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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys's 1966 novel published by André Deutsch, is a prequel to Jane Eyre telling the story of Bertha Mason as Antoinette Cosway in post-emancipation 1830s Jamaica; a foundational neo-Victorian and postcolonial text.
Wide shot
Wide shot (WS), also called long shot or full shot: a camera framing showing a subject head-to-toe with substantial environment, used for establishing shots, master shots, scale, and spatial context; distinct from full shot and extreme wide shot.
Wide symphysis pubis
Wide symphysis pubis (先天性恥骨結合拡大), ICD-11 LB74.5, is a congenital structural developmental anomaly of the pelvic girdle in which the pubic symphysis joint is abnormally wide; normal adult width is 3–6 mm and separation over 10 mm is pathological.
Wide-angle lens
A wide-angle lens, or wide-angle camera lens, is a camera lens with a focal length shorter than the image format diagonal, giving a wider field of view.
Wide-angle X-ray scattering
Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS), also written wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), is an X-ray diffraction technique that probes subnanometer structures and determines the crystalline structure of polymeric materials.
Wide-bandgap perovskite
A wide-bandgap perovskite is a metal-halide perovskite absorber with a bandgap of roughly 1.65 to 2.0 eV, serving as the high-voltage front cell in tandem solar cells.
Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells
Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells are photovoltaic devices based on mixed iodide-bromide perovskites with bandgaps above 1.7 eV, serving as the top subcells of perovskite/silicon tandems that have reached about 35% efficiency.
Wide-body aircraft
A wide-body aircraft, also called a jumbo jet, is a large twin-aisle airliner with two passenger aisles, typically seating more than 210 passengers on long-haul routes.
Wide-body freighter
A wide-body freighter is a large cargo aircraft, either factory-built like the Boeing 747-400F and 777F or converted from passenger airliners; 657 were in service, 45% of them 747s.
Wide-field calcium imaging
Wide-field calcium imaging is a fluorescence microscopy method that records calcium signals across millimeter-to-centimeter fields of the brain, capturing population activity rather than single cells.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) was a NASA infrared space telescope launched in 2009 that mapped the entire sky, then hunted asteroids as NEOWISE until 2024.
Wide-field microscopy
Wide-field microscopy is an optical imaging technique that illuminates the whole specimen at once and captures the image with a camera, the workhorse of cell biology imaging.
Wide-field NV magnetometry
Wide-field NV magnetometry, also called the quantum diamond microscope, uses nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond to produce spatially resolved maps of magnetic fields, first demonstrated in 2010.
Widecombe in the Moor
Widecombe in the Moor, also known as Widecombe, Devon, is a village and parish in central Dartmoor National Park, England, known for its annual September fair.
Widefield microscopy
Widefield microscopy is an optical method that illuminates the entire specimen field at once, capturing fluorescence images in a single exposure; its main weakness is out-of-focus blur in thick samples.
Widely applicable information criterion
The widely applicable information criterion (WAIC), also called the Watanabe–Akaike information criterion, is a fully Bayesian measure for comparing statistical models, introduced by Sumio Watanabe in 2010.
Widely linear equalizer
A widely linear equalizer is a channel equalizer that filters a received signal and its complex conjugate, used for improper signals such as BPSK or IQ imbalance.
Widener Library
Widener Library (Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library) is Harvard University's flagship library in Harvard Yard, opened 1915. Funded by Eleanor Elkins Widener for her son Harry, a 1907 graduate who died on the Titanic; designed by Horace Trumbauer's firm with Julian Abele.
Wideok of Baekje
Wideok of Baekje (威德王, personal name Chang) was the 27th king of Baekje, reigning from 554 to 598, who rebuilt royal authority after the defeat at Gwansanseong where his father was killed.
Widerøe
Widerøe, or Widerøe's Flyveselskap, is a Norwegian regional airline founded in 1934 by Viggo Widerøe, Norway's oldest, headquartered in Bodø and owned by Norwegian Air Shuttle since 2024.
Widescreen
Widescreen refers to image formats wider than the traditional 4:3 frame, including 16:9 video, 1.85:1 flat film, and anamorphic 2.39:1; born of the 1950s CinemaScope race against television.
Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic is an Athens, Georgia jam rock band formed in the mid-1980s by John Bell, Michael Houser, and Dave Schools, named for Houser's nickname. Known for Space Wrangler (1988), 60 straight Red Rocks sell-outs, and 3 million albums sold.
Widevine
Widevine is a digital rights management system owned by Google that encrypts video and issues per-device licenses, used by Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, and other streaming services.
Widget (beer)
Widget (beer): a small hollow device, invented at Guinness in Dublin in 1968 by Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand, placed in cans or bottles of nitrogenated beer such as Guinness Draught; it releases a pressurized jet of beer and nitrogen on opening to create a draught-style creamy foam head.
Widjaja family
The Widjaja family is a Chinese-Indonesian business dynasty behind the Sinar Mas Group, built by patriarch Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who died in 2019 at age 98.
Widok z ziarnkiem piasku
"Widok z ziarnkiem piasku" ("View with a Grain of Sand") is a 1986 poem by Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, examining how language imposes names on a self-unaware world.
Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and not remarried; widower is the male term. Covers the widowhood effect on health and mortality, dower and inheritance law, cultural practices, and social protection gaps.
Widow Clicquot
Widow Clicquot, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (1777-1866), French widow who took over the Veuve Clicquot champagne house in 1805, invented riddling (remuage), created the first blended rose champagne, and shipped her 1811 comet vintage to Russia; also the 2023 film starring Haley Bennett.
Widow's Bay
Widow's Bay is a 2026 Apple TV comedy horror series created by Katie Dippold, starring Matthew Rhys as Mayor Tom Loftis of a cursed New England island town; it won a record 14 Emmys and was renewed for season 2.
Widow's peak
Widow's peak: a V-shaped point in the hairline at the center of the forehead, named for a widowhood superstition; a normal variant, wrongly taught as a single dominant gene, and distinct from a receding hairline.