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  • sheppard's correction — a method of correcting the bias in standard deviations and higher moments of distributions that arises from grouping values of the variable.
  • silicon tetrachloride — a colorless, fuming liquid, SiCl 4 , used chiefly for making smoke screens and various derivatives of silicon.
  • silicon tetrafluoride — a colorless, fuming gas, SiF 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fluosilicic acid.
  • simple actor language — (language)   (SAL) A minimal actor language, used for teaching in:
  • sinusoidal projection — an equal-area projection in which parallels are straight lines spaced at regular intervals, the central meridian is a straight line one-half the length of the equator, and the other meridians are curves symmetrical to the central meridian.
  • siren call/siren song — A siren call or siren song is the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous.
  • snr bandwidth product — (communications)   The integral of the SNR over frequency. The SNR bandwidth product is an important limit in the capacity of a communication channel.
  • social administration — the administration and maintenance of issues to do with social policies and welfare
  • social anthropologist — an anthropologist who deals with cultural and social phenomena such as kinship systems or beliefs, esp of nonliterate peoples
  • social inquiry report — (in Britain) a report on a person and his or her circumstances, which may be required by a court before sentencing and is made by a probation officer or a social worker from a local authority social services department
  • social stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
  • somatotrophic-hormone — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • south pacific current — an ocean current that flows E in the South Pacific Ocean parallel to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • special correspondent — a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone
  • spherical coordinates — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
  • stabilization-process — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • stare one in the face — to be glaringly obvious or imminent
  • stations of the cross — a series of 14 crosses, often accompanied by 14 pictures or carvings, arranged in order around the walls of a church, to commemorate 14 supposed stages in Christ's journey to Calvary
  • statutory corporation — a company or other body set up by statute
  • statutory declaration — a declaration made under statutory authority before a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths which may in certain cases be substituted for a statement on oath
  • stick in one's throat — to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe
  • stock list department — (in an American stock exchange) the department dealing with monitoring compliance with its listing requirements and rules
  • stop loss reinsurance — Stop loss reinsurance is a form of reinsurance under which the reinsurer pays the cedant's losses in any year over a particular percentage of the earned premium.
  • strategic air command — a U.S. Air Force command charged with intercontinental air strikes, especially nuclear attacks.
  • student participation — the extent to which students participate or involve themselves in a class, course, etc
  • subliminal perception — perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness
  • substitution reaction — the replacement of an atom or group of atoms in a compound by another atom or group.
  • suction and curettage — a technique involving extraction of the fetus through a suction tube, used to perform abortions during the early stages of pregnancy.
  • sun protection factor — SPF.
  • supergranulation cell — one of a number of large convection cells in the photosphere and chromosphere of the sun, each having a diameter of 10,000–20,000 miles (16,000–32,000 km) and lasting longer than a day.
  • surface friction drag — the part of the drag on a body moving through a fluid that is dependent on the nature of the surface of the body
  • surface of projection — the surface upon which an image or a set of points is projected.
  • surface of revolution — a surface formed by revolving a plane curve about a given line.
  • sympathetic vibration — a vibration induced by resonance.
  • synchrotron radiation — electromagnetic radiation emitted by charged particles as they pass through magnetic fields.
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • teacher certification — official qualifications for educators
  • teleological argument — the argument purporting to prove the existence of God from empirical facts, the premise being that the universe shows evidence of order and hence design
  • tenure track position — a position or office that carries with it the opportunity to eventually obtain tenure or the right to permanent employment
  • tetrabromofluorescein — eosin (def 1).
  • the acting profession — actors considered as a group
  • the central provinces — the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • the joker in the pack — If you describe someone or something as the joker in the pack, you mean that they are different from the other people or things in their group, and can be unpredictable.
  • the press association — the national news agency for the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • the probation service — a criminal justice service that is mainly responsible for dealing with offenders by placing them under the supervision of a probation officer
  • the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
  • the stationery office — (in the UK) the company that supplies the civil service with all its office supplies, machinery, printing and binding, etc
  • therapeutic community — a group-based form of therapy for mental disorders, sometimes residential
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • ticker-tape reception — (mainly in New York) the showering of the motorcade of a distinguished politician, visiting head of state, etc, with ticker tape as a sign of welcome
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