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Star profile
A diagram with an axis for each sensory attribute, on which scores are plotted and joined to show a food’s sensory profile.
Star system
The promotion of recognisable performers as stars whose public image and popularity help attract audiences to films.
START
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty: an agreement to reduce strategic nuclear weapons. START I was signed by the USA and Soviet Union in 1991.
Starter culture
Selected microorganisms added to food to bring about a controlled fermentation, for example bacteria used to make yoghurt.
Starting material
A substance used at the beginning of a manufacturing process to make a product.
Starting value
The value supplied before the repeated process begins, usually written as .
Star topology
A network arrangement in which each device has its own connection to a central device, usually a switch.
Start-up
A business that is being established or has recently begun operating.
Start-up
A newly established business developing an idea with the potential to grow into a profit-making business.
Start-up finance
Money needed to establish a new business and cover initial costs before sufficient money comes in from sales.
Stasi
East Germany’s state security service, which used surveillance, informants and imprisonment to identify and suppress opposition.
State
The institutions through which a country is governed and authority is exercised, including law-making and law-enforcement bodies.
State
One distinct combination of bit values. A pattern of bits has possible states.
State
The institutions through which society is governed, including those that make and enforce laws.
State cult
Religious worship and rituals performed on behalf of the Roman community, rather than solely for an individual household.
State intervention
Government action that influences or regulates people's lives, including decisions about family size.
Statement of financial position
A financial statement showing a business’s assets, liabilities and equity at a particular date; also called a balance sheet.
Statement scale
A scale written in words, such as “1 cm represents 5 km”.
State of Emergency
A period in which a government claims exceptional powers, restricting normal legal protections and civil liberties.
State of matter
One of the physical forms in which a substance exists: solid, liquid or gas.
State of matter
A physical form in which a substance exists, such as solid, liquid or gas.
State of matter
A physical form of a substance, such as solid, liquid or gas.
State Opening of Parliament
The ceremony marking the start of a parliamentary session, at which the monarch delivers a speech setting out the government’s legislative plans.
State Pension age
The age at which a person becomes eligible to receive the State Pension; it is not necessarily the age at which they stop working.
State police force
An organised police force established under public authority, rather than relying mainly on unpaid local residents or private law-enforcers.
State school
A government-funded school that does not charge tuition fees.
Statesman
A person skilled in governing and directing the affairs of a community.
States’ rights
The principle that individual states possess powers to manage their own affairs rather than having all decisions made by the national government.
State’s standard of poverty
A poverty threshold based on entitlement to state benefits and the benefit levels set by government.
State standard of poverty
A poverty standard set by the government. In Townsend’s study, it was based on entitlement to claim certain benefits.
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