S2
Encyclopedia

In the military

  • S-2 (military), a military intelligence officer
  • Soviet submarine S-2
    Soviet submarine S-2
    S-2 was the designation of a Stalinets class submarine of the Soviet Navy. In early 1940, it entered Swedish territorial waters in the Sea of Åland. There it hit a Swedish naval mine, and sank on January 2, 1940. All of the 50 crewmembers on board perished....

    , a Soviet World War II submarine
  • Grumman S-2 Tracker, a US Navy aircraft
  • Finnish torpedo boat S2
    Finnish torpedo boat S2
    S2 was a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat that had been seized from the Russians after the Finnish Civil War 1918. It sank during a fierce storm on October 4, 1925, taking with her the whole crew of 53.-Background:Between 1900 and 1908, the Russians built 25 Sokol class torpedo boats for the...

    , which sank in 1925
  • USS S-2 (SS-106)
    USS S-2 (SS-106)
    USS S-2 was the prototype of the "Lake-type" S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 30 July 1917 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 15 February 1919 sponsored by Mrs. Philip B. Brill, and commissioned on 25 May 1920,...

    , a US Navy submarine
  • a designation for Göta signalregemente
    Göta signalregemente
    Göta signalregemente , designations S 1 Sk and S 2, was a Swedish Army signal regiment, one of the few new formations raised in the 20th century. It was disbanded in 1997...

    , a 1944-1997 Swedish Army signal regiment

Automobiles

  • Audi S2, a turbo-charged sports car
  • Lotus Elise S2, a production series of roadster automobile
  • Porsche 944 S2, a 3l naturally aspirated sports car (mf. 1989-1991)

Aircraft

  • Focke-Wulf S 2
    Focke-Wulf S 2
    |-References:*...

    , a 1928 German trainer aircraft
  • SABCA S-2, a 1926 Belgian aircraft
  • Short S.2, a Short Brothers
    Short Brothers
    Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s...

     aircraft
  • Strojnik S-2
    Strojnik S-2
    |-See also:-External links:*...

    , motorglider

Locomotives

  • Alco S-2, a locomotive
  • PRR S2
    PRR S2
    The Pennsylvania Railroad's class S2 was a steam turbine locomotive. Only one prototype was built, #6200, delivered in 1944. The S2 was the sole example of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, featuring a six-wheel leading truck, eight driving wheels, and a six-wheel trailing truck...

    , a unique steam turbine locomotive
  • Prussian S 2, an 1884 steam locomotives class

Lines and roads

  • S2 (Berlin)
    S2 (Berlin)
    S2 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Bernau to Blankenfelde over:*the Berlin-Szczecin railway, opened on 1 August 1842 and electrified on 8 August 1924,...

    , an S-Bahn line
  • S2 (Dresden), an S-Bahn line
  • S2 (Munich)
    S2 (Munich)
    The S2 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn....

    , an S-Bahn line
  • S2 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), an S-Bahn line
  • a planned Bremen S-Bahn
    Bremen S-Bahn
    The Bremen S-Bahn is an S-Bahn network in Germany, covering the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region, from Bremerhaven in the north to Twistringen in the south and Bad Zwischenahn and Oldenburg in the west. It has been in operation since 2010...

     line
  • a Hamburg S-Bahn
    Hamburg S-Bahn
    The Hamburg S-Bahn is a railway network for public rapid mass transit in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city and the surrounding area...

     line
  • a Hanover S-Bahn
    Hanover S-Bahn
    The Hanover S-Bahn is an S-Bahn network operated by DB Regio in the area of Hanover in the German state capital of Lower Saxony...

     line
  • a Nuremberg S-Bahn line
  • a Rhine-Main S-Bahn
    Rhine-Main S-Bahn
    The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter transport system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt...

     line
  • a RheinNeckar S-Bahn
    RheinNeckar S-Bahn
    The Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn forms the backbone of the urban rail transport network of the Rhine Neckar Area, including the cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen....

     line
  • a Rostock S-Bahn
    Rostock S-Bahn
    The Rostock S-Bahn is an S-Bahn in Rostock, Germany. Opened in 1970, it links Rostock Hauptbahnhof with the coastal suburb of Warnemünde....

     line
  • a Stuttgart S-Bahn
    Stuttgart S-Bahn
    The Stuttgart S-Bahn is a suburban railway system serving the Stuttgart Region, an agglomeration of around 2.6 million people, consisting of the city of Stuttgart and the adjacent districts of Esslingen, Böblingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr. It consists of seven lines numbered S1 through S6 and...

     line
  • a Stadtbahn Karlsruhe
    Stadtbahn Karlsruhe
    The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is a German tram-train system combining tram lines in the city of Karlsruhe with railway lines in the surrounding countryside, serving the entire region of the middle upper Rhine valley and creating connections to neighbouring regions...

     line
  • S2 (ZVV)
    S2 (ZVV)
    The S2 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund , Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich with Schwyz, Glarus and St...

    , a line of the S-Bahn Zürich in Switzerland
  • County Route S2 (California)
  • Expressway S2 (Poland)
    Expressway S2 (Poland)
    Expressway S2 is planned interior bypass expressway in Warsaw and an extension of motorway A2.The road has been planned since the 1970s, initially as part of motorway A2...

    , a southern bypass of Warsaw
  • S2 National Highway, one of the National Highways of Pakistan
  • S2 expressway (Shanghai), an expressway in Shanghai
    Shanghai
    Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

     also known as the Hulu Expressway

In science

  • S2 (star)
    S2 (star)
    S2, also known as S0—2 , is a star that is located close to the radio source Sagittarius A*, orbiting it with an orbital period of 15.56 ± 0.35 years and a pericenter distance of 17 light hours — about 4 times the distance of Neptune from the Sun.Its changing apparent position has been...

    , a star in the center of the Milky Way galaxy
  • S/2007 S 2
    S/2007 S 2
    S/2007 S 2 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on May 1, 2007, from observations taken between January 18 and April 19, 2007....

    , a natural satellite of Saturn
  • British NVC community S2, a swamps and tall-herb fens community in the British National Vegetation Classification system
    Swamps and tall-herb fens in the British National Vegetation Classification system
    This article gives an overview of the swamp and tall-herb fen communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.-Introduction:The swamp and tall-herb fen communities of the NVC were described in Volume 4 of British Plant Communities, first published in 1995, along with the...

    , an allotrope of sulfur

Businesses

  • S2 Records
    S2 Records
    S2 Records, formerly named Sony Soho Square after its location at London's Soho Square, is a record label subsidiary of Sony Music.Lincoln Elias, currently Managing Director of Virgin Records, was the founder of the label. It is now headed by Muff Winwood, brother of Steve Winwood.S2 features...

    , a subsidiary of Sony Music
  • S2, a former Scottish television channel
  • S2 Games
    S2 Games
    S2 Games is a video game developer founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, based in Rohnert Park, California.They also have a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their first project , Savage: The Battle for Newerth, was released in the Summer of 2003...

    , a video game developer
  • S2 Yachts
    S2 Yachts
    The sailboat building division of Tiara Yachts located in Holland, Michigan . S2 sailboats were built from 1974 through 1987- S2 Models : Various pictures of S2 sailboats can bee seen .-External links:* * * * * *...

    , a now-defunct sailboat-building company
  • S2 Security Corporation, an IP-based security product manufacturer

Cameras

  • Canon PowerShot S2 IS, a 2005 5.0 megapixel digital camera
  • FinePix S2 Pro
    FinePix S2 Pro
    The Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro is an interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera introduced in January 2002. It is based on a Nikon F80 film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own proprietary image sensor and electronics. Because of the Nikon body, it has a Nikon F...

    , a 2002 interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera by Fuji
  • Nikon Coolpix S2
    Nikon Coolpix S2
    The Coolpix S2 is a digital camera branded by Nikon. Its image sensor is a CCD with 5.4 million total pixels. It has a 2.5-inch thin-film transistor liquid crystal display device with 110,000 pixels....

    , a 5.4 million pixel digital camera

Other

  • S2 programming language
    S2 programming language
    S2 is an object-oriented programming language developed in the late 1990s by Brad Fitzpatrick, Martin "Mart" Atkins, and others for the online journaling service LiveJournal in order to allow users full control over the appearance of their pages...

  • S2 Spreadsheet
    S2 Spreadsheet
    S2 Spreadsheet was a Lotus 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet developed by IBM in 1984. It had all the features of Lotus 1-2-3, plus it had an ability to connect to IBM mainframes via TCP/IP and pull data from IBM databases such as IBM DB2 and IBM SQL/DS...

  • S2: Keep out of the reach of children, a safety phrase in chemistry
  • a district of the S postcode area
    S postcode area
    The S postcode area, also known as the Sheffield postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Barnsley, Chesterfield, Dronfield, Hope Valley, Mexborough, Rotherham, Sheffield and Worksop in England....

    , covering areas of eastern Sheffield
  • a heart emoticon
    Emoticon
    An emoticon is a facial expression pictorially represented by punctuation and letters, usually to express a writer’s mood. Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text. The word is a portmanteau word...

  • an abbreviation for a standard single carriageway
    Single carriageway
    A single carriageway is a road with 1, 2 or more lanes arranged within a single carriageway with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic. Two-lane road or two-lane highway are single carriageway with one lane for each direction...

     road, with a single lane going in each direction

Acronyms

  • Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

     aircraft registration code
  • JetLite IATA airline designator
  • sacral spinal nerve 2
    Sacral spinal nerve 2
    The sacral spinal nerve 2 is a spinal nerve of the sacral segment..It originates from the spinal column from below the 2nd body of the sacrum -Muscles:...

    , a spinal nerve of the sacral segment
  • Schedule 2, an Australian legal category assigned to drugs
  • second sacral vertebrae
  • second year
    Second year
    Second year, also known as S2, is the second year of schooling in Scottish secondary schools, and is roughly equivalent to Year 9 in England and Wales and Year 10 in Northern Ireland. Most pupils are 13 or 14 years old at the end of S2....

     in the Scottish education system
  • a version of the racing simulation Live for Speed
    Live for Speed
    Live for Speed is a racing simulator developed by a three person team comprising Scawen Roberts, Eric Bailey, and Victor van Vlaardingen. The main focus is to provide a realistic racing experience for the online multiplayer game and to allow single player races against AI cars...


With superscripts and subscripts

S2 may refer to:
  • S2, a sound in cardiac auscultation
  • disulfur
    Disulfur
    Disulfur is the diatomic molecule with the formula S2. It is analogous to the dioxygen molecule but rarely occurs at room temperature. This violet gas is commonly generated by heating sulfur above 720 °C and comprises 99% of vapor species at low pressure at 530 °C. S2 is one of minor components...

    , an allotrope of sulfur


S2 may refer to:
  • The two-dimensional sphere
    Sphere
    A sphere is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in two dimensions, a perfect sphere is completely symmetrical around its center, with all points on the surface lying the same distance r from the center point...

  • S² Engine, the SuperSolenoid engine of Neon Genesis Evangelion

S02

  • The special orthogonal group of a two-dimensional vector space
  • ATC code S02
    ATC code S02
    -S02AA Anti-infectives:-S02AA Anti-infectives:-S02AA Anti-infectives::S02AA01 Chloramphenicol:S02AA02 Nitrofural:S02AA03 Boric acid:S02AA04 Aluminium acetotartrate:S02AA05 Clioquinol:S02AA06 Hydrogen peroxide:S02AA07 Neomycin:S02AA08 Tetracycline...

     Otologicals, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
  • HMS Rorqual (S02)
    HMS Rorqual (S02)
    HMS Rorqual was a Porpoise-class submarine launched in 1956. She was built by the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The boat was named for both the Rorqual whale and the earlier Second World War-era submarine of the same name.In 1958, Rorqual experienced a fire. In 1963,...

    , a 1956 British Royal Navy Porpoise-class submarine
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