Warp
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Warp, warped or warping may refer to:
Agriculture[edit]
- Warping, the practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil
Aviation[edit]
- Star-Lite Warp 1-A, an American ultralight aircraft design
- Wing warping, a manner of controlling the roll of an aeroplane
- Warp Drive Inc, a United States propeller manufacturer
Ships[edit]
- Warping (sailing), a slow method of moving a boat in still waters or against the wind
- Anchor Warp, a line (particularly a rope) attached to an anchor
Books and comics[edit]
- WaRP Graphics, an alternative comics publisher
- Warp (First Comics), comic book series published by First Comics based on the play Warp!
- Warp (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
- Warp (magazine), formerly the magazine and official organ of the New Zealand National Association for Science
Music[edit]
- Warp (record label), an independent UK record label
- Warp Films, a side project of Warp Records
- Warp 10: Influences, Classics, Remixes - a series of compilation albums issued by Warp Records in 1999 to celebrate the label's tenth anniversary
- "Warp", 2009 single by The Bloody Beetroots
- "Warped", a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album One Hot Minute
- "Warped", a song by Blackfoot from the 1980 album Tomcattin'
- Warp (album), 1982 album by New Musik
- Warp, 2001 album by the Japanese band Judy and Mary
- W.A.R.P.E.D., a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery
- Warped Tour, an annual touring music and extreme sports festival
Video games[edit]
- Warp (gaming), an element in video games that allows a character instant travel between two locations
- WARP (game developer), a now-defunct video game developer
- Warp (2012 video game), a download only game for consoles where you warp an alien through labs
- Warp (video game), an interactive fiction game developed for the HP3000 platform
- Warp (Warhammer 40000), home of the Chaos powers in the Warhammer 40000 series
- Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, a platform game developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation
Computers[edit]
- OS/2 Warp, a name for version 3.0 of the IBM operating system
- WARP (systolic array), a series of systolic array machines
- Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, a Direct3D 10.1 software rasterizer to be included in Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- WARP (information security), from the acronym for Warning, advice and reporting point
- Image warping, the process of distorting an image digitally
- Softwarp, a software technique to warp an image so that it can be projected on a curved screen
- Warped linear predictive coding, a tool used in audio signal processing
Science, technology and mathematics[edit]
- Alcubierre drive, a hypothetical means of propulsion also called a "warp drive"
- Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates, a warp parameter of the semiconductor wafer
- WIMP Argon Programme (WArP), a cold dark matter search experiment
- Warped geometry in mathematics and physics, a type of Lorentzian manifold satisfying certain specific properties
- Wins above replacement player, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports
Other uses[edit]
- Weak Axiom of Revealed Preferences, an axiom in the economic theory of revealed preference
- Warp!, a 1970s Broadway play
- Wood warping, a deviation from flatness due to uneven drying of wood
- Warp (weaving), the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom
- Warped (company), an Internet service provider
- Warp drive, a faster-than-light propulsion system in science fiction
See also[edit]
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