All articles starting with W

WIEN2k

WIEN2k is a program package for electronic structure calculations of solids, solving the Kohn–Sham equations of density functional theory with the all-electron full-potential (L)APW+lo method, including relativistic effects.

Wiencke Island

Wiencke Island: Antarctic island in the Palmer Archipelago, 16 mi long, between Anvers Island and the Antarctic Peninsula; named for seaman Carl-August Wiencke, who died on the Belgica expedition in 1898.

Wiener (lunar crater)

Wiener is a 113.39-km-wide impact crater on the far side of the Moon at about 41°N, 146°E, adopted by the IAU and named for American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964).

Wiener algebra

The Wiener algebra A(𝕋), or W(𝕋), is a commutative Banach algebra of continuous periodic functions with absolutely summable Fourier coefficients, introduced by Norbert Wiener and known for Wiener's lemma.

Wiener filter

The Wiener filter, also called the Kolmogorov-Wiener filter, is the linear filter minimizing mean-square error between a desired signal and its estimate, developed by Norbert Wiener in the 1940s.

Wiener index

The Wiener index, also called the Wiener number, is the sum of shortest-path distances between all pairs of vertices in a graph, introduced by Harry Wiener in 1947.

Wiener Linien

Wiener Linien is Vienna's municipal public transport operator, wholly owned by the City of Vienna since its 1999 conversion, responsible for the city's U-Bahn, tram, and bus network.

Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift

Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (WMW), Vienna Medical Weekly, is an Austrian medical journal founded 1851, interrupted 1944-1946, now a Springer hybrid German-English journal with print ISSN 0043-5341 and eISSN 1563-258X.

Wiener process

The Wiener process, also called standard Brownian motion, is a continuous-time stochastic process with independent, normally distributed increments, named after Norbert Wiener, who first constructed it rigorously around 1920.

Wiener schnitzel

Wiener Schnitzel, Vienna schnitzel, is Austria's breaded veal cutlet from the Kalbsschlögel, fried in pork lard with a puffed soufflé crust; only veal may bear the name, pork is Schnitzel Wiener Art.

Wiener sport club

Wiener Sport-Club (WSC) is one of Austria's oldest sports clubs, founded in 1883, known for its Hernals stadium and its Austrian championships in 1958 and 1959.

Wiener stadtliga

Wiener Stadtliga, Vienna's top football league and Austria's fourth tier, run by the WFV; 16 clubs, champion promoted to Regionalliga Ost; record champion SR Donaufeld Wien with 6 titles.

Wiener Stadtwerke

Wiener Stadtwerke (Vienna Municipal Works) is the City of Vienna's municipal infrastructure holding company, founded in 1949, overseeing Wien Energie, Wiener Netze, and Wiener Linien.

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Wiener Volkstheater

Wiener Volkstheater (Viennese folk theater) denotes both the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater, Vienna's popular suburban theater from the early 1700s led by Raimund and Nestroy, and the Volkstheater Wien founded in 1889.

Oct 22, 2026

Wiener Werkstätte

The Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop") was a Viennese artists' cooperative, founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, that made fine furniture, jewelry, and fashion until 1932.

Wiener-Dog (film)

Wiener-Dog (2016) is a Todd Solondz comedy-drama, also called a quasi-sequel to Welcome to the Dollhouse, following one dachshund through four owners played by Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, and others.

Wiener–Hopf method

The Wiener–Hopf method is an analytical technique, created by Norbert Wiener and Eberhard Hopf in 1931, for solving integral equations on a half-line and mixed boundary-value problems in mathematical physics.

Wiener–Itô chaos expansion

The Wiener–Itô chaos expansion, also called the Itô–Wiener decomposition, is a theorem writing any square-integrable functional of Brownian motion as an orthogonal series of multiple integrals.

Wiener–Khinchin theorem

The Wiener–Khinchin theorem, also called the Wiener–Khintchine theorem, states that for a wide-sense stationary random process, the power spectral density and autocorrelation function form a Fourier transform pair.

Wienermobile

The Wienermobile, also known as the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile or Frankmobile, is a hot-dog-shaped promotional vehicle that has toured the United States since it first drove in Chicago in 1936.

Wienerschnitzel

Wienerschnitzel is an American hot dog chain founded in 1961 in Wilmington, California, by John Galardi, known for its chili dogs despite a name taken from the Austrian veal cutlet.

Wiera Czajkowska

Wiera Czajkowska was a Polish sprinter of the 1920s who set Polish records in the 100 m, 200 m, and 250 m and won two national 250 m titles.

Wieringermeer

The Wieringermeer is a polder in the Dutch province of North Holland, reclaimed from the Zuiderzee between 1927 and 1930 as the first large polder of the Zuiderzee Works.