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Wipe (transition)
Wipe transition: film editing effect in which a moving boundary line or shape replaces one shot with the next. Also called iris, clock, or star wipe. First used by Robert Paul in Scrooge (1901); famous in Star Wars; now rare in features.
Wipeout (2008 game show)
Wipeout is an ABC obstacle-course reality game show that premiered June 24, 2008, created by Matt Kunitz; 24 contestants compete for $50,000, hosted by John Anderson, John Henson, and Jill Wagner, with a 2021 TBS reboot.
Wipeout (video game series)
WipEout (Wipeout) is a futuristic anti-gravity racing series by Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool, launched as a 1995 PlayStation European title by Nick Burcombe and Jim Bowers, known for combat weapons, electronica soundtracks, and the 2017 Omega Collection remaster.
Wipeout (video game)
WipEout (Wipeout), 1995 futuristic anti-gravity racer by Psygnosis, a European PlayStation launch title set in 2052's F3600 league; known for The Designers Republic visuals, a rave soundtrack, and spawning the WipEout series.
Wipers (band)
Wipers: American punk rock band formed 1977 in Portland, Oregon by Greg Sage; studio-project origins, albums Is This Real? (1980), Youth of America, Over the Edge; key influence on Nirvana, Mudhoney and grunge.
Wiphala
Wiphala: the square seven-color checkerboard flag of Andean Indigenous peoples, official state symbol of Bolivia since the 2009 constitution, revived as an Aymara emblem in the 1970s, recognized by a 2025 UN resolution.
WIPHOLD
WIPHOLD is a South African investment holding company established in 1994 by four black women, acting as a pioneering BEE vehicle to integrate black women into the mainstream economy.
WIPI protein family
WIPI protein family: four human PROPPIN β-propeller proteins (WIPI1-4, genes WIPI1, WIPI2, WDR45B, WDR45) that bind PtdIns3P at the nascent autophagosome; WIPI2 recruits ATG16L1 for LC3 lipidation, WDR45 mutations cause BPAN neurodegeneration.
WIPO Copyright Treaty
The WIPO Copyright Treaty is an international copyright treaty adopted in Geneva in 1996 that extends copyright protection and authors' rights into the digital environment, particularly the Internet.
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), one of the 1996 Internet treaties, entered into force May 20, 2002; it protects performers and producers of phonograms with reproduction, distribution, rental, making-available, and moral rights.
WIPO study
The WIPO study (NCT05318261, the WIPO Study) was a 2025 multicentre observational study of weaning-induced pulmonary oedema in 500 ICU patients across 13 ICUs in France, Italy, and India, finding WIPO in 12% of spontaneous breathing trials and 36% of weaning failures, with COPD and previous cardiomyopathy as risk factors.
Wipro
Wipro Limited, also known as Wipro Technologies, is an Indian IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bengaluru and India's fourth-largest software exporter by revenue.
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo) is the 1978 non-fiction book by Stern journalists Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck on Christiane Felscherinow's heroin addiction in 1970s West Berlin, adapted into Uli Edel's 1981 film Christiane F. and a 2021 Amazon series.
Wir sind Helden
Wir sind Helden, German pop-rock band founded 2000 in Hamburg with Judith Holofernes, Jean-Michel Tourette, Mark Tavassol, and Pola Roy; breakthrough self-released EP "Guten Tag" (2002), albums Die Reklamation (2003), Von hier an blind (2005), Soundso (2007), Bring mich nach Hause (2010).
Wiradjuri
Wiradjuri (Wiradyuri) are Aboriginal people of the three rivers (Macquarie, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee) in central NSW, Australia, the largest nation in the state, known for the Bathurst War resistance under Windradyne and for language revival.
Wire
Wire is metal pulled through tapered dies into long, thin strands, a process called wire drawing that reduces diameter, adds length, and greatly strengthens the material.
Wire (band)
Wire: English art-punk/post-punk band (Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Grey) formed in London, Roxy debut April 1977; Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154; pinkflag label; influence on hardcore and post-punk.
Wire arc additive manufacturing
Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is a metal 3D printing process that melts wire with a welding arc, building large parts layer by layer at high deposition rates.
Wire arc directed energy deposition
Wire arc directed energy deposition (DED-Arc), also known as WAAM, is a metal additive manufacturing process that builds parts layer by layer with an electric arc and wire.
Wire arc spraying
Wire arc spraying, or arc spray, is a thermal spray process that melts coating material via electric arc, applying corrosion and wear-resistant coatings to substrates.
Wire bonding
Wire bonding is a semiconductor packaging process that electrically connects integrated circuit chip pads to their leadframe or substrate using fine wires, used in about 93% of all packages.
Wire chamber
A wire chamber is a gas-filled particle detector that records charged-particle tracks electronically; the multiwire proportional chamber was invented by Georges Charpak at CERN in 1968.
Wire drawing
Wire drawing is a metalworking process that pulls a rod or wire through a die to reduce its cross-sectional area and increase its length, typically in multiple passes.
Wire electrical discharge machining
Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM, or wire EDM) is a non-contact machining process that cuts any electrically conductive material with a continuously moving wire electrode and controlled sparks.
Wire entanglement
A wire entanglement is a military obstacle of barbed wire, usually mounted on posts and zigzagged along a front, designed to delay or halt enemy foot soldiers.
Wire Fox Terrier
Wire Fox Terrier (FCI 169), British terrier bred to bolt foxes from dens; wiry white coat, 15.5 inches, 18 lb, AKC-recognized 1885, separate breed 1985, top Westminster winner.
Wire gauge
Wire gauge, or wire size, is a standardized number scale for wire diameter, with smaller numbers meaning thicker wire; common systems include American AWG and British SWG.
Wire in the Blood
Wire in the Blood is a British ITV1 crime drama (2002–2008) adapted from Val McDermid's Tony Hill/Carol Jordan novels, starring Robson Green as clinical psychologist profiler Dr Tony Hill with Hermione Norris, later Simone Lahbib, produced by Coastal Productions.
Wire interconnect
A wire interconnect is a photovoltaic module technology, commercialized as SmartWire Connection Technology (SWCT), that replaces flat solder-coated copper ribbons with thin round wires, cutting shading and silver use.
Wire recording
Wire recording, or magnetic wire recording, is a sound-recording method in which audio signals magnetize a thin moving steel wire, introduced by Valdemar Poulsen in 1898.