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Widows (2018 film)
Widows (2018) is Steve McQueen's heist thriller, co-written with Gillian Flynn from Lynda La Plante's 1983 ITV series, about four Chicago widows pulling a $5 million heist to repay a $2 million debt; it earned a 91% Tomatometer and $42.4 million US gross.
Widows and orphans
Widows and orphans are typographic faults: stranded single lines at the top or bottom of pages or columns. Covers definitions, terminology disputes, CSS widows/orphans properties, and fixes in InDesign, LaTeX, and web text-wrap.
Widows Creek Fossil Plant
Widows Creek Fossil Plant was a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power station near Stevenson, Alabama, with eight units totaling 1,800 megawatts, operated from 1952 to 2015.
Widows' War
Widows' War is a 2024-2025 GMA Network Philippine murder-mystery drama starring Bea Alonzo as Sam and Carla Abellana as George, friends married into the Palacios family who become suspects after their husbands Paco and Basil die. Aired July 1, 2024 to January 17, 2025.
WiDr
WiDr (WIDR), a human colon adenocarcinoma cancer cell line first described in 1979, later shown to be a derivative of HT-29 and listed by ICLAC (ICLAC-00103) as misidentified; microsatellite-stable, BRAF V600E, distributed as ATCC CCL-218.
Widsith
Widsith (Widsið, 'the far-travelled one') is an Old English poem of about 143 lines in the Exeter Book, a catalogue of some 70 tribes and as many heroic figures of the Germanic third-to-sixth-century legendary age, preserved from c. 970 and first edited in 1826.
Widzew Łódź
Widzew Łódź (RTS Widzew Łódź), Polish football club founded 1910 in Łódź's Widzew district; four Polish titles (1981, 1982, 1996, 1997), 1983 European Cup semi-final beating Liverpool, unbeaten 1995/96 season, owned since 2025 by Robert Dobrzycki.
Wieacker-Wolff syndrome
Wieacker-Wolff syndrome (WRWF), also ZC4H2 Associated Rare Disorders (ZARD), is an ultra-rare X-linked ZC4H2 gene disorder causing arthrogryposis, muscle weakness, and intellectual disability, first described in 1985.
Wiebe Bijker
Wiebe Bijker, born 1951, is a Dutch scholar of science and technology studies who, with Trevor Pinch, founded the social construction of technology (SCOT) approach and wrote Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs.
Wiebendorf
Wiebendorf: early Roman Imperial Langobardic urn cemetery at Wiebendorf, Bengerstorf, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; excavated 1973-74 by Horst Keiling; about 800 graves, 718 excavated; published 1984 and 2023.
Wiebke Arlt
Wiebke Arlt is a German-trained physician-scientist in steroid endocrinology who directs the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London, pioneered steroid metabolomics, and became the first woman President of the European Society of Endocrinology.
Wiedemann model
The Wiedemann model is a psycho-physical car-following model in which drivers react to the vehicle ahead by crossing perception thresholds, introduced by Rainer Wiedemann in 1974.
Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome
Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome (neonatal progeroid syndrome, OMIM 264090): ultra-rare autosomal recessive progeroid disorder present at birth, caused by biallelic POLR3A RNA polymerase III variants, with growth retardation, lipodystrophy, sparse hair, and natal teeth.
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WSS, WDSTS, OMIM 605130) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by KMT2A variants, marked by developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypertrichosis cubiti, and distinctive facial features.
Wiedemann–Franz law
The Wiedemann–Franz law is a rule of solid-state physics stating that in metals the ratio of electronic thermal conductivity to electrical conductivity is proportional to absolute temperature.
Wiegand sensor
A Wiegand sensor is a self-powered magnetic sensor that converts a magnetic field reversal into a voltage pulse, used in battery-free rotary encoders, flow meters, and IoT sensors.
Wieke Dijkstra
Wieke Dijkstra (Wieke Elisabeth Henriëtte Dijkstra), born 1984 in Amsterdam, Dutch field hockey midfielder for Laren MHC; 123 caps, 10 goals; Olympic gold 2008 Beijing, World Cup 2006, Euro 2009, Champions Trophy 2007 and 2011; retired 2012.
Wieke Paulusma
Wieke Paulusma, born in Emmen in 1978, is a Dutch D66 politician, a member of the House of Representatives since 2021, and its First Deputy Speaker since November 2025.
Wieland Huttner
Wieland Huttner (born 1950 in Hanover, Germany) is a German neurobiologist who identified the human-specific genes ARHGAP11B and TKTL1 as drivers of neocortex expansion, and directed the MPI-CBG in Dresden from 1998 to 2018.
Wieland–Miescher ketone
The Wieland–Miescher ketone is a bicyclic enedione first prepared at Hoffmann-La Roche in 1950, used as a chiral building block in total syntheses of steroids and terpenoids.
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines (Królewskie kopalnie soli w Wieliczce i Bochni): serial UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Poland, the oldest rock salt mines of their type in Europe, worked from the 13th century to 1990 and 1996 and administered as the royal Kraków Saltworks.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
The Wieliczka Salt Mine (Kopalnia Soli Wieliczka) is a historic rock salt mine near Kraków, Poland, worked from the 13th century until 1996, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 with underground chapels, salt sculptures, and a large underground museum.
Wielka Krokiew
Wielka Krokiew, formally the Stanisław Marusarz Hill, is a ski jumping hill in Zakopane, Poland, opened in 1925 and the largest in the country, hosting three World Championships.
Wielkie Żuławy Malborskie
Wielkie Żuławy Malborskie (Großes Marienburger Werder), the Great Werder of the Vistula delta between the Vistula and Nogat arms, from Biała Góra to the Vistula Spit; Teutonic ring dike, Mennonite drainage from 1562, part of the Free City of Danzig 1920–1945.
Wien (Martian crater)
Wien is a 115.14 km impact crater on Mars at 10.57°S, 139.75°E, approved by the IAU in 1976 and named for Wilhelm Wien, the German physicist (1864–1928).
Wien bridge oscillator
The Wien bridge oscillator, or Wien-Robinson oscillator, generates sine waves using a Wien bridge RC network, mainly in audio frequency generators from about 5 Hz to 1 MHz.
Wien Energie
Wien Energie is Austria's largest regional energy provider, owned by the City of Vienna through Wiener Stadtwerke, supplying electricity, heat, and cooling to around two million people.
Wien Hauptbahnhof
Wien Hauptbahnhof, or Vienna Central Station, is Vienna's main railway station, opened in 2014 on the former Südbahnhof site and operated by the Austrian federal railways ÖBB.
Wien Stadt
Wien Stadt (City of Vienna) is Austria's federal capital, largest municipality, and simultaneously a federal province since 1922, governed by a 100-member City Council, the Magistrat, and 23 decentralized districts; population about 2.04 million in 2026.
Wien's displacement law
Wien's displacement law, named for German physicist Wilhelm Wien, states that a blackbody's peak wavelength is inversely proportional to its absolute temperature, so hotter bodies emit at shorter wavelengths.