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Weyl phonons
Weyl phonons are phonon band crossings in crystals that act as topological monopoles of Berry curvature and carry chirality, the bosonic analogs of Weyl points in semimetals.
Weyl semimetals
Weyl semimetals are conducting crystals whose low-energy electrons behave as massless Weyl fermions and whose surfaces carry topological Fermi arcs, first confirmed in TaAs and NbAs in 2015.
Weyl tensor
The Weyl tensor is the traceless part of the Riemann curvature tensor, unchanged by conformal rescaling of the metric. It was constructed by Hermann Weyl in 1918.
Weyl-Kondo semimetal
A Weyl-Kondo semimetal (WKSM) is a proposed quantum phase in which Weyl nodes arise from the Kondo effect in heavy-fermion materials, proposed in 2017 with Ce₃Bi₄Pd₃ identified as its realization.
Weyl's theorem on complete reducibility
Weyl's theorem on complete reducibility is a theorem in representation theory stating that every finite-dimensional representation of a semisimple Lie algebra is a direct sum of irreducible representations.
Weymouth, Dorset
Weymouth, Dorset: seaside town and port at the mouth of the River Wey, formed from medieval Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, united in 1571; resort since George III's 1789 visit, 2012 Olympic sailing venue, population about 52,000.
Weyward
Weyward, Emilia Hart's 2023 debut novel (St. Martin's Press), follows three women of one family line in 1619, 1942, and 2019, connected by nature-linked powers, in Cumbrian witch-trial historical fiction that won two Goodreads Choice Awards.
WFDC2
WFDC2, also known as HE4, is a human protein-coding gene on chromosome 20 that encodes a small secreted glycoprotein best known as a blood biomarker for ovarian carcinoma.
WFMU
WFMU (91.1 FM), also WMFU 90.1, is a listener-supported freeform radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, founded at Upsala College in 1958, freeform since 1968, independent since 1995 under Auricle Communications, with no playlists, ads, or corporate sponsorship.
WFS1
Wolframin (WFS1 protein, UniProt O76024) is an 890-amino-acid human ER transmembrane glycoprotein regulating calcium homeostasis and ER stress; recessive loss-of-function mutations cause Wolfram syndrome 1.
WFXT
WFXT (Boston 25), virtual channel 25, Boston's Fox affiliate, owned by Cox Media Group since 2014, formerly WXNE-TV and Fox-owned; studios in Dedham, 1,000 kW ERP on RF 34, newscasts branded Boston 25 News since 2017.
WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV, also called GBH 2, is Boston's noncommercial PBS station, on air since May 2, 1955, owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, producer of FRONTLINE, NOVA, and Masterpiece, and rebranded GBH in 2020.
WGCZ Holding
WGCZ Holding, a.s. is a Czech holding company registered in Prague in 2014 that controls the tube sites XVideos and XNXX and acquired Penthouse, BangBros, and Jacquie et Michel.
Wget
Wget, also known as GNU Wget, is a free GNU command-line utility for downloading files over HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, designed for scripts and cron jobs.
WGFT (song)
WGFT ("We Gettin' Fucked Tonight", censored as "She Goin' Up Tonight") is a 2025 hip-hop single by Gunna featuring Burna Boy, the third single from The Last Wun, peaking at No. 16 on the Hot 100.
WGN America
WGN America, also known as Superstation WGN, was the national superstation feed of WGN-TV in Chicago and the last remaining American superstation, rebranded as NewsNation in 2021.
WGN-TV
WGN-TV (Channel 9, WGN 9) is a Chicago television station whose call sign honors the Tribune's 'World's Greatest Newspaper' slogan; signed on April 5, 1948, CW affiliate since 2024, owned by Nexstar since 2019.
WH Group
WH Group Limited is a Hong Kong-listed food company describing itself as the world's largest pork company, formed when Shuanghui International acquired Smithfield in 2013.
Wh Strategic
Wh Strategic is a series of private equity and venture capital funds managed by Washington Harbour Partners, an Arlington, Virginia firm founded by Mina Faltas in 2019.
Wh-movement
Wh-movement (wh-fronting, wh-extraction) is the syntax rule fronting interrogative words like who, what, which to clause-initial position, obligatory in English, covert in Chinese, constrained by islands, with cross-linguistic variation.
WH-PACT trial
WH-PACT (NCT02039856, VA CRE 12-026) was a 12-site cluster randomized trial led by Elizabeth Yano testing evidence-based quality improvement to tailor VA's PACT medical home model to women Veterans; it improved team functioning and burnout but showed no patient-level differences.
Wh0
Wh0 is a British house music act formed in 2018 by Robert Chetcuti and Tom Cross, known for a masked image and releases on Toolroom Records.
WH007
WH007 is a Category 2.3 improved new drug of mulberry twig total alkaloids (桑枝总生物碱, SZ-A/Sangbo'en) for polycystic ovary syndrome, developed by Beijing Wehand-Bio with CAMS; NMPA IND approved December 2025, Phase II trial CTR20260897 (240 participants) started 2026.
WH1TNEY
WH1TNEY is Whitney Houston's 2026 Arista/Legacy compilation gathering all 11 of her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles (1985–1996) on translucent grape vinyl, released August 7, 2026 for her 63rd birthday, with a 32-song Expanded Edition following August 10.
WHA Corporation
WHA Corporation is a Bangkok-based Thai group listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, founded in 2003 by Jareeporn Jarukornsakul and Somyos Anantaprayoon to develop industrial estates.
Whaam!
Whaam! is Roy Lichtenstein's 1963 two-panel Pop Art painting of a fighter jet destroying an enemy plane, based on DC's All American Men of War no. 89, held at Tate Modern since 1966.
Whac-A-Mole
Whac-A-Mole, also written Whack-a-Mole, is an arcade redemption game in which players hit popping-up moles with a mallet; introduced by Bob's Space Racers in 1974, trademarked by Mattel, and a common metaphor for recurring problems.
Whaikōrero
Whaikōrero is formal speech-making in Māori culture, the oratory delivered on the marae during pōwhiri, hui, and tangihanga, traditionally by male speakers called kaikōrero, with women serving as kaikaranga, the callers who welcome visitors.
Whakaari / White Island
Whakaari / White Island, also called White Island, is an active volcano in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, some 48 km offshore; a 2019 eruption killed 22 tourists.
Whakairo
Whakairo is the Māori art of carving in wood, bone, and stone, once done with stone tools and revived by a 20th-century renaissance of traditional carving.