Warp

Warp, warped or warping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and comics

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

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

Albums

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

Songs

"Warp", 2009 single by The Bloody Beetroots
"Warped" (song), 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'
"Warping", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit

Video games

Warp (video gaming), an element in video games that allows a character to travel instantly between two locations
Warp (company), now known as From Yellow to Orange, a Japanese video game developer
Warp (1985 video game), an interactive fiction game developed for the HP3000 platform
Warp (2012 video game), a download only game for consoles where you warp an alien through labs
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

Other arts and entertainment

Warp!, a 1970s Broadway play
Warp drive, a fictional faster-than-light propulsion system in science fiction
WARP-CD, a low-power TV station in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Warped Tour, an annual touring music and extreme sports festival

Science and technology

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, a type of Lorentzian manifold satisfying certain specific properties

Computing

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 software rasterizer included in Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
WARP (information security) (Warning, advice and reporting point), a community or internal company-based service
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
Warp (CUDA), data parallelism per instruction proposed by CUDA

Transportation

Aviation

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 US propeller manufacturer

Ships

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

Other uses

Warping in agriculture, the practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil
Weak Axiom of Revealed Preferences, an axiom in the economic theory of revealed preference
Wood warping, a deviation from flatness due to uneven drying of wood
Warp (weaving), the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom
Warp Drive, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US
Wins Above Replacement Player, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports

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