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ST, St, or St. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Stanza, in poetry
  • Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise
  • Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy and theology by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • St or St., abbreviation of "State", especially in the name of a college or university

Businesses and organizations

Transportation

  • Germania (airline) (IATA airline designator ST)
  • Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated as State Transport
  • Sound Transit, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Washington state, US
  • Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont) (railroad reporting mark ST)
  • Suffolk County Transit, or Suffolk Transit, the bus system serving Suffolk County, New York

Other businesses and organizations

  • Statstjänstemannaförbundet, or Swedish Union of Civil Servants, a trade union
  • STMicroelectronics, a worldwide manufacturer of semiconductors

Geography

Language and typography

  • Sesotho language (ISO 639-1 language code "st")
  • ſt, or st, a typographic ligature
  • Standard Theory in generative grammar

Science and technology

Computing

  • ST connector, a type of optical fiber connector
  • Atari ST, a personal computer
  • Prefix of hard disk drives made by Seagate Technology, e.g. ST-506
  • Internet Stream Protocol, an experimental Internet protocol
  • Structured text, a high-level programming language that syntactically resembles Pascal and is designed for programmable logic controllers (PLC)
  • .st, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for São Tomé and Príncipe
  • St (terminal emulator), minimalist terminal emulator by suckless.org

Mathematics

  • Standard part function, a term used in non-standard analysis

Physics

  • Stanton number St, used in physics
  • Strouhal number St, used in fluid mechanics
  • String theory

Units of measurement

  • Stokes (unit) (St), a CGS unit of kinematic viscosity
  • Stone (weight) (st.), a unit of mass used in the British Isles and other countries

Medicine

  • ST segment, the part of an electrocardiogram connecting the QRS complex and the T wave
  • Sulfotransferase, enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a sulfo group
  • Heat-stable enterotoxin, secretory peptides produced by some bacterial strains, such as enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Other uses

  • -st, a suffix for an ordinal number, such as 1st or 21st
  • Saint (St or St.), especially in Christianity
  • Scheduled Tribes, in India
  • Ship prefix for a steam tug
  • Sine tempore (s.t.), Latin term indicating that a lecture will begin at the exact time; see Academic quarter (class timing)
  • Striker (association football), a position in association football
  • ST, a type of London bus

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: ST para niños

  • STST (disambiguation)
  • STFC (disambiguation) for uses of ST F.C.
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