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Wasil ibn Ata
Wasil ibn Ata (واصل بن عطاء) was a Muslim theologian of Basra, born in Medina around 700, known as the founder of the Mu'tazila school.
Wasilat al-Najat
Wasilat al-Najat (وسيلة النجاة) is a title shared by several unrelated Islamic works, best known being Süleyman Çelebi's Turkish mawlid and a Persian legal treatise by Mullā Aḥmad al-Narāqī.
Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla, Alaska: first-class city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, founded 1917 as an Alaska Railroad town, incorporated 1974, Iditarod headquarters, 2020 census population 9,054, about 43 miles north of Anchorage.
Wasim Akram
Wasim Akram, Pakistani left-arm fast bowler (b. 1966, Lahore): 414 Test and 502 ODI wickets, first to 500 ODI wickets, 916 international wickets; 1992 World Cup winner and Man of the Match, captain in 1999 final; master of reverse swing; ICC Hall of Fame 2009.
Wasim Jaffer
Wasim Jaffer, born 1978 in Bombay, is a former Indian opening batsman who scored 31 Test matches for India and holds the Ranji Trophy record for most runs.
Wasit Governorate
Wasit Governorate (واسط) is an Iraqi governorate centered on Kut, 172 km south of Baghdad, bordering Iran; agricultural Tigris-dependent economy with Ahdab and Badrah oil fields and about 1.3–1.4 million people.
Waskahigan Oil and Gas Field
Waskahigan Oil and Gas Field is an operating onshore oil and gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, producing light oil and gas from the Montney Formation.
Wasmer
Wasmer is an open-source WebAssembly runtime, written in Rust, that runs modules in secure capability-based sandboxes and underpins Wasmer Edge, the company's serverless cloud platform.
Wasmtime
Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly, WASI, and the Component Model, developed by the Bytecode Alliance and written in Rust with a safe public API.
Wasna
Wasna: chiefly the Wasna Event Complex (Wasna Palace), a wedding marquee and event venue in Jinnah Garden, Zone-5, Islamabad, run by Wasna Group; sealed by CDA in June 2025. Also a KP town, a Gujarat locality, and Lakota pemmican (wasná).
Wason selection task
The Wason selection task is a four-card logic puzzle devised by psychologist Peter Wason in 1966, where most people fail to pick the cards that can test the rule.
Wasp
Wasp: paraphyletic group of Hymenoptera excluding bees and ants, about 103,000 described species, 70% parasitoids; stinger is a modified female ovipositor; includes solitary predators, social yellowjackets and hornets, and invasive Vespa velutina.
WASP (broadcast callsign)
WASP is a four-letter radio callsign assigned under FCC rules to AM and FM stations in the eastern United States, most notably an AM station in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Wasp (novel)
Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell (The Wasp Factory is a different book by Iain Banks). It follows James Mowry, a human saboteur waging a one-man terror campaign on a Sirian planet during an interstellar war, first published by Avalon Books.
WASP (overview and disambiguation)
WASP is a five-letter acronym naming several unrelated things: the Wide Angle Search for Planets, the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, the WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots, and wind-resource software.
Wasp (place name)
Wasp is the name of American places named after the wasp, a stinging insect whose English name descends from Old English, including Wasp, West Virginia, and Wasp, Tennessee.
WASP family of actin-regulatory proteins
WASP family proteins (WASP, N-WASP, WAVE1-3, WASH, WHAMM, JMY, WHIMP) are eukaryotic Arp2/3-complex activators sharing a C-terminal WCA/VCA domain, regulating actin polymerization for migration, endocytosis, and vesicle trafficking; WAS mutations cause Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Wasp Network (film)
Wasp Network (La Red Avispa) is a 2019 spy drama directed by Olivier Assayas about the Cuban Five infiltrating anti-Castro groups in Miami, released by Netflix in June 2020.
Wasp venom allergy
Wasp venom allergy is a hypersensitivity to the venom of stinging wasps and hornets, affecting up to 7.5% of adults, and is treated effectively with venom immunotherapy.
WASP-107
WASP-107 is a K6 star about 210 light-years away hosting super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b (Neptune-mass, Jupiter-size, first exoplanet helium detection) and eccentric outer planet WASP-107c.
WASP-12
WASP-12 is a late-F star in Auriga about 600 light-years away, found by the WASP survey, whose planet WASP-12b is losing mass to the star.
WASP-121b
WASP-121b (Tylos) is an ultrahot Jupiter 858 light-years away in Puppis, orbiting an F6 star every 30.6 hours in a nearly polar orbit, with a thermal inversion, dissociated water, JWST-detected SiO, and twin helium escape tails.
WASP-12b
WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP, orbiting its late-F star every 1.09 days at 0.0234 AU. It is inflated, tidally stripped, carbon-debate famous, and the only hot Jupiter with a confirmed decaying orbit.
WASP-132
WASP-132 is a K-type star about 123 parsecs away hosting a rare multi-planet system: hot Jupiter WASP-132b (7.1-day orbit), super-Earth WASP-132c (1.01 days), and cold giant WASP-132d (5-year orbit), plus a trend suggesting a fourth planet.
WASP-148
WASP-148 is a G-type star about 246 pc away with two giant planets: transiting hot Jupiter WASP-148b (8.8-day orbit) and warm Jupiter WASP-148c (34.5 days), the only known hot-Jupiter-warm-Jupiter pair.
WASP-17b
WASP-17b, an inflated hot Jupiter in Scorpius discovered in 2009, orbits retrograde around an F6 star. Once the least-dense planet known (0.486 M_Jup, 1.99 R_Jup), it shows H2O, CO2, and JWST-detected quartz clouds.
WASP-189
WASP-189 (HR 5599, HD 133112) is a bright, rapidly rotating A-type star in Libra hosting WASP-189 b, an ultra-hot Jupiter in a 2.72-day polar orbit with a 3400 K dayside, studied by CHEOPS and TESS.
WASP-19b
WASP-19b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet discovered in 2009 that orbits the star WASP-19 every 19 hours, the shortest period of any known transiting planet at the time.
WASP-39b
WASP-39b is a hot, puffy gas giant exoplanet about 700 light-years away in Virgo, where JWST made the first exoplanet detections of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in 2022.
WASP-41
WASP-41 is a magnetically active G8V star about 163 parsecs away with two confirmed planets: WASP-41 b, a transiting 0.85-Jupiter-mass hot Jupiter in a 3.1-day orbit, and WASP-41 c, a 3.18-Jupiter-mass eccentric planet in a 421-day orbit at about 1 au.