jazz dance: The eagle rock and the slow drag (late 19th century) as well as the Charleston and the jitterbug have elements in common with certain Caribbean and African dances. In addition, the slow drag contributed to the fish of the 1950s; the ring shout, which survived from the 18th into the…

Nancy Huston: …subsequent novels included Virevolte (1994; Slow Emergencies), L’Empreinte de l’ange (1998; The Mark of the Angel), Dolce agonia (2001; Eng. trans. Dolce Agonia), and Danse noire (2013; Black Dance). She won the Prix Femina for Lignes de faille (2006), a translation into French of her novel Fault Lines, originally written…

Berkeley: …now known as the “Slow Food” movement, with her emphasis on fresh, organic, and locally grown foods.

fox-trot, ballroom dance popular in Europe and America since its introduction around 1914. Allegedly named for the comedian Harry Fox, whose 1913 Ziegfeld Follies act included a trotting step, the fox-trot developed less strenuous walking steps for its ballroom version. The music, influenced by

canter, a three-beat collected gait of a horse during which one or the other of the forelegs and both hind legs lead practically together, followed by the other foreleg and then a complete suspension when all four legs are off the ground. Essentially a slow, collected gallop that averages from five

Peter Handke: Novels and other works: Langsame Heimkehr (1979; Slow Homecoming) is a three-part story that culminates with a meditation on fatherhood, and In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus (1997; On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House) follows the life-changing journey of a man made mute by injury.…

Gary Oldman: Darkest Hour, Mank, and Slow Horses: …starred in the TV series Slow Horses (2022– ), playing an ill-tempered spy overseeing a group of disgraced MI5 agents; the show, a comic thriller, was based on a book series by Mick Herron. Oldman was nominated for multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards (2024 and 2025) for his work…

prion: …still are, referred to as slow infections. The pathogenic agent of these diseases does have certain viral attributes, such as extremely small size and strain variation, but other properties are atypical of viruses. In particular, the agent is resistant to ultraviolet radiation, which normally inactivates viruses by destroying their nucleic…

swimming: Instruction and training: In slow interval training, used primarily to develop endurance, the rest period is always shorter than the time taken to swim the prescribed distance. Fast interval training, used primarily to develop speed, permits rest periods long enough to allow almost complete recovery of the heart and…

10 Deadly Animals that Fit in a Breadbox: Slow Loris: The slow loris might look like your favorite teddy bear, but you might want to think twice before cuddling this primate. There are five species of slow loris, ranging to about 14 inches (37 cm) long, all living in Indonesia and on the…

J.M. Coetzee: …a surreal reappearance in Coetzee’s Slow Man (2005), about a recent amputee’s reluctance to accept his condition. Diary of a Bad Year (2007) employs a literally split narrative technique, with the text on the page divided into concurrent storylines, the main story being the musings of an aging South African…

military technology: The first small arms: …these was the development of slow match—or match, as it was commonly called. This was cord or twine soaked in a solution of potassium nitrate and dried. When lit, match smoldered at the end in a slow, controlled manner. Slow match found immediate acceptance among artillerists and remained a standard…

film: Camera movement: …power, and, when combined with slow motion, it may give a somnolent impression or express recollection or hallucination. The camera movement may end dramatically on a dagger, on a gun half-hidden in an assailant’s hand, or on a suspicious bulge in a pocket. It may link the hero walking in…

slow neutron, neutron whose kinetic energy is below about 1 electron volt (eV), which is equal to 1.60217646 10−19 joules. Slow neutrons frequently undergo elastic scattering interactions with atomic nuclei and may in the process transfer a fraction of their energy to the interacting nucleus.

chemical element: Neutron capture: …capture; and the s -process, slow neutron capture. If neutrons are added to a stable nucleus, it is not long before the product nucleus becomes unstable and the neutron is converted into a proton. Outside a nucleus, a neutron decays into a proton and an electron by a process called…

chemical element: Neutron capture: …capture; and the s -process, slow neutron capture. If neutrons are added to a stable nucleus, it is not long before the product nucleus becomes unstable and the neutron is converted into a proton. Outside a nucleus, a neutron decays into a proton and an electron by a process called…

chemical element: Neutron capture: …capture; and the s -process, slow neutron capture. If neutrons are added to a stable nucleus, it is not long before the product nucleus becomes unstable and the neutron is converted into a proton. Outside a nucleus, a neutron decays into a proton and an electron by a process called…

aquarium: Maintenance problems: …the filter material, and a slow sand filter with a large surface area is usually provided to ensure their abundance. Plant growth in the aquarium, especially in marine systems, is not usually sufficient to utilize all the nitrate produced by bacteria from nitrite. Although some aquariums have operated many years…

Pacific Ocean: Geology: …are explained partially by the slow subsidence theory advanced by the English naturalist Charles Darwin during the 19th century and partially by the theory of plate tectonics.

Paul Greengard: …in a signaling process called slow synaptic transmission. Greengard showed that slow synaptic transmission involves a chemical reaction called protein phosphorylation; in that reaction a phosphate molecule is linked to protein, changing the protein’s function. Greengard worked out the signal transduction pathway that begins with dopamine. When dopamine attaches to…

nervous system disease: Slow viruses: Slow virus diseases are caused by infectious agents that cause slowly developing, progressive diseases after a period of latency in the human body. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is characterized by the slowly increasing loss of mental abilities, brief, shocklike jerking of the body, weakness,…

slowworm, (Anguis fragilis), a legless lizard of the family Anguidae. It lives in grassy areas and open woodlands from Great Britain and Europe eastward to the Urals and Caspian Sea. Adults reach 40 to 45 cm (16 to 18 inches) in body length, but the tail can be up to two times the length from snout

softball: …popular variation of softball called slow-pitch may be played with regulation equipment. The major differences from softball (fast-pitch) are that there are 10 members on a team, the pitching distance for men and for women is 46 feet, and a pitched ball must be delivered at moderate speed with an…

wastewater treatment: Land treatment: In the slow-rate, or irrigation, method, effluent is applied onto the land by ridge-and-furrow spreading (in ditches) or by sprinkler systems. Most of the water and nutrients are absorbed by the roots of growing vegetation. In the rapid infiltration method, the wastewater is stored in large ponds…

meat processing: Myoglobin content: These fibres are often called red fibres. Therefore, dark meat colour is a result of a relatively high concentration of slow-twitch fibres in the muscle of the animal.

Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish poet and dramatic author, one of the most important poets of the Romantic period. The son of a university professor, Słowacki was educated in Wilno (now Vilnius), Lithuania, until 1829, when he joined the Department of the Treasury in Warsaw. He was absorbed with

Ada Limón: Full-time poetry career: …took over as host of The Slowdown, a poetry podcast initiated by Tracy K. Smith during her tenure as the 22nd poet laureate of the United States.

SNL Cast Members: 2025– : After the 50th anniversary: …two comedians, Jeremy Culhane and Veronika Slowikowska, were best known as content creators on TikTok and another, Kam Patterson, was a stand-up comic and self-professed Trump supporter associated with the right-leaning comedy scene headed by Tony Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan.

slowworm, (Anguis fragilis), a legless lizard of the family Anguidae. It lives in grassy areas and open woodlands from Great Britain and Europe eastward to the Urals and Caspian Sea. Adults reach 40 to 45 cm (16 to 18 inches) in body length, but the tail can be up to two times the length from snout

history of Saint Lucia: Independence: …elections following independence, the left-leaning Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) defeated the more conservative United Workers’ Party (UWP). The SLP governments favored the socialist regimes of the Caribbean, establishing relations with Cuba and joining the nonaligned movement. They also helped form the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States in 1981.

Daniel De Leon: In 1890 he joined the Socialist Labor Party. Within a few years he became one of the leading figures in the party, editing its newspaper and helping to transform it into a disciplined national organization. He excoriated the labour union leadership of the day as insufficiently radical and in 1895…

Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Presidency: …the presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), a party founded by another brother, Basil. For many Sri Lankans wary of the Sirisena government’s ineffectiveness in addressing the debt crisis, its political instability, and its inability to prevent the 2019 Easter terror attacks on the country, Rajapaksa offered…

technology of photography: The single-lens reflex: The ground-glass screen at the back of the studio, or view, camera slows down picture taking because the screen must be replaced by the film for an exposure. The single-lens reflex camera (Figure 2) has a screen, but the film remains constantly in…

3D printing: A related process is called selective laser sintering (SLS); here the nozzle head and liquid binder are replaced by precisely guided lasers that heat the powder so that it sinters, or partially melts and fuses, in the desired areas. Typically, SLS works with either plastic powder or a combined metal-binder…

Artemis: The Space Launch System (SLS) is one of the largest and most powerful rockets ever built. Its central stage is powered by four liquid-hydrogen–liquid-oxygen engines. Flanking the central stage are two solid rocket boosters that would fall away two minutes after launch. The central stage would…

Slutsk, city, Minsk oblast (region), central Belarus. The city dates from the 12th century and was incorporated in 1795. In the 18th century it was a centre of weaving and other handicrafts, including the working of gold and silver. It now has food, engineering, metalworking, furniture, and linen

sludge, in sewage treatment, solid matter that has settled out of suspension in sewage undergoing sedimentation in tanks or basins. See wastewater

wastewater treatment: Digestion: Sludge digestion is a biological process in which organic solids are decomposed into stable substances. Digestion reduces the total mass of solids, destroys pathogens, and makes it easier to dewater or dry the sludge. Digested sludge is inoffensive, having the appearance and characteristics of…

wastewater treatment: Dewatering: Sludge-drying beds provide the simplest method of dewatering. A digested sludge slurry is spread on an open bed of sand and allowed to remain until dry. Drying takes place by a combination of evaporation and gravity drainage through the sand. A piping network built under…

annelid: Annotated classification: …of genera: Nais, Tubifex (sludge worm). Class Hirudinea (leeches) Primarily freshwater, but also terrestrial and marine forms; small sucker at anterior end, large sucker at posterior end; fixed number of body segments at 34; body cavity filled with connective tissue; hermaphroditic, with fertilized eggs laid in a cocoon secreted…

Linotype: The slugs produced by the machine are rectangular solids of type metal (an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin) as long as the line or column measure selected. Raised characters running along the top are a mirror image of the desired printed line. After hot-metal casting,…

slug, any mollusk of the class Gastropoda in which the shell is reduced to an internal plate or a series of granules or is completely absent. The term generally refers to a land snail. Slugs belonging to the subclass Pulmonata have soft, slimy bodies and are generally restricted to moist habitats

mass: …unit of mass is the slug, a mass whose weight at sea level is 32.17 pounds.

slug caterpillar moth, (family Limacodidae), any of approximately 1,800 species of insects named for the sluglike appearance of their caterpillars. The group is widely distributed throughout the world but are concentrated in the tropics. Some larvae are brightly colored and have stinging hairs

printing: Mechanical composition: slugcasting typesetters: The Linotype and Intertype slugcasting typesetters produce lines of letterpress composition in a single operation, starting with the assembling of the movable matrices. The letter matrices are thin, brass 19 × 32-millimetre (0.7 × 1.3-inch) plates, with two ears and a system of…

canals and inland waterways: Locks: …by manually or mechanically operated sluices. In small canals these may be on the gates, but on larger canals they are on culverts incorporated in the lock structure, with openings into the chamber through the sidewalls or floor. While the sizes of the culverts and openings govern the speed of…

mining: Sluicing: …involves the use of a sluice box. This is a sturdy rectangular box, nearly always built of lumber, with an open top and a bottom roughened by a set of riffles. The most common riffles are transversely mounted wooden bars, but they may also be made of wooden poles, stone,…

canals and inland waterways: Ancient works: …used, including a dam with sluice gates allowing regulation of the flow of the water stored. The Phoenicians, Assyrians, Sumerians, and Egyptians all constructed elaborate canal systems. The most spectacular canal of this period was probably Nahrawān, 122 meters (400 feet) wide and 322 km (200 miles) long, built to…

hydraulic mining: …moving the slurry is called sluicing. Educing is the process of introducing the slurry into an enclosed circuit. In the hydraulic mining of gold the rebounding stream of water and mineral fragments is directed into sluices in which the gold settles behind baffles but the lighter waste matter is washed…

Edward III: Hundred Years’ War: …off the Flemish city of Sluis in June 1340, in which he all but destroyed the French navy. Despite this victory his resources were exhausted by his land campaign, and he was forced to make a truce (which was broken two years later) and return to England. During the years…

slum, Densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization. Rapid industrialization in 19th-century Europe was accompanied by rapid population growth and the concentration of working-class people in overcrowded, poorly

Slumdog Millionaire, British dramatic film, released in 2008 and directed by Danny Boyle, that won eight Academy Awards, including those for best picture and best director, as well as several BAFTA awards and Golden Globe Awards, including those for best film and best director. (Read Martin

slump, in geology, downward intermittent movement of rock debris, usually the consequence of removal of buttressing earth at the foot of a slope of unconsolidated material. It commonly involves a shear plane on which a back-tilting of the top of the slumped mass occurs. The plane is slightly

Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.

sedimentary rock: Deformation structures: structures, (2) convoluted structures, (3) slump structures, (4) injection structures, such as sandstone dikes or sills, and (5) organic structures.

submarine slump, in a submarine canyon or on a continental slope, relatively rapid and sporadic downslope composed of sediment and organic debris that has built up slowly into an unstable or marginally stable mass. The greatest documented distance that an individual slump has transported sediment

Alan Arkin: …movies Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and the TV movie The Pentagon Papers (2003), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

Słupsk, city, Pomorskie województwo (province), northern Poland. It lies along the Słupia River, 11 miles (18 km) from the Baltic coast. A manufacturing centre producing mainly furniture for export, it is situated on the Gdynia-Szczecin railway line. The Museum of Middle Pomerania is a notable

List of Musical Symbols: Slur: A slur is a curved line placed above the notes that connects two or more notes, indicating that they are to be played smoothly, without separation.

slurry, watery mixture or suspension of insoluble matter. In the manufacture of portland cement, a mixture of the raw materials with water is called a slurry. Cement may be piped as a slurry in building construction. Coal may be transported over long distances as a slurry via pipeline; this method

coal mining: Slurry pipelines: So-called heavy coal slurries or slurry fuels consist of 65 to 75 percent coal, with the remainder being water, methanol, or oil. Unlike traditional slurry—which is transported by pipeline to the user, who separates the water from the coal before burning—slurry fuels can be fired directly into boilers.

Slushball Earth hypothesis, in geology and climatology, a counter-premise to the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis. The “Slushball Earth” hypothesis, developed by American geologist Richard Cowen, contends that Earth was not completely frozen over during periods of extreme glaciation in Precambrian

Claus Sluter was an influential master of early Netherlandish sculpture, who moved beyond the dominant French taste of the time and into highly individual monumental, naturalistic forms. The works of Claus Sluter infuse realism with spirituality and monumental grandeur. His influence was extensive

Claus Sluter was an influential master of early Netherlandish sculpture, who moved beyond the dominant French taste of the time and into highly individual monumental, naturalistic forms. The works of Claus Sluter infuse realism with spirituality and monumental grandeur. His influence was extensive

Claus Sluter was an influential master of early Netherlandish sculpture, who moved beyond the dominant French taste of the time and into highly individual monumental, naturalistic forms. The works of Claus Sluter infuse realism with spirituality and monumental grandeur. His influence was extensive

Slutsk, city, Minsk oblast (region), central Belarus. The city dates from the 12th century and was incorporated in 1795. In the 18th century it was a centre of weaving and other handicrafts, including the working of gold and silver. It now has food, engineering, metalworking, furniture, and linen

Irina Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater who dominated women’s figure skating in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Although her career was briefly interrupted by health problems, Slutskaya went on to become the first woman to win seven European championship titles. (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica

In 1337 Edward III of England laid claim to the French throne, thus starting the lengthy series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years’ War. The first major contact between the two sides was the Battle of Sluys, a naval battle fought off the coast of Flanders on June 24, 1340. England’s victory

launch vehicle: India: …1980 using the four-stage solid-fueled Satellite Launch Vehicle 3 (SLV-3), which was developed from the U.S. Scout launch vehicle first used in the 1960s. India did not have a prior ballistic missile program, but parts of the SLV-3 were later incorporated into India’s first IRBM, Agni. The four-stage Polar Satellite…

launch vehicle: India: …1980 using the four-stage solid-fueled Satellite Launch Vehicle 3 (SLV-3), which was developed from the U.S. Scout launch vehicle first used in the 1960s. India did not have a prior ballistic missile program, but parts of the SLV-3 were later incorporated into India’s first IRBM, Agni. The four-stage Polar Satellite…

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: In Sly (1927; based on the opening scenes of The Taming of the Shrew) and in his only tragic opera, I gioielli della Madonna (1911; The Jewels of the Madonna), he was influenced by the realistic, or verismo, style of Pietro Mascagni. He also composed chamber,…

Sly and the Family Stone, American rock and funk band that became widely popular in the late 1960s with a string of anthemlike pop singles, stirring socially relevant albums, and memorable live performances. As a performer, songwriter, and social satirist, bandleader Sly Stone stood among the

Arthur Penn: Films and plays of the 1970s: Scott in the well-received Sly Fox, Larrry Gelbart’s play based on Volpone by Ben Jonson. Penn returned to film work with The Missouri Breaks (1976), a controversial, eccentric, big-budget western with a screenplay by novelist Thomas McGuane and starring Brando as a hired killer toying with a gang of…

Roy Rogers was an American cowboy actor-singer who starred in some 90 motion pictures and over 100 episodes of a weekly television show from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s and reigned as king of the cowboys. The quintessential “good guy in a white hat,” he subdued villains by shooting the guns

slype, in architecture, covered passageway in a medieval English cathedral or monastery. The slype may lead from either the transept or the nave of the church proper to either the chapter house (the monks’ assembly room) or the deanery (the residence of the dean). Most frequently it is adjacent to

samarium (Sm), chemical element, a rare-earth metal of the lanthanide series of the periodic table. Samarium is a moderately soft metal, silvery white in colour. It is relatively stable in air, slowly oxidizing to Sm2O3. It rapidly dissolves in diluted acids—except hydrofluoric acid (HF), in which

sadomasochism, deriving pleasure, often of a sexual nature, from the infliction of physical or psychological pain on another person or on oneself or both. The term is a portmanteau of sadism—deriving pleasure from inflicting pain—and masochism—deriving pleasure in receiving pain. While the public

telecommunications media: Optical fibres: …type of fibre, known as single-mode (SM) fibre, eliminates multimode dispersion by reducing the diameter of the core to a point at which it passes only light rays of the zeroth order mode. Typical SM core diameters are 10 micrometres or less, while standard SI core diameters are in the…

radio telescope: Radio telescope arrays: …Sinica of Taiwan, completed the Submillimeter Array (SMA), located near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at an elevation of 4,080 metres (13,385 feet). This is an eight-element array of 6-metre (20-foot) dishes designed to work at wavelengths as short as 0.3 mm (0.01 inch). A major new international facility—managed…

Fletcher Henderson was an American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz. Henderson was born into a middle-class family; his father was a school principal and his mother a teacher, and he studied piano as a

Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan: …starred them in his show Smackout, based on a grocer who was always smack out of goods but never out of tall tales. In 1935 the show was purchased by Johnson’s Wax. Fibber McGee and Molly made its radio debut on April 16, 1935.

Jurassic Period: North America: The Smackover Formation of the Gulf Coast sequences is a sedimentary unit typical of the Middle Jurassic.

Småland, landskap (province), southern Sweden, extending from the Baltic Sea on the east to the provinces of Halland and Västergötland on the west and from Östergötland on the north to Skåne and Blekinge on the south. Småland is the largest traditional province in southern Sweden and is composed

Stephen Smale is an American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work on topology in higher dimensions. Smale grew up in a rural area near Flint. From 1948 to 1956 he attended the University of Michigan, obtaining B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics. As an

Jacques Santer: …of the SME Union (Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Union), a network of probusiness conservative political organizations overseen by the European People’s Party. After stepping down from that post, he maintained the title of honorary president of the SME Union.

small arm, any handheld firearm. Since the introduction of the flintlock musket in the 17th century, military small arms have gone through a series of significant changes. By employing different projectiles and successively improved chemical propellants, the dual goal of most arms designers has

Steve McQueen: Films: …directed the anthology film series Small Axe (2020) for Amazon. The five installments center on the West Indian community in London.

Nigel Balchin: In The Small Back Room (1943), his best-known novel, Balchin describes the conversation, behaviour, and intrigues for position and power of the “backroom boys” with whom he worked during the war. Almost as successful is Mine Own Executioner (1945), a study of a psychiatrist unable to…

beer: Types of beer: …yielded the poorest-quality beer, called small beer. In the 18th century London brewers departed from this practice and produced porter. Made from a mixture of malt extracts, porter was a strong, dark-coloured, highly hopped beer consumed by the market porters in London. Brewers in Burton upon Trent, using the famous…

small body, any natural solar system object other than the Sun and the major planets and dwarf planets and their satellites (moons). The small bodies populate the solar system in vast numbers and include the mostly rocky asteroids, or minor planets, the predominantly icy comets, and the fragments

You started your own business and feel pretty confident in your professional abilities. But are you equally comfortable keeping your records straight and managing day-to-day financial details, including tracking income, sending invoices, and paying bills? Understanding the basics of small business

Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. federal agency that aids small businesses and assists in economic recovery following disasters. The Small Business Administration (SBA) provides support to prospective entrepreneurs, new start-up businesses, and existing small businesses through a variety

carpenter bee: Unrelated species: …carpenter bees, form the genus Ceratina (tribe Ceratinini). Adults are typically about 6 mm (0.2 inch) long and metallic in coloration. Most are solitary and nest in plant stems, which the female first hollows out and then packs with pollen and eggs. A number of individual cells are placed in…

Alexander Nowell: Nowell’s “Small Catechism,” inserted before the order of confirmation in the Prayer Book of 1549 and supplemented in 1604, remains the official Anglican catechism. He was also the author of a “Larger Catechism” and a “Middle Catechism,” designed for school use, both printed in 1570.

catechism: …any Reformer was Martin Luther’s Small Catechism (1529), which added discussions of baptism and the Eucharist to the usual three subjects. Luther’s Large Catechism (1529) was intended for use by the clergy.

Carol Shields: Her first two novels, Small Ceremonies (1976) and The Box Garden (1977), are interconnected, concerning the choices made by two sisters. In Happenstance (1980) and A Fairly Conventional Woman (1982), Shields used overlapping narratives to escape the strictures of straightforward narrative told from a single perspective. Marketed in Canada…

One of the more sobering things about adulthood is learning about the credit reporting system and how it can impact such a large part of your finances. And it might be even more tangled than you think. Even if you’ve heard of the three major credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—you

measurement system: The Egyptians: …or six palms, were a small cubit.

Neptune: The atmosphere: Two large dark ovals were clearly visible in Voyager images of Neptune’s southern hemisphere. The largest, called the Great Dark Spot because of its similarity in latitude and shape to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, is comparable to Earth in size. It was near this storm system that…

Damon Albarn: …tradition of the Kinks and the Small Faces, on Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Blur achieved a critical and commercial breakthrough with Parklife (1994), a winning collection of pop songs in that vein. By the mid-1990s Blur was a chief exemplar, along with fellow melodic-rock revivalists Oasis, of what was…