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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation near Dayton, Ohio, serving as the Air Force's principal center for research and development and logistics.
Wright–Giemsa stain
Wright–Giemsa stain (Wright-Giemsa) is a combined Romanowsky-type stain used in hematology and cytology, staining cell nuclei purple and cytoplasm blue on blood and bone marrow smears.
Wrightbus
Wrightbus is a bus manufacturer based in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, founded in 1946. It built the London New Routemaster and specializes in battery-electric and hydrogen buses.
Wrigley Company
Wrigley Company (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company), founded April 1, 1891 by William Wrigley Jr. in Chicago, maker of Juicy Fruit, Spearmint, Doublemint, and Orbit gum; acquired by Mars, Incorporated in 2008 for $23 billion and now part of Mars Wrigley Confectionery.
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field, also Weeghman Park and Cubs Park, is the Chicago Cubs' ballpark since 1916, built 1914, second-oldest MLB park after Fenway, with 1937 ivy and hand-turned scoreboard, 1988 lights, and the $575M 1060 Project.
Wrinkle
Wrinkle (rhytid): visible skin crease from aging, UV exposure, smoking, and expression; classified fine vs coarse and atrophic, elastotic, expressional, gravitational; treated with retinoids, botulinum toxin, fillers, lasers.
Wrinkles the Clown
Wrinkles the Clown, a southwest Florida bogeyman-for-hire from a 2014 viral video, with a phone number for "behavioral services"; subject of Michael Beach Nichols' 2019 documentary, which reveals the videos were staged.
Wrist
Wrist: the radiocarpal joint region linking forearm and hand, formed by the distal radius with the scaphoid, lunate, and triquetrum; distal radius fractures are the most common adult fracture.
Wrist arthroplasty
Wrist arthroplasty, also called total wrist arthroplasty (TWA), is a surgical procedure that replaces the arthritic wrist joint with an artificial implant, relieving pain while preserving some motion.
Wrist arthroscopy
Wrist arthroscopy is a minimally invasive procedure using a small camera inside the wrist joint to diagnose and treat conditions like TFCC tears and fractures.
Wrist drop
Wrist drop, also called radial nerve palsy, is loss of wrist, finger, and thumb extension from radial nerve injury. Causes include humeral shaft fractures, Saturday night palsy compression, and PIN entrapment; over 90% recover in 3 to 4 months.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), also known as Pizzeria Kamikaze, is Goran Dukic's dark-comedy debut adapted from Etgar Keret's Kneller's Happy Campers, following Zia (Patrick Fugit) through an afterlife for suicides, with Tom Waits as Kneller.
Writ
A writ is a formal written court order commanding action or restraint; key forms include habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, prohibition, quo warranto, and execution, authorized in U.S. federal courts by the All Writs Act.
Writ of election
A writ of election is a formal legal command ordering an election, issued to fill a vacant seat or start a general election. US: Article I, Section 2, Clause 4 requires governors to issue writs for House vacancies; Canada, Australia, and other jurisdictions have their own issuing officers and timetables.
Write amplification
Write amplification is the phenomenon in flash-based SSDs where the drive physically writes more data to NAND flash than the host requested, reducing endurance and performance.
Write-ahead logging
Write-ahead logging (WAL) is a database technique that records changes in a durable log flushed to disk before the modified data pages are written, enabling crash recovery.
Write-back cache
A write-back cache, also called copy-back caching, updates only its own copy on a write and defers writing to memory until eviction, tracked by a dirty bit.
Write-in candidate
Write-in candidate: a person whose name is not printed on the ballot but whom voters may write in; also called declared or certified write-in candidacy in states requiring pre-election filing. Key facts: state-by-state paperwork requirements, Burdick v. Takushi (1992) upholding Hawaii's ban, Lyndon Johnson's 1968 New Hampshire write-in win.
Write-off
Write-off: colloquial term for a tax deduction, an amount subtracted from taxable income for costs, losses, or depreciation; distinct from a credit, and also used for accounting write-offs and cancellation of uncollectible tax debt.
Writer
Writer: a person who produces written text as a profession or craft, from Old English writere (scribe, copyist). Distinct from author; spans journalism, technical writing since 1943, fiction, and ghostwriting, with US employment flat 2025-2035.
Writer's block
Writer's block is the inhibited ability to start or continue writing, a term coined by psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler in 1947; causes include physiological, motivational, cognitive, and behavioral factors, with remedies from freewriting to scheduled writing.
Writers Against the War on Gaza
Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), coalition of writers and culture workers formed October 2023; published an 8,000-signatory Statement of Solidarity, runs PEN America and New York Times boycotts, and promotes the PACBI cultural boycott of Israel.
Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America (WGA), joint name of the Writers Guild of America West (founded 1933 as Screen Writers' Guild) and East (1954), the unions representing US screen and television writers; they negotiate the Minimum Basic Agreement with the AMPTP and struck for 148 days in 2023 over streaming residuals and AI.
Writers in Politics
Writers in Politics is a 1981 essay collection by Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo on the African writer's political responsibilities, substantially rewritten and expanded in 1997.
Writers Workshop
Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded in 1958 by poet Purushottama Lal, known for issuing early work by Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, and Vikram Seth.
Writers' Union of Kazakhstan
The Writers' Union of Kazakhstan (Қазақстан Жазушылар одағы) is the only national professional association for poets and authors in Kazakhstan, dating its founding to a 1934 writers' congress.
Writing
Writing: conventional symbol sets plus orthographic rules used to represent language. Covers scripts versus orthographies, logographic, syllabic, abugida, abjad, alphabetic, and featural types, independent origins in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica, typology debates, and digital encoding.
Writing style
Writing style: the manner of expression in text, from diction and syntax to texture and clarity; covers classical three-style doctrine, modern plain style, domain contrasts, and measurable sentence-length gradients.
Writing system
Writing system: a set of visual symbols and rules for recording language, also called script types such as alphabet, abjad, abugida, syllabary, logosyllabary. Independently invented three or four times; about 300 in use, up to 90% endangered.
Writing systems of Africa
Writing systems of Africa: ancient scripts (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Ge'ez, Tifinagh, Nsibidi) and indigenous inventions such as Vai, N'Ko, Bamum, Osmanya, and Adlam, with their dates, inventors, and Unicode status.