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Shun'ichi Iwasaki
Shun'ichi Iwasaki (岩崎俊一, born 1926 in Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese electrical engineer who invented perpendicular magnetic recording at Tohoku University in 1977, honored with the Japan Prize in 2010.
Shunbei Oil and Gas Field
Shunbei Oil and Gas Field (顺北) is an ultra-deep fault-controlled oil and gas field in the central Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2016 and operated by Sinopec.
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武)
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer at Illinois known for radar scattering and stealth technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Shunt (electrical)
A shunt, also called an ammeter shunt, is a low-value precision resistor that lets a circuit's full current be measured from the small voltage drop across it.
Shunt reactor
A shunt reactor is an inductive device connected in parallel with high-voltage transmission lines to absorb capacitive reactive power, preventing excessive voltages on lightly loaded lines and cables.
Shunt resistor
A shunt resistor is a low-value precision resistor placed in series with a circuit so its small voltage drop gives a measurement of the current flowing through it.
Shunting (rail)
Shunting, called switching in North America, is the movement of rail vehicles within a yard to attach, detach, or rearrange them, done at scale in classification yards.
Shunting locomotive
A shunting locomotive, called a switcher or yard goat in American English, is a railway traction unit that moves wagons and carriages over short distances in yards, stations, and depots.
Shunyu Yao (姚顺雨)
Shunyu Yao (姚顺雨) is a Chinese computer scientist trained at Tsinghua and Princeton who created ReAct and Tree of Thoughts and became Tencent's Chief AI Scientist in 2025.
Shuohuang railway
The Shuohuang railway (朔黄铁路) is a 598 km electrified heavy-haul coal railway in northern China, running from Shenchinan in Shanxi to Huanghua Port in Hebei.
Shuopu New Materials
Shuopu New Materials, formally Hunan Shuopu New Materials Co. (湖南烁普新材料有限公司), was a Chinese manufacturer of wet-process lithium-ion power battery separators in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2017.
Shuqaiq 2 IWPP
Shuqaiq 2 IWPP is an oil-fired power and desalination plant on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, generating 850 MW and 212,000 m³ of water daily.
Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant
The Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant is an oil-fired steam power station at Shuqaiq on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, owned and operated by the Saudi Electricity Company.
Shure
Shure is an American audio equipment manufacturer founded by Sidney N. Shure in Chicago in 1925 and headquartered in Niles, Illinois, known for microphones like the SM58 and SM7.
Shuriken (手裏剣)
Shuriken (手裏剣), also known as a ninja star or throwing star, is a small concealed Japanese throwing blade used to distract, wound, or disarm opponents, mainly at close range.
Shurtan Oil and Gas Field
Shurtan Oil and Gas Field (Sho'rtan; Шуртан) is a giant gas condensate field in southern Uzbekistan, discovered in 1958, producing since 1980, and operated by state company Uzbekneftegaz.
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System is an ensemble of dams, canals, tunnels, and watermills on the Karun River at Shushtar, Iran, completed in the 3rd century CE.
Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field
Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field (Shushufindi-Aguarico) is a giant oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 1969 and producing over 1.3 billion barrels.
Shutdown margin
Shutdown margin is the reactivity by which a nuclear reactor is, or would be, subcritical, assuming all control rods inserted except the highest-worth rod, which is assumed stuck withdrawn.
Shuto Expressway
The Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路), also called the Metropolitan Expressway, is a toll expressway network serving Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, first opened in 1962 and expanded for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly, also known as Shutterfly.com, is an American online service where customers upload photos to create photo books, cards, and gifts. It was founded in 1999 and taken private by Apollo Global Management in 2019.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK), American stock content licensing platform founded 2003, New York; 800 million images, 450,000+ contributors, $989.9M 2025 revenue; Giphy owner; January 2025 merger-of-equals agreement with Getty Images.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were two modified Boeing 747s, NASA 905 and NASA 911, used from 1977 to 2012 to ferry Space Shuttle orbiters piggyback.
Shuttle Landing Facility
The Shuttle Landing Facility is an airport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, built in 1974 to land the Space Shuttle and now operated commercially by Space Florida.
Shuttle system (storage)
A shuttle system is an automated storage and retrieval system in which shuttle carts run on rails within rack levels, moving totes and pallets while lifts handle vertical movement.
Shuttle-C
Shuttle-C was a proposed unmanned, expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle NASA studied in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using Space Shuttle hardware with a cargo carrier in place of the orbiter.
Shuweihat S1 power plant
Shuweihat S1 is a gas-fired power and desalination complex at Jebel Dhanna, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi, delivering 1,500 MW and 100 million gallons of water daily from 2005.
Shuweihat S2 power plant
The Shuweihat S2 power plant is a gas-fired combined-cycle power and seawater desalination plant about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi city, completed in 2011.
Shuweihat S3 power plant
Shuweihat S3 is a 1,600 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant at the Shuweihat complex in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and ADWEA's first independent power project.
Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်)
Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as Shwe Dagon, is a 326-foot gilded Buddhist stupa on Singuttara Hill in Yangon, Myanmar, enshrining relics of four Buddhas including eight hairs of Gotama Buddha.