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Wicked Witch of the East
The Wicked Witch of the East, also Nessarose Thropp in Wicked, is the Oz tyrant killed by Dorothy's falling house in Baum's 1900 novel; her silver shoes pass to Dorothy, and MGM's 1939 film made her the Witch of the West's sister.
Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the West is the antagonist of Baum's 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a one-eyed, non-green old woman; the 1939 MGM film with Margaret Hamilton added green skin, and Maguire's Wicked renamed her Elphaba Thropp.
Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good (2025) is Jon M. Chu's Universal musical fantasy, the second film adapting Act 2 of the Broadway musical Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, released November 21, 2025.
Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack
Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack is the cast recording for the 2025 film Wicked: For Good, released November 21, 2025 by Republic and Verve Records.
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
Wicked: One Wonderful Night is an American television musical special that aired on NBC on November 6, 2025, co-hosted by film stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
Wicked: The Soundtrack
Wicked: The Soundtrack (2024) is the cast album for Universal's first Wicked film with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Stephen Schwartz songs, 13 tracks, 56 minutes, released November 22, 2024 via Republic Records, UK's top soundtrack of 2024.
Wicker
Wicker (wickerwork) is the weaving of thin flexible sticks, stems, or reeds, traditionally immature willow, into baskets and furniture; the word, from Scandinavian vikker (willow), names the technique, not a material.
Wicker man
Wicker man: giant wickerwork effigy in which Caesar and Strabo say the ancient Gauls burned human and animal sacrifices performed by Druids. Historicity disputed; famous from the 1973 folk horror film.
Wicker Park (film)
Wicker Park is a 2004 American psychological drama directed by Paul McGuigan, starring Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger, set in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Wickes-class destroyer
The Wickes-class destroyer was a class of 111 flush-deck US Navy destroyers built between 1917 and 1921, the first American warship class produced by mass production.
Wicket
Wicket (cricket): the three stumps and two bails at each end of the pitch; also the 22-yard pitch strip and a batter's dismissal. Law 8 dimensions, Law 29 breaking, history from holes to third stump.
Wicket gate
A wicket gate is an adjustable guide vane arranged in a ring around a reaction hydraulic turbine, controlling water flow and swirl entering the runner.
Wicket-keeper
Wicket-keeper: the cricket fielder behind the stumps who takes missed deliveries, catches edges, and effects stumpings and run outs. Governed by MCC Law 27; only keeper may wear keeping pads and gloves; 2026 law change allows standing closer before release.
Wickham Bushes Romano-British settlement
Wickham Bushes is the buried remains of a Roman small town in Crowthorne, England, occupied from AD 43 into the 4th century and now a Scheduled Monument.
Wickie und die starken Männer (2009 film)
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking) is Michael Bully Herbig's 2009 German live-action family film, based on Runer Jonsson's books and the 1974 anime, starring Jonas Hämmerle, released 9 September 2009 with about 5 million German admissions.
Wickr
Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration platform founded in the United States in 2012, acquired by Amazon Web Services in 2021, and now serving enterprises and government agencies.
Widal test
Widal test: 1896 serological agglutination test by Georges-Fernand Widal (also Gruber-Widal reaction) detecting Salmonella O and H antibodies for typhoid diagnosis; unreliable, low specificity, still used cheaply in endemic countries.
Widdershins
Widdershins: Scottish adverb for counterclockwise, movement against the sun's course, first recorded in the 1510s from Middle Low German weddersinnes; opposite of deasil, unlucky in folklore, used in modern witchcraft for banishing.
Widdertshäuschen at Serrig
The Widdertshäuschen near Serrig, Germany, is a Gallo-Roman grave monument of the 2nd or 3rd century: a sandstone block hollowed out for burials and covered by a house-shaped stone lid.
Wide Area Augmentation System
The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is a Federal Aviation Administration satellite system, commissioned in 2003, that improves GPS accuracy to a few meters for aircraft across the United States.
Wide area measurement system
A wide area measurement system (WAMS) is a power-grid infrastructure that collects GPS time-synchronized measurements from across a large transmission network, complementing SCADA with a real-time system-wide view.
Wide area network
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that connects computers and local area networks across large geographic areas, typically relying on leased lines, carrier services, or the internet.
Wide area transepithelial sampling
Wide area transepithelial sampling (WATS) is an endoscopic brushing method, aided by computer-assisted 3D analysis, that detects Barrett's esophagus and dysplasia as an adjunct to forceps biopsy.
Wide Awake (1998 film)
Wide Awake is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Joseph Cross as a boy searching for God after his grandfather's death.
Wide I/O
Wide I/O is a JEDEC mobile DRAM standard, published in December 2011, that stacks memory die directly on a system-on-chip through through-silicon vias, delivering 12.8 GB/s from a wide, slow bus.
Wide local excision
Wide local excision is a surgical procedure removing a tumor with a surrounding margin of healthy tissue, the standard operation for early breast cancer, also called lumpectomy.
Wide moving jam
A wide moving jam is a dense, slow region of freeway traffic that propagates upstream, keeping its downstream front velocity nearly constant; central to Kerner's three-phase traffic theory.
Wide neural network
A wide neural network is one with very large hidden layers, often studied in an infinite-width limit where training simplifies to kernel methods such as the neural tangent kernel.
Wide Putin Walking
Wide Putin Walking (IT'S HIM) is a 2020 viral video meme stretching 2018 RT inauguration footage of Vladimir Putin walking Kremlin corridors, set to Piano Fantasia's "Song for Denise"; it spawned Wide World Leaders Walking and faded after February 2022.
Wide receiver
Wide receiver (WR): American football position; players line up wide, run routes, and catch passes from the quarterback. Includes split end, flanker, and slot alignments; judged on separation, route running, and yards per route run.