas pipeline from Twynholm, Scotland to Islandmagee, Northern Ireland, carrying almost all of Northern Ireland's natural gas.
Scott (brand)
Scott, marketed in China as 适高, is an American paper products brand owned by Kimberly-Clark, best known for toilet paper, paper towels, and shop towels, descended from Scott Paper Company.
Scott A. Barnett
Scott A. Barnett is a materials scientist who has been a professor at Northwestern University since 1986, known for research on solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells.
Scott A. Craver
Scott A. Craver is an American electrical and computer engineering professor at Binghamton University known for ambiguity attacks on watermarking and for helping break the 2000 SDMI challenge.
Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist who holds the Schlumberger Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and directs its Quantum Information Center.
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter, born Malcolm Scott Carpenter, was an American naval aviator and Mercury Seven astronaut who became the second American to orbit Earth in 1962.
Scott David Kelly
Scott David Kelly is an American mechanical engineer and control theorist at UNC Charlotte who received a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for his work on robotic swimming.
Scott Forstall
Scott Forstall is an American software engineer and Broadway producer. He led the original iPhone software team and served as Apple's Senior Vice President of iOS Software.
Scott Kelly (astronaut)
Scott Kelly, also known as Scott Joseph Kelly, is a retired American astronaut who set an American record with a 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station in 2015–2016.