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Wrongful dismissal
Wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is dismissal in breach of the employment contract, typically without proper notice; distinct from unfair dismissal, it is judged on contract terms and differs across UK, Canadian, and US at-will frameworks.
Wrongful execution
Wrongful execution is the execution of a person wrongly convicted of a capital crime. Key measures: 203 U.S. death-row exonerations since 1973, one exoneration per 8 executions, and DPIC's list of executed people with credible innocence claims.
Wronskian
The Wronskian, also called the Wronskian determinant, is the determinant of functions and their derivatives, the standard test for linear independence of solutions of linear differential equations.
Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd
Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798: English Chancery case; Brightman J refused demolition of covenant-breaching houses and awarded 5% of the developer's profit, founding the "Wrotham Park" negotiating damages measure.
Wrought iron
Wrought iron, also known as bar iron, is nearly pure iron with about 0.05 percent carbon and 1 to 2 percent slag worked into a fibrous structure, displaced by steel.
Wroxeter
Wroxeter, Roman Viroconium Cornoviorum, was the fourth-largest city of Roman Britain and the Cornovii tribal capital in Shropshire, founded as a legionary fortress in the mid 1st century AD and now among Britain's best-preserved Roman sites.
Wrvi Capital
WRVI Capital, which became Celesta Capital in 2021, is a venture capital firm focused on deep tech. Its founding partners include Lip-Bu Tan, Michael Marks, Nicholas Brathwaite, and Sriram Viswanathan.
WS-Security
WS-Security, or Web Services Security, is an OASIS standard adding security tokens, digital signatures, and encryption to SOAP messages, providing message-level security for web services.
WSB-TV
WSB-TV, an ABC-affiliated station in Atlanta, Georgia, began broadcasting on September 29, 1948, as the first in the state and one of the first in the South.
WSL Players Cup
WSL Players Cup (Subway Players Cup), English women's football league cup for BWSL and BWSL2 clubs, renamed from the Women's League Cup for 2026/27 with a Swiss-style 23-team league phase, six matches each, excluding the three Champions League clubs.
WSL-Curodont trial
The WSL-Curodont trials are randomized controlled trials testing topical P11-4 (Curodont Repair), a self-assembling peptide that promotes remineralization, against fluoride varnish, placebo, or no treatment for arresting white spot lesions.
WSM (AM)
WSM, also known as WSM Radio, is a 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, that launched the Grand Ole Opry in 1925 and broadcasts at 650 kHz.
WSP Global
WSP Global Inc. is a Canadian professional services firm headquartered in Montréal that provides engineering and advisory services in over 50 countries with about 83,000 employees.
WSTRN
WSTRN are a British hip hop and R&B trio from West London, known for their 2015 debut single "In2", which peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
WT Microelectronics
WT Microelectronics (文晔科技股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese semiconductor distributor headquartered in New Taipei City, founded in 1993, which acquired Canada's Future Electronics in 2024 and ranked first among worldwide distributors in 2025.
WT1
WT1, or Wilms' tumor 1, is a human gene on chromosome 11 encoding a zinc-finger transcription factor essential for kidney and gonad development, identified in 1990.
WTA Finals
WTA Finals, the women's tennis season-ending championship since 1972 (originally Virginia Slims Championships): top eight singles players and doubles teams in round robin groups plus knockout; record $15.25 million Riyadh prize money; 2026 at Indian Wells, 2027-2029 in Charlotte.
WTA rankings
WTA rankings (PIF WTA Rankings), the official women's tennis world rankings on a rolling 52-week points system, introduced November 3, 1975 with Chris Evert first No.1; 18 counting singles tournaments, 29 players have been No.1.
WTA Tour records
WTA Tour records: official women's tennis marks. Chris Evert first computer No.1 (Nov 3, 1975); Graf 377 weeks; Navratilova 167 singles and 177 doubles titles; Serena Williams 23 Open Era slams, 73 titles.
WTAP
Pre-mRNA-splicing regulator WTAP (Wilms' tumor 1-associating protein, Q15007, KIAA0105) is a nuclear mammalian protein that regulates pre-mRNA splicing and serves as the regulatory subunit of the METTL3-METTL14 m6A methyltransferase complex, implicated in prostate cancer enzalutamide resistance.
WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championships
The WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championships are the world championships of ten-pin bowling for national teams, first held in 1954 in Helsinki, Finland, with 58 athletes from 7 federations.
WTE trial
WTE trial (NCT01436097), Randomized Trial of Healthy Eating Interventions, a University of Pennsylvania pilot led by Scott Halpern testing flat and tiered grocery-store financial incentives for produce purchases; 42 participants, completed 2011-2013, no results posted.
WTF with Marc Maron
WTF with Marc Maron, also written WTF With Marc Maron, was Marc Maron's long-form interview podcast, produced with Brendan McDonald from a Los Angeles garage from 2009 to October 2025, ending at episode 1,686 with Barack Obama as final guest.
WtFock
wtFOCK (Skam Belgium) is the Flemish, Dutch-language remake of the Norwegian teen web series Skam, set in Antwerp, online-first with Instagram characters, seven protagonist-named seasons 2018-2023 plus 2024, IMDb 8.1/10.
WTFPL
The WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License) is an extremely permissive free software license written by Sam Hocevar in December 2004.
WTO Appellate Body
The WTO Appellate Body is the World Trade Organization's standing tribunal hearing appeals on legal issues in trade disputes; it has been unable to hear appeals since December 2019.
WTO Dispute Settlement Body
The WTO Dispute Settlement Body administers WTO dispute settlement, establishing panels and adopting rulings; its Appellate Body has been paralyzed since 2019 after the United States blocked appointments.
WTP Optics
WTP Optics is the consulting firm of William T. Plummer, an American optical engineer who led optics at Polaroid and worked on the SX-70 camera.
WTSP
WTSP, branded 10 Tampa Bay, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida. It signed on July 18, 1965 as WLCY-TV, an ABC affiliate, joining CBS in 1994.
Wu
Wu (乌江, Wujiang, Wu River), largest right-bank tributary of the upper Yangtze: 1,037 km, 2,124 m drop, karst basin of 87,920 km2, an 11-dam hydropower cascade totaling 8,665 MW in Guizhou.