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Warner Records

Warner Records, formerly Warner Bros. Records, is a Los Angeles-based frontline label of Warner Music Group, founded March 1958 and rebranded in May 2019 when its Warner Bros. name license expired; led by Aaron Bay-Schuck.

Warner Robins, Georgia

Warner Robins, Georgia, the International City, is a Houston County city of about 88,000 created in 1943 around Robins Air Force Base, Georgia's largest single-site industrial complex, and named for Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins.

Warner Tjardus Koiter

Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914–1997) was a Dutch mechanical engineer and professor at Delft whose 1945 thesis founded the modern theory of elastic stability and imperfection-sensitive shell buckling.

WarnerMedia

WarnerMedia was an American media conglomerate formed in 2018 when AT&T acquired Time Warner, comprising HBO, Warner Bros., and the Turner networks until its 2022 spin-off.

Warning (Green Day album)

Warning (2000) is Green Day's sixth studio album on Reprise, a folk- and classic-rock-influenced turn recorded at Studio 880, Oakland. Lead single Minority topped Modern Rock, but the gold album sold 1.1 million, a commercial dip before American Idiot.

Warning 2

Warning 2 (ਵਾਰਨਿੰਗ 2) is a 2024 Punjabi-language action crime drama, sequel to Warning (2021), directed by Amar Hundal, written and produced by Gippy Grewal, starring Grewal as Geja and Prince Kanwaljit Singh as Pamma, released 2 February 2024.

Warno (video game)

WARNO (Warning Order) is Eugen Systems' Cold War real-time tactics game, spiritual successor to Wargame, set in an alternate 1989 World War III. Early Access January 2022, 1.0 May 2024; six nations, 18 divisions, 1,000+ units, 250,000+ copies sold.

Warp (record label)

Warp Records, British independent label founded 1989 in Sheffield by Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell, and Robert Gordon; home of Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada; known for bleep techno, the 1992 Artificial Intelligence compilation, IDM, Warp Films, and Bleep.

Warp (terminal)

Warp is a Rust-based, GPU-accelerated terminal application with integrated AI assistance, launched for macOS in 2022, which organizes commands and output into blocks and by 2025 added AI agents that execute commands and edit code.

Warp and weft

Warp and weft, also called warp and woof, are the two thread systems of a woven fabric: lengthwise warp threads held under tension, crossed by weft threads.

Warp drive

A warp drive is a hypothetical propulsion concept in which a bubble of warped spacetime carries a spacecraft, first modeled mathematically by Miguel Alcubierre in 1994.

Warp Records discography

The Warp Records discography catalogs releases by Warp Records, a British independent label founded in Sheffield, spanning bleep techno, IDM, experimental pop, and electronic music.

WARP Shinjuku (music)

WARP Shinjuku (ワープ新宿) is a nightclub in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, opened in 2018 in a former cinema, peaking at 31st in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs in 2025.

Warpage

Warpage is the unwanted out-of-plane distortion of a manufactured part, caused by internal stresses from uneven cooling, solidification shrinkage, or mold restraint, and is common in casting, molding, and additive manufacturing.

Warpaint (band)

Warpaint is an American indie rock band formed in Los Angeles on Valentine's Day 2004, known for ethereal guitar-driven dream pop and post-punk; albums The Fool (2010), Warpaint (2014), Heads Up (2016), Radiate Like This (2022).

Warpalawas

Warpalawas, also known as Warpalawa, was king of Tuwana in the Tabal region of southern Cappadocia, a tribute-paying vassal of Assyria known from the İvriz rock relief.

Warpath (character)

Warpath (James Proudstar) is a Marvel Comics Apache mutant, brother of Thunderbird, created by Claremont and Sal Buscema, debuting in New Mutants #16 (1984); Hellion, New Mutant, X-Force founder, and later X-Man with superhuman strength, senses, and flight.

Warped Tour

The Warped Tour, known as the Vans Warped Tour, is a traveling punk rock festival founded by Kevin Lyman in 1995 that also featured extreme sports.

Warping (weaving)

Warping is the weaving process of measuring, arranging, and mounting the lengthwise yarns, the warp, onto a loom, including beaming, threading the heddles, and sleying the reed.

Warra

Warra, also spelled Oware, Wari, and Warri, is a West African mancala count-and-capture board game carried to the Caribbean by the Atlantic slave trade, surviving most visibly in Antigua and Barbuda.

Warragamba Dam

Warragamba Dam is a water supply dam on the Warragamba River in New South Wales, Australia, completed in 1960 and supplying about 80% of Greater Sydney's drinking water.

Warrant (American band)

Warrant: American glam metal/hard rock band formed 1984 on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, not to be confused with the German speed metal Warrant. Hits "Heaven" and "Cherry Pie"; over 10 million albums sold 1989–1996; fronted by Jani Lane until his 2011 death, then Robert Mason.

Warrant (finance)

A stock warrant is a security giving the holder the right to buy shares at a set price before expiration; exercise creates new shares, diluting existing shareholders.

Warrant (law)

Warrant (law): judicial authorization by a judge or magistrate for arrest, search, or seizure. Fourth Amendment requires probable cause, oath, and particularity; shaped by colonial general warrants and writs of assistance, now extended to geofence warrants.

Warrant canary

A warrant canary, known as a warrant canaries practice or canary phrase, is a regularly published statement that a service provider has received no secret surveillance orders.

Warrant officer

Warrant officer: a military rank between enlisted and commissioned officer in the US (W-1 to CW5), a technical specialist appointed by warrant; in UK/Commonwealth usage the most senior enlisted rank (OR-9).

Warrant officer (United Kingdom)

Warrant officer (UK): the top tier of other ranks in the British Armed Forces, appointed by Royal Warrant rather than commission. WO1 (OR-9) and WO2 (OR-8, absent in the RAF) serve as regimental and sub-unit sergeant majors.

Warrant officer (United States)

Warrant officer (United States): technical specialist rank W-1 to W-5 between enlisted NCOs and commissioned officers; Army corps founded July 9, 1918; Air Force began accepting warrant officer applications in April 2024.

Warrant: From the World of Vilangu

Warrant: From the World of Vilangu (வாரண்ட்) is a Tamil crime thriller web series on ZEE5, premiered May 22, 2026, directed by Vignesh Natarajan, created by and starring Prasanth Pandiyaraj as constable Koattai Karuppasamy, set in the Vilangu universe.

Warranty

Warranty: a legally enforceable promise about a product's condition or performance, express or implied, governed in the US by the Magnuson-Moss Act and UCC, distinct from a guarantee or service contract.