All articles starting with W

Weiqiao Zouping-1 power station

Weiqiao Zouping-1 power station (魏桥集团邹平新一电) is an ultra-supercritical coal-fired power station in Zouping, Shandong, China, with at least 4,620 MW of captive capacity serving Weiqiao's aluminum operations.

Weiqiao Zouping-3 power station

Weiqiao Zouping-3 power station was a captive coal-fired power station in Zouping, Shandong, China, with eight 150 MW units commissioned between 2006 and 2009 and retired in 2020.

Weiqiao Zouping-7 power station

The Weiqiao Zouping-7 power station, also called the Changshan thermal power plant, is a 2,640 MW coal plant in Zouping, Shandong, China, powering Weiqiao's aluminum smelters.

Oct 10, 2026

Weiqing

Weiqing (惟清, ?–1117), also known as Lingyuan Weiqing, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Huanglong line of the Linji school, abbot of Taiping and then Huanglong monastery.

Weir

A weir, also called a low head dam, is a barrier across a river that lets water flow over its top and raises the upstream water level.

Weir Group

The Weir Group is a Glasgow-based engineering company founded in 1871 that designs and manufactures pumps, valves, and mining technology, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Oct 3, 2026

Weird But True!

Weird But True! is a National Geographic Kids franchise of surprising true facts, spanning a book series begun in 2009 with 300 facts per volume, a 2016 syndicated TV and SiriusXM show hosted by Charlie and Kirby Engelman, and a three-season Disney+ series (2016–2020) that won a 2019 Daytime Emmy.

Weird City (TV series)

Weird City (2019) is a comedy sci-fi anthology series by Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders on YouTube Premium: six half-hour episodes set in the divided metropolis of Weird, where Haves live above the Line and Have Nots below; cancelled after one season.

Weird fiction

Weird fiction is a literary mode blending horror, fantasy, and science fiction in which reality is disrupted by phenomena resisting genre explanation, distinct from cosmic horror, its scale-focused strain, and from the New Weird, its modern descendant.

Weird Science (film)

Weird Science (1985) is a John Hughes teen sci-fi comedy for Universal, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock as Lisa, a computer-created perfect woman; released August 2, 1985, Metascore 46, later a 1994 sitcom.

Weird Tales

Weird Tales, "The Unique Magazine," is the American pulp magazine of horror and weird fiction founded in 1923, ran 279 issues to 1954, launched Lovecraft, Howard, Cthulhu, and Conan, and continues today under Jonathan Maberry.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a 2022 Roku Channel biopic parody of "Weird Al" Yankovic, starring Daniel Radcliffe, directed by Eric Appel, Emmy-winning for Outstanding Television Movie.

Weirdcore

Weirdcore (also Oddcore, Strangecore, Creepycore) is an online aesthetic and art movement of edited, lo-fi, surrealist images evoking confusion, nostalgia, and unease, using red text, eyes, and liminal spaces.

Weirdo-101 (แรงโน้มถ่วงระหว่างเรา)

Weirdo-101 (แรงโน้มถ่วงระหว่างเรา, The Gravity Between Us) is a 2026 GMMTV Thai BL romantic comedy adapted from mostlycloudy's web novel, starring Sea Dechchart as astronomy nerd Cheewa and Keen Suvijak as judo athlete Niran, airing Fridays on one31.

Weirong Shale Gas Field

The Weirong Shale Gas Field (威荣页岩气田) is a deep shale gas field in the Sichuan Basin, China, operated by Sinopec and called China's first deep shale gas field.

Weirton Steel

Weirton Steel was a steel company in Weirton, West Virginia, founded in 1905 and best known for becoming the largest employee-owned company in the United States in 1984.

Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metro Area

Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metro Area (CBSA 48260): cross-state metropolitan statistical area around Weirton, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio; population 112,468 in 2025, a former steel economy now hosting Form Energy's battery plant.

Oct 22, 2026

Weisfeiler-Lehman Network

The Weisfeiler-Lehman Network (WLN) is a graph neural network proposed by MIT researchers at NIPS 2017 that predicts organic reaction products by identifying the reaction center, outperforming template-based methods.

Weisfeiler–Leman test

The Weisfeiler–Leman test, also spelled Weisfeiler–Lehman and abbreviated WL or k-WL, is a family of combinatorial algorithms that iteratively color graph vertices to distinguish non-isomorphic graphs.

Weismann-Netter syndrome

Weismann-Netter syndrome (Weismann-Netter-Stuhl syndrome, toxopachyostéose diaphysaire tibio-péronière, OMIM 112350) is a rare genetic bent bone dysplasia with anterior tibial and fibular bowing, fibular tibialization, posterior cortical thickening, and short stature.

Weiss-Kruszka Syndrome

Weiss-Kruszka syndrome (ZNF462 disorder, metopic ridging-ptosis-facial dysmorphism syndrome) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function ZNF462 variants, with metopic ridging, ptosis, developmental delay, autistic features, and congenital anomalies.

Weissella

Weissella, genus of Gram-positive, heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria (family Leuconostocaceae) named for Norbert Weiss; used in kimchi, cassava, and cocoa fermentation, produces exopolysaccharides and bacteriocins, but is not GRAS and W. confusa is an opportunistic pathogen.

Weissella cibaria

Weissella cibaria (W. kimchii synonym) is a heterofermentative lactic acid bacterium described in 2002, prominent in early kimchi fermentation, used as an oral-care probiotic (strain CMU, FDA GRAS notice 1063), and an opportunistic pathogen.

Weissenberg number

The Weissenberg number (Wi) is a dimensionless number in rheology, the product of a fluid's relaxation time and shear rate, measuring elastic nonlinearity in viscoelastic flows.

Weissenfels

Weißenfels (Weissenfels), Saxony-Anhalt town on the Saale, founded about 1185 by Otto the Rich of Meissen; residence of the dukes of Saxe-Weissenfels 1656–1746 with the Augustusburg palace and princely crypt.

Oct 20, 2026

Weißenkirchen

Weißenkirchen (Weissenkirchen, Weißkirchen, Wißkirchen) names several places and clubs: the Wachau market town in Lower Austria with SC Weißenkirchen (founded 1923) and the 1967 watersports club, SC Wißkirchen Euskirchen (founded 1925), Union Weißkirchen an der Traun, and clubs in Hesse.