Wisp

Wisp or WISP may refer to:

In mythology and fiction:

• Will-o'-the-wisp, a floating ball of light in folklore
• Will o' the Wisp (comics), a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Universe
• Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp, a 1917 drama film directed by Tod Browning
• Willo the Wisp, a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981
• Will-o'-wisp (Dungeons & Dragons), a malevolent entity that makes its home in swamps and bogs
• Night wisp, a fictional creature in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
• Wisp, the birth name of a fictional young orphan girl who would later become known as Rainbow Brite
• Wisp is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series, representing the light element
• Wisp is a nature spirit associated with the Night Elf race in the Warcraft series.
• Wisp is a monster in the MMORPG Tibia (video game) that looks like a magical light.
• Wisp (Sonic), the alien race in Sonic Colors
• The hero Io in Dota 2 is a guardian wisp.

As a proper noun:

• WISP (AM), a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
• Wisp Ski Resort, in western Maryland
• Wisp (musician), an electronic artist signed to Rephlex Records

As an acronym:

• WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) survey
• Wartime Information Security Program
• Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles such as the axion, a hypothetical class of particles
• WNT1 Inducible Signaling Pathway proteins 1, 2 and 3 (WISP1, WISP2, and WISP3), human genes
• Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) with wireless connections. Generally a smaller ISP that takes on the challenge of providing broadband for their community.
• Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a software-configurable passive UHF RFID tag
• Wireless Information Service Point (WiSP) is a communication technology for distributing any kind of information via Bluetooth
• Wang Interchange Source Processor (WISP) is a software migration toolkit