All articles starting with W

WeTransfer

WeTransfer is a Dutch file-sharing service for sending large files, launched in Amsterdam in 2009 by Bas Beerens and Nalden and owned by Bending Spoons since 2024.

Wetsuit: neoprene garment trapping a body-warmed water layer for cold-water insulation, invented by Hugh Bradner (1951, UC Berkeley), never patented; 3–7 mm thickness by temperature, loses about 21.5% insulation at 5 m depth.

Wettability

Wettability is a solid surface's affinity for a liquid, quantified by the contact angle (Young 1805). Hydrophilic below 90 degrees, hydrophobic above; hysteresis, superhydrophobic thresholds, and reservoir, implant, and coating applications.

Wetting

Wetting is the study of how a liquid deposited on a solid substrate spreads, governed by intermolecular forces, as when water beads on plastic but spreads on clean glass.

Wetting the hull

Wetting the hull, more commonly called a wetting down or wetting-down party, is a naval celebration in which shipmates douse a newly promoted officer with water.

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Weval

Weval are an Amsterdam electronic music duo formed by Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers in 2010, known for albums on Kompakt and Ninja Tune's Technicolour.

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Weverse

Weverse (위버스) is a global fan platform launched in 2019 by beNX, a subsidiary of South Korean entertainment firm HYBE, combining artist posts, paid messaging, shopping, and ticketing.

Weverton

Weverton (Weverton Pereira da Silva), Brazilian goalkeeper born 1987 in Rio Branco, Acre; Rio 2016 Olympic gold medalist who saved Nils Petersen's penalty in the final, Palmeiras record holder, Grêmio keeper, and Brazil's 2026 World Cup squad member.

WeWALK

WeWALK is a smart cane for blind and visually impaired people, pairing a conventional white cane with a sensor handle that adds obstacle detection, navigation, and transit information.

Wewelsburg

Wewelsburg, also known as Wewelsburg Castle, is a triangular Renaissance castle near Büren in Germany, built 1603–1609 and later used by Heinrich Himmler as an SS meeting place.

WeWork

WeWork, also known as The We Company, is a commercial workspace provider that leases and manages flexible office space, peaking at a $47 billion valuation in 2019 before filing for bankruptcy in 2023.

Wexford

Wexford (Loch Garman), county town of County Wexford, Ireland; Viking-founded port town, population 21,524 in 2022, largest town in its county, average age 40.6, Key Town in the Southern Region RSES.

WEY Gaoshan

The WEY Gaoshan (魏牌高山) is a series of luxury plug-in hybrid MPVs built by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor under its premium WEY brand, launched in 2023.

WEY Lanshan

The WEY Lanshan (魏牌蓝山), sold abroad as the Wey 07, is a mid-to-large six-seat plug-in hybrid SUV made by Wey, the premium SUV brand of Great Wall Motor.

Weybridge

Weybridge, Surrey town in Elmbridge where the River Wey meets the Thames; home of Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit (1907) and a major British aviation site, first English town wholly lit by electricity (1890).

Weyburn Midale Oil Pool

The Weyburn Midale Oil Pool is a pair of large adjacent oil fields in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered in 1953 and 1954 in Mississippian carbonate rocks.

Weyburn-Midale Carbon Dioxide Project

The Weyburn-Midale Carbon Dioxide Project was a research program that studied CO2 injection and geological storage in two depleted Saskatchewan oilfields alongside enhanced oil recovery from 2000 to 2012.

Weycock Hill (temple)

The Weycock Hill temple is a rare polygonal Romano-Celtic temple in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, built as two concentric octagonal walls and excavated in 1847.

Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser is an American timberland and forest products company founded in Washington in 1900, the largest private timberland owner in North America with over 10 million US acres.

Weyes Blood

Weyes Blood is the musical project of American singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, known for orchestral folk-pop and the acclaimed albums Titanic Rising (2019) and And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022).

Weyl (lunar crater)

Weyl is an IAU-adopted impact crater on the far side of the Moon, 122.82 km in diameter, centered at 15.97°N, 120.53°W, recorded as Gazetteer feature ID 6528.

Weyl algebra

The Weyl algebra, denoted A_n(K), is the non-commutative algebra of differential operators with polynomial coefficients, named for Hermann Weyl, central to D-module theory and quantum mechanics.

Weyl character formula

The Weyl character formula, also known as the Weyl formula, expresses the character of any irreducible representation of a semisimple Lie algebra as a quotient of alternating sums over the Weyl group.

Weyl fermion

A Weyl fermion is a massless fermion with definite chirality, derived by Hermann Weyl in 1929; never seen as an elementary particle, it was detected in 2015 as quasiparticles in the semimetal tantalum arsenide.

Weyl group

The Weyl group is the finite group of symmetries of a root system, generated by reflections, and central to the representation theory of Lie groups.

Weyl group of a Kac–Moody algebra

The Weyl group of a Kac–Moody algebra is the Coxeter group generated by simple reflections on the dual Cartan subalgebra, finite exactly when the algebra has finite type.

Weyl magnons

Weyl magnons are bosonic quasiparticles, quanta of spin waves in magnetic materials, that behave like Weyl fermions at topologically protected crossings of two magnon bands, first predicted in ferromagnetic pyrochlores in 2016.

Weyl metrics

Weyl metrics are the family of static axisymmetric exact solutions of the vacuum Einstein field equations, found by Hermann Weyl in 1917 and reducible to the Laplace equation.

Weyl orbit

A Weyl orbit is a closed electron orbit in Weyl or Dirac semimetals, linking Fermi arcs on opposite sample faces through bulk chiral Landau levels, predicted in 2014.