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Wadjda (وجدة)
Wadjda (وجدة), 2012 comedy-drama by Haifaa Al Mansour; first feature shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and first by a Saudi woman director; a Riyadh girl enters a Quran recitation contest to buy a green bicycle; Venice premiere, BAFTA-nominated.
Wadjet
Wadjet (Wadjit, Uto, Buto) is the ancient Egyptian cobra goddess, protective deity of Lower Egypt and one of the Two Ladies with Nekhbet. Her uraeus adorned the king's brow; her cult center was Buto (Per-Wadjet) in the Delta.
Wadjkare
Wadjkare, meaning "Fresh Is Ka of Re," is the throne name of a poorly attested Egyptian king traditionally assigned to the 8th Dynasty, known mainly from three inscriptions.
Wadjmose
Wadjmose was a prince of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a son of King Thutmose I who died during his father's reign without reaching the throne, and is known from the El Kab tomb of his tutor Paheri.
Wadsleyite
Wadsleyite is a high-pressure polymorph of olivine that dominates the upper mantle transition zone at 410 to 520 km depth and can store up to 3.3 wt% water.
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum (now branded The Wadsworth) is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut, founded 1842, opened 1844; the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the United States, with about 50,000 works in five connected buildings.
Wael Kfoury
Wael Kfoury (وائل كفوري), born Michel Émile Kfoury in 1974, is a Lebanese singer and songwriter known across the Arab world as "The King of Romance" for his ballad style.
Wael Mohya
Wael Mohya (born 2008, Mettmann) is a German-Moroccan attacking midfielder for Borussia Mönchengladbach; youngest-ever Gladbach player and goalscorer, third-youngest Bundesliga scorer.
Waf (build automation tool)
Waf is a build automation tool written in Python that configures, builds, and installs projects from wscript files, executing tasks in parallel; it began as a fork of SCons.
Wafa-Mellitah Gas Pipeline
The Wafa-Mellitah Gas Pipeline is a 32-inch natural gas pipeline in western Libya carrying gas from the Wafa desert field to Mellitah on the Mediterranean coast for export.
Wafa'iyya
The Wafa'iyya (الطريقة الوفائية) was a Sufi order of Egypt formed in the fourteenth century around the Cairo shaykhs Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, surviving into the nineteenth century.
Wafaa El-Sadr
Wafaa El-Sadr is an Egyptian-born American physician and epidemiologist at Columbia University who founded ICAP, led HIV treatment programs across Africa, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Wafaie Fawzi
Wafaie Fawzi is a Sudanese-born physician and epidemiologist, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard, known for randomized trials showing multivitamins improve outcomes in pregnant Tanzanian women.
Wafaiyya of Damascus
The Wafaiyya of Damascus is a branch of the Sa'diyya Sufi order, a Syrian, Shafi'i tariqa popular among the middle and lower classes and still active today.
Wafangdian
Wafangdian (瓦房店市) is a county-level city of Dalian, Liaoning, on the Liaodong Peninsula; birthplace of China's bearing industry (ZWZ, founded 1938), 3,793 km², 905,082 residents (2020 census), 2023 GDP 113.56 billion yuan.
Wafayat al-Ayan
Wafayat al-Ayan (وفيات الأعيان) is an Arabic biographical dictionary compiled by the judge Ibn Khallikan, completed in 1274 with about 850 biographies of famous Muslims.
Wafd Party
The Wafd Party (حزب الوفد) was an Egyptian nationalist party founded by Sa'd Zaghlul in 1918 to demand independence from Britain; it dominated Egyptian politics until its dissolution in 1953.
Wafer
Wafer: a thin crisp baked good from batter between hot plates, also a US thin cookie, the Eucharist host, and a semiconductor slice; 2.5 mm thick, 1–2% moisture.
Wafer (electronics)
A wafer, typically a silicon wafer, is a thin crystalline disc sliced from an ingot, polished, and built up with circuit layers in hundreds of fabrication steps before being diced into individual chips.
Wafer bonding
Wafer bonding is a microfabrication technique that permanently joins two or more wafer substrates, typically by direct fusion, anodic, or intermediate-layer bonding, to build devices and packages.
Wafer bumping
Wafer bumping is the semiconductor packaging process that forms metal bumps, typically solder or copper pillar, on wafer bond pads before dicing, enabling flip-chip connections; IBM introduced it in 1965.
Wafer cleaning
Wafer cleaning is the set of wet and dry processes that remove particles, metallic contamination, and residues from semiconductor wafers during fabrication, most famously the RCA clean of 1965.
Wafer dicing
Wafer dicing is the semiconductor manufacturing step that cuts a processed wafer into individual integrated circuit dies, and the first operation of back-end assembly before die bonding.
Wafer fab equipment
Wafer fab equipment (WFE) is the machinery that turns bare silicon wafers into integrated circuits, making up about 90% of the 2023 semiconductor equipment market.
Wafer prober
A wafer prober is a semiconductor manufacturing machine that automatically positions a wafer under a probe card so each die can be electrically tested before packaging.
Wafer yield
Wafer yield is the fraction of dies on a processed semiconductor wafer meeting all electrical and functional specifications, and it is the primary economic metric of a semiconductor process.
Wafer-level chip scale packaging
Wafer-level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) is a semiconductor packaging technology in which solder balls and interconnects are formed at wafer level, giving a finished package the size of the die.
Wafer-level packaging
Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is a semiconductor packaging method in which interconnects and protection are built on the wafer before singulation, making packaging cost independent of die count.
Wafer-scale growth of MoS2
Wafer-scale growth of MoS2 is the deposition of molybdenum disulfide, a two-dimensional semiconductor, as a continuous film over a whole wafer for transistor and circuit fabrication.
Wafer-scale integration
Wafer-scale integration (WSI) is a semiconductor manufacturing approach that turns an entire silicon wafer into a single integrated system, with inevitable defects routed around in design.