61,984 articles
SMOTE
SMOTE, the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique, is a machine learning preprocessing method that balances imbalanced classification datasets by generating synthetic minority-class examples through interpolation, introduced by Chawla and colleagues in 2002.
SMPTE color bars
SMPTE color bars, also known as color bars or NTSC color bars, are a television test pattern developed at CBS Laboratories in the 1970s for aligning NTSC video signals and calibrating picture monitors.
SMR-160
The SMR-160, originally named HI-SMUR, is a 160 MWe small modular pressurized water reactor with passive safety systems, designed by Holtec International and cooled entirely by natural circulation rather than pumps.
SMS
SMS (Short Message Service) is a text messaging service of mobile networks, developed in the 1980s as part of the GSM standard and limited to 160 characters per message.
SMS Cap Trafalgar
SMS Cap Trafalgar, also known as Cap Trafalgar, was a German ocean liner converted into an auxiliary cruiser and sunk by HMS Carmania in 1914.
SMS Goeben
SMS Goeben, later Yavuz Sultan Selim, was a German Moltke-class battlecruiser whose 1914 escape to Constantinople helped bring the Ottoman Empire into World War I.
SMS group
SMS group is a German engineering company headquartered in Mönchengladbach that designs and builds plants for iron and steelmaking, nonferrous metals, and lithium-ion battery recycling.
SMS language
SMS language, also called texting language or textese, is the abbreviated spelling, acronyms, and emoticons used in text messages, which arose from the SMS limit of 160 characters.
SMS/800
SMS/800, now operated as the TFNRegistry, is the centralized database for all toll-free numbers in the North American Numbering Plan, storing their assignment status, Resp Org records, and carrier routing information.
Smulders (company)
Smulders is a Belgian steel construction company headquartered in Arendonk, specializing in foundations and substations for offshore wind farms and part of France's Eiffage Group since 2013.
Smule
Smule is an American social music technology company founded in 2008 by Jeff Smith and Ge Wang, known for its Sing! Karaoke app where users record solo, duet, and group performances.
Smurfit Kappa
Smurfit Kappa was an Irish paper and packaging manufacturer formed in 2005 by the merger of Jefferson Smurfit Group with Kappa Packaging, headquartered in Dublin.
Snail cam
The snail cam, also called a drop cam, is a radial cam with a spiral edge that lifts a follower slowly and drops it suddenly, driving punches and hammers.
Snail darter controversy
The snail darter controversy was a 1970s legal conflict in which the endangered snail darter fish halted the nearly completed Tellico Dam in Tennessee until Congress exempted it in 1979.
Snail trail
A snail trail, also called a snail track, is a dark worm-like discoloration of the silver grid fingers on silicon solar cells, usually along invisible microcracks.
Snake case
Snake case, often written snake_case, is a naming convention that joins words with underscores and lowercase letters, as in first_name, and is the dominant convention in Python and Rust.
Snake optimizer
The snake optimizer, also known as snake optimization, is a swarm-based metaheuristic for continuous optimization introduced in 2022, modeling snake foraging, fighting, and mating behavior to search for optimal solutions.
Snake-arm robot
A snake-arm robot, also called a continuum robot, is a long, slender robotic arm of many jointed segments that can follow curving paths through confined spaces.
Snap (software)
Snap is a self-contained Linux package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, bundling an application with most dependencies in a sandbox with automatic updates.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat Inc., is an American technology company in Santa Monica, California. It operates Snapchat, went public on the NYSE in 2017, and develops AR hardware including Spectacles.
Snap Specs
Snap Specs are standalone augmented reality glasses from Snap's subsidiary Specs Inc., unveiled in June 2026 as the sixth-generation Spectacles line, priced at $2,195 with fall 2026 shipping.
Snap-on
Snap-on, also known as Snap-on Tools, is an American manufacturer of professional hand tools, diagnostics, and tool storage, founded in Milwaukee in 1920 and headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app from Snap Inc., launched in 2011, in which photos and videos called Snaps are deleted after being viewed by default.
Snapchat My AI
Snapchat My AI is a chatbot assistant built into Snapchat by Snap Inc., powered by OpenAI models, launched in 2023 and free for all users since April 2023.
Snapchat+
Snapchat+ is a paid subscription tier for the Snapchat messaging app, launched by Snap Inc. in June 2022 for $3.99 per month, with over 25 million subscribers by 2026.
Snapdeal
Snapdeal, also known as Snapdeal.com, is an Indian e-commerce marketplace for affordable fashion, home, and lifestyle goods, founded in 2010 by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal.
Snapdragon 8 Elite
The Snapdragon 8 Elite, model SM8750, is a flagship Qualcomm mobile system-on-a-chip announced in October 2024, the first Snapdragon built on Qualcomm's custom Oryon CPU cores.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is a premium Qualcomm mobile processor announced in November 2022, used in flagship Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S23 and OnePlus 11.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is a premium mobile system-on-a-chip announced by Qualcomm in October 2023, its first platform designed around on-device generative AI, powering 2024 flagship Android phones.
Snapdragon X Elite
Snapdragon X Elite is a 4 nm Arm-based Qualcomm chip for Windows laptops, announced in 2023 and shipped from mid-2024 with a 12-core Oryon CPU and 45 TOPS NPU.