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Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge
The Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge, also called the Riverview Bridge, is a four-lane, toll-free cable-stayed bridge over the Fraser River between Surrey and New Westminster, British Columbia, opened in 2026.
Stalinist architecture
Stalinist architecture, also known as the Stalinist Empire style or socialist classicism, dominated Soviet building from the 1930s to the early 1950s, blending classical composition with rich ornament.
Stalinka
Stalinka (сталинка) is the colloquial name for Soviet apartment buildings built under Stalin, roughly 1935–1955: brick construction, high ceilings, spacious flats, elite and ordinary types, ended by Khrushchev's 1955 anti-excess decree.
Stall protection system
A stall protection system is an aircraft installation that warns of an approaching aerodynamic stall with a stick shaker and, if unheeded, prevents it with a nose-down stick pusher.
Stall regulation
Stall regulation limits a wind turbine's power output through aerodynamic stall: as wind speed rises, airflow separates from the blade, reducing lift without blade pitch control.
Stall warning system
A stall warning system is an aircraft installation alerting the crew as angle of attack nears the stall, ranging from simple horns to stick shakers and pushers.
Stampede3
Stampede3 is a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, serving as the NSF ACCESS ecosystem's primary open-science resource since 2024.
Stamping (metalworking)
Stamping, or metal stamping, is a cold metalworking process in which sheet metal is shaped, cut, or formed between a die and the slide of a mechanical or hydraulic press.
STANAG 4569
STANAG 4569 is a NATO standard defining graduated protection levels for occupants of armored vehicles against ballistic, artillery, grenade, mine, and IED threats, first issued in 1999.
STANAG magazine
The STANAG magazine, also called a NATO or M16 magazine, is a detachable firearm magazine for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition, patterned on the M16 rifle's magazine after a 1980 NATO proposal.
Stance detection
Stance detection is a natural language processing task that classifies a text's attitude toward a supplied target as favorable, unfavorable, or neither, unlike general sentiment analysis.
Stand guidance system
A stand guidance system guides pilots taxiing onto an airport parking stand, most commonly the visual docking guidance system showing azimuth alignment and the precise stop position.
Standalone 5G
Standalone 5G (5G SA) is a mobile network architecture in which 5G radio operates over a dedicated 5G core, enabling network slicing and lower latency.
Standard Building Code
The Standard Building Code was a model building code published by SBCCI of Birmingham, Alabama, and used across the southeastern United States until it was replaced by the International Building Code in 2000.
Standard Carrier Alpha Code
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a unique two-to-four-letter code identifying transportation companies, issued by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association and required in US Customs filings.
Standard Contractual Clauses
Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) are pre-approved model clauses adopted by the European Commission that let companies transfer personal data outside the EEA without separate regulatory approval.
Standard Generalized Markup Language
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is an ISO standard, ISO 8879:1986, defining document structure through user-defined markup; it is the metalanguage from which HTML and XML are derived.
Standard instrument departure
A standard instrument departure (SID) is a preplanned IFR departure route, published in graphic form, linking a runway with the en route structure; it requires ATC clearance.
Standard Method of Measurement
The Standard Method of Measurement (SMM) is a British set of rules for measuring building work in bills of quantities, first issued in 1922 by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Standard Missile
The Standard Missile is a family of ship-launched guided missiles that serves as the United States Navy's primary air-defense weapon, fielded aboard Aegis cruisers and destroyers since the late 1960s.
Standard ML
Standard ML (SML) is a strictly evaluated functional programming language with type inference and a formal specification, The Definition of Standard ML, first published in 1990.
Standard motorcycle
A standard motorcycle, often called a naked bike or roadster, is a road motorcycle with an upright riding position, waist-height handlebars, and little or no fairing.
Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio)
Standard Oil of Ohio, known as Sohio, was an American petroleum company in Cleveland, BP's principal United States arm from 1969 until the brand retired in 1991.
Standard RAID levels
The standard RAID levels are numbered configurations, RAID 0 through RAID 6, that combine disk drives into arrays, each trading off performance, capacity, and drive-failure tolerance. They were classified at UC Berkeley in 1988.
Standard Solar
Standard Solar is an American commercial and community solar developer, financier, and asset owner in Rockville, Maryland, founded in 2004 and owned by Brookfield Renewable since 2022.
Standard step method
The standard step method is an iterative procedure that solves the one-dimensional energy equation step by step between cross sections to compute water surface profiles in open channels.
Standard streams
Standard streams, also called standard channels, are the three predefined input and output channels (stdin, stdout, and stderr) that every running process receives, corresponding to file descriptors 0, 1, and 2.
Standard Template Library
The Standard Template Library, or C++ STL, is a generic C++ library of containers, algorithms, and iterators designed by Alexander Stepanov and Meng Lee at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Standard terminal arrival route
A standard terminal arrival route (STAR) is a preplanned IFR air traffic control arrival procedure guiding aircraft from the en route structure to an approach fix.
Standard time
Standard time is the official local clock time of a region when daylight saving time is not in use, first adopted by US and Canadian railroads in 1883.