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Wuling Starlight 560 (星光560)
The Wuling Starlight 560 (星光560) is a mid-size SUV from SAIC-GM-Wuling's Wuling brand, launched in China in January 2026 with gasoline, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric versions priced from 62,800 yuan.
Wuling Starlight S
The Wuling Starlight S (五菱星光S) is a five-seat plug-in hybrid and electric SUV built by SAIC-GM-Wuling, launched in China in 2024 as the first SUV in Wuling's Starlight new-energy family.
Wuliu Xiansheng Zhuan
Wuliu Xiansheng Zhuan (五柳先生传, "Biography of Mr. Five Willows") is a short biography by Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming, long read as his autobiography but now often seen as a fictional portrait.
Wulong Electric Vehicle (五龙电动车)
Wulong Electric Vehicle, formally FDG Electric Vehicles Limited, was a Hong Kong-listed Chinese electric vehicle maker under the Yangtze brand that lost money every year from 2010 to 2017.
Wulongqing Formation
Wulongqing Formation, Lower Cambrian Stage 4 rock unit in Yunnan, China, hosting the Burgess Shale-type Guanshan Biota and abundant trace fossils, overlying the Hongjingshao Formation.
Wumpus World
Wumpus World: classic AI grid-world cave (4x4) from Genesereth and Russell & Norvig's AIMA; an agent uses percepts (stench, breeze, glitter, bump, scream) to find gold, avoid pits and the wumpus, and escape.
Wunda (crater)
Wunda is a 131-kilometer-wide impact crater on Umbriel, the darkest of Uranus's large moons, best known for a bright ring-shaped floor deposit whose origin, possibly carbon dioxide ice or cryovolcanism, remains unresolved.
Wunderwaffe
Wunderwaffe ("wonder weapon") was Nazi propaganda's WWII term for weapons meant to turn the war, notably the V-1, V-2, Me 262, and Type XXI U-boats, which arrived immature, cost heavily, and changed nothing.
Wungaran Catenae
Wungaran Catenae is a 350-km IAU-named crater chain (catena) on Saturn's moon Rhea, centered near 22.5°N, 79°W, approved in 2010 and named from Kakadu mythology; possibly tectonic in origin.
Wuning Army
The Wuning Army (武宁军) was a Tang dynasty military command headquartered at Xuzhou, tasked with protecting the Bianhe grain transport and later infamous for repeated mutinies and the Pang Xun rebellion.
Wunmi Mosaku
Wunmi Mosaku, British-Nigerian actress born 1986 in Zaria, Nigeria, raised in Manchester; RADA graduate known for His House, Lovecraft Country, Loki's Hunter B-15, and Sinners, winning BAFTAs in 2017 and 2026 and an Oscar nomination.
WUPA
WUPA (WUPA-TV), branded CBS Atlanta, is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by CBS News and Stations since 1994 and serving as the CBS network outlet since 2025.
Wupaishan City Site
五排山城址 (Wupaishan city site): Warring States to Han fortified mountain city of the Northern Woju people on Wupai Mountain, Dongning, Heilongjiang; 1,900 m stone walls, national key cultural relics protection unit since 2006.
Wuppertal
Wuppertal, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded 1 August 1929 by merging Barmen, Elberfeld, and other towns; home of the 1901 Schwebebahn suspended monorail, Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, and the University of Wuppertal.
Wuppertal Schwebebahn
The Wuppertal Schwebebahn, also called the Wuppertal Suspension Railway or Wuppertal monorail, is a suspended monorail in Wuppertal, Germany, opened in 1901, whose trains hang from a rail above the Wupper river.
Wuppertaler
Wuppertaler most commonly refers to Wuppertaler SV, a German football club founded in Wuppertal in 1954, best known for three Bundesliga seasons from 1972 to 1975.
Wuqi Oil Field
Wuqi Oil Field (吴起油田) is an onshore conventional oil field in Wuqi County, Shaanxi, China, discovered in 1993 and operated by Yanchang Oilfield in the Ordos Basin.
Wuqiangxi hydroelectric plant
Wuqiangxi hydroelectric plant (五强溪水电站) is a large dam and run-of-river hydroelectric station on the Yuan River in Yuanling County, Hunan, China, expanded from 1,200 to 1,700 MW in 2023.
Wuqiao Mutiny
The Wuqiao Mutiny (吴桥兵变) was a 1631 mutiny by Kong Youde's army at Wuqiao, sparked by a chicken seizure, whose gunners and cannons later strengthened Later Jin sieges.
Würgassen Nuclear Power Plant
Würgassen Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Würgassen, KWW) was a German boiling water reactor at Beverungen, North Rhine-Westphalia, operated by PreussenElektra from 1975 until its shutdown in 1994.
WurlD
WurlD is the stage name of Sadiq Onifade, a Nigerian singer and songwriter born in Lagos in 1987 who fuses soul, R&B, and electronic music within Afrobeats.
Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer (Rudolph Wurlitzer Company), American musical instrument brand founded by German immigrant Rudolph Wurlitzer in Cincinnati, 1856. Known for the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ, jukeboxes, and electric piano; brand re-owned by the Wurlitzer family since 2021.
Würth
Würth, also known as the Würth Group, is a German family-owned group headquartered in Künzelsau that sells screws, anchors, tools, and assembly materials in over 80 countries.
Würth Elektronik
Würth Elektronik is a German group of electronics companies headquartered in Niedernhall, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1971 by Reinhold Würth within the Würth Group, making printed circuit boards and electronic components.
Wurtz reaction
The Wurtz reaction, or Wurtz coupling, is an organic reaction joining two alkyl halides with sodium to form a higher alkane, discovered by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in 1855.
Wurtzite
Wurtzite is a hexagonal zinc sulfide mineral, (Zn,Fe)S, and the high-temperature polymorph of sphalerite. Charles Friedel named it in 1861 for French chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz.
Wurtzite ferroelectrics
Wurtzite ferroelectrics are ferroelectric materials with the wurtzite crystal structure whose polarization can switch under an electric field, first shown in aluminum scandium nitride in 2019 and promising for non-volatile memory.
Wurtzite structure
The wurtzite structure is a hexagonal crystal structure named for the mineral wurtzite, a hexagonal form of zinc sulfide, and is common in semiconductors such as GaN and ZnO.
Wurundjeri
Wurundjeri (Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung), Aboriginal people of Naarm/Melbourne, one of five Kulin Nation clans, Woi wurrung language; represented by the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, which lodged a 2025 native title claim over greater Melbourne and entered Victoria's treaty negotiations in 2026.
Wurunsemu Tholus
Wurunsemu Tholus is an 83-km-wide Venusian tholus, a small domical hill, at 40.60°N 209.90°E in quad V-14; IAU-named in 1985 for the Hatti proto-Hittite sun goddess, its volcanic classification is uncertain.