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Wafer-scale single-crystal 2D materials
Wafer-scale single-crystal 2D materials are atomically thin crystals, such as graphene and MoS2, grown as continuous single-orientation films across entire semiconductor wafers for device fabrication.
Wafer-scale single-crystal graphene growth
Wafer-scale single-crystal graphene growth is the synthesis of graphene covering an entire semiconductor wafer as one continuous crystal, with no grain boundaries, usually by chemical vapor deposition.
Wafer-scale synthesis of 2D materials
Wafer-scale synthesis of 2D materials is the production of atomically thin films like graphene and MoS2 covering entire semiconductor wafers, a prerequisite for large-scale 2D electronics.
Wafer-scale transfer of two-dimensional materials
Wafer-scale transfer of two-dimensional materials is the set of processes that move atomically thin films, such as graphene or MoS2, from their growth substrate onto full semiconductor wafers.
Wafer-to-wafer bonding
Wafer-to-wafer bonding is a semiconductor manufacturing process that permanently connects two fully processed wafers face-to-face, creating dense vertical interconnects for 3D integration, used in image sensors and 3D NAND flash.
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was the military arm of the Nazi Party's SS, growing to 38 divisions and over a million men. It was involved in major WWII campaigns.
Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts: hundreds of thousands of non-German citizens, from Finland, Norway, France, Wallonia, the Benelux countries, and the Baltic, who served in the SS's military branch during World War II, motivated by ideology, anti-communism, or pressure, and implicated in Holocaust atrocities.
Waffle
Waffle: a batter cake baked in a hinged waffle iron, giving a crisp gridlike surface; also called gaufre. Known for higher sugar and fat than pancake batter, Belgian Brussels and Liege varieties, and frozen Eggos.
Waffle House
Waffle House: 24-hour Southern diner chain founded 1955 in Avondale Estates, Georgia by Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner; over 2,000 restaurants in 25 states, privately held, known for the FEMA Waffle House Index.
Waffle House Index
The Waffle House Index is an informal, color-coded gauge of disaster severity, read from whether local Waffle House restaurants are open, on limited menu, or closed.
Waffle iron
A waffle iron is a cooking device with two hinged, patterned plates that press a grid design into batter as it cooks waffles on both sides at once.
Waffles + Mochi
Waffles + Mochi is a Netflix children's series from Higher Ground Productions, premiered March 16, 2021, in which puppets Waffles and Mochi travel the world learning about food with Michelle Obama; a 2022 spin-off, Waffles + Mochi's Restaurant, followed.
Wafidiyya
The Wafidiyya (الوافدية) were Mongol military refugees who deserted the Ilkhanate for the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, arriving in waves from 1262, including ten thousand Oirats in the 1290s.
Wafik El-Deiry
Wafik S. El-Deiry is an American cancer biologist and oncologist who discovered p21 as a p53-regulated gene and developed the drug dordaviprone, FDA approved in 2025.
Wafra Oil Field
The Wafra Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in the Partitioned Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, discovered in 1953 with nearly 25 billion barrels.
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 Barry Levinson black comedy starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, adapted from Larry Beinhart's American Hero, in which spin doctors fabricate an Albanian war to distract from a presidential sex scandal weeks before the Lewinsky story broke.
Wagah (واہگہ)
Wagah (واہگہ) is a Pakistani Punjab village that names the India-Pakistan border crossing. Known as the Attari-Wagah border, it hosts the daily Beating Retreat ceremony since 1959.
Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド)
Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド, Wagakki Bando) is a Tokyo-formed 2013 eight-piece rock band fusing shigin vocals, koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, and wadaiko with rock; known for the 100-million-view Senbonzakura cover, Oricon No. 1 Yasou Emaki, and its 2024 hiatus.
Wagalla massacre
The Wagalla massacre was the killing of several hundred to several thousand Somali men of the Degodia clan by Kenyan security forces near Wajir in 1984.
Wagamama (わがまま)
Wagamama (わがまま, Japanese for "selfish") is a British pan-Asian restaurant chain founded by Alan Yau in Bloomsbury, London, in 1992, inspired by Tokyo ramen bars; 165 UK and 62 international restaurants as of December 2025, owned by Apollo Global Management.
Wagashi (和菓子)
Wagashi (和菓子) are traditional Japanese confections of plant-based ingredients like adzuki paste, rice flour, and sugar, classified by moisture into fresh, half-fresh, and dry sweets, tied to the tea ceremony, seasons, and annual events.
Wagatha Christie
Wagatha Christie, also called Vardy v Rooney, is the English High Court libel case in which Rebekah Vardy sued Coleen Rooney over a 2019 Instagram leak accusation; Rooney won in July 2022, with Vardy later ordered to pay £1.4 million in costs.
Wage
A wage, also known as a wage rate, is the payment an employee receives from an employer in exchange for labor, whether hourly, by the piece, or as a salary.
Wage indexation
Wage indexation is a legislative or contractual provision automatically linking money wages to a price index such as the CPI, now rare but debated again since 2021.
Wage share
Wage share, also called the labor share of income, is the fraction of a country's income paid to workers as wages, salaries, and benefits, measured against GDP.
Wage slavery
Wage slavery (German Lohnsklaverei) is a pejorative term for workers' dependence on wages, used in American labor rhetoric since the 1830s and by the IWW; contemporary political theory restricts it to dependence of vital needs on employers' will.
Wagenburg
The Wagenburg, Czech vozová hradba, is a field fortification formed by linking war wagons into a defensive circle, perfected by Jan Žižka's Hussites in the early 15th century.
Wager Bay
Wager Bay, Nunavut, a bay on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay, Canada; shores of Ukkusiksalik National Park; site of a 1925 Hudson's Bay Company post and 1742 Middleton exploration.
Wagestream
Wagestream is a London-based financial wellbeing company founded in 2018 that provides earned wage access, savings, and payroll-deducted loans, reaching four million workers before rebranding as Stream in 2025.
WAgg
WAgg, short for WACK Egg, was a Japanese trainee idol group under WACK, active 2018 to 2022, whose members aimed to join acts like BiS and BiSH.