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Wick
Wick most often refers to: * Capillary action ("wicking") ** Candle wick, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp ** Solder wick, a copper-braided wire used to desolder electronic contacts Wick or WICK may also refer to: Places and placenames * -wick (-wich) town, settlements in Anglo-Saxon England * '' vicus'', the Latin word from which the Anglo-Saxon ''-wick'', ''-wich'', ''wic'' and ''-wych'' found within placenames derive. * -wick, from Old Norse ''vik'', bay or inlet, as in Wick, Caithness, and Lerwick Scotland * Wick, Caithness ** Wick Airport ** Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency) (to 1707) England * Wick, Bournemouth, Dorset * Wick, Devizes, Wiltshire * Wick, Downton, Wiltshire * Wick, Gloucestershire * Wick, West Sussex * Wick, Worcestershire * Wick St. Lawrence, Somerset * Hackney Wick, London * Hampton Wick, London * Wick (ward), an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council Wales * Wick, Vale of Glamorgan United States * Wick, Ohio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in east London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider London Borough of Hackney. Adjacent areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets are sometimes also described as being part of Hackney Wick. The area lies 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross. Geography Hackney Wick is the south-eastern part of the historic district of Hackney, and also of the wider modern London Borough of Hackney. Adjacent parts of Old Ford (including Fish Island) in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets are also sometimes described as Hackney Wick, due to similar post-industrial land uses and their proximity to Hackney Wick railway station. The boundary runs along Wallis Road and the railway. The core area lies west of the Lee Navigation, here called Hackney Cut, however the parts of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park within Hackney have often also been described as Hackney Wick, and the ''East Wick' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick, Caithness
Wick ( gd, Inbhir Ùige (IPA:[ˈinivɪɾʲˈuːkʲə]), sco, Week) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay. "Wick Locality" had a population of 6,954 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, a decrease of 3.8% from 2001. Pulteneytown, which was developed on the south side of the river by the British Fisheries Society during the 19th century, was officially merged into the burgh in 1902. Elzy was described as on the coast a couple of miles east of Wick in 1836. The town is on the main road (the A99 road (Great Britain), A99–A9 road (Great Britain), A9 road) linking John o' Groats with southern Great Britain, Britain. The Far North Line, Far North railway line links Wick railway station with southern Scotland and with Thurso, the other burgh of Caithness. Wick Airport is on Wick's northern outskirts. The airport has two usable runways. A third is derelict. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick Product
In probability theory, the Wick product is a particular way of defining an adjusted product of a set of random variables. In the lowest order product the adjustment corresponds to subtracting off the mean value, to leave a result whose mean is zero. For the higher order products the adjustment involves subtracting off lower order (ordinary) products of the random variables, in a symmetric way, again leaving a result whose mean is zero. The Wick product is a polynomial function of the random variables, their expected values, and expected values of their products. The definition of the Wick product immediately leads to the Wick power of a single random variable and this allows analogues of other functions of random variables to be defined on the basis of replacing the ordinary powers in a power-series expansions by the Wick powers. The Wick powers of commonly-seen random variables can be expressed in terms of special functions such as Bernoulli polynomials or Hermite polynomials. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick, Vale Of Glamorgan
Wick ( cy, Y Wig) is a small village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the coast. The closest towns are Llantwit Major, Cowbridge and Bridgend. The community includes Broughton. Amenities The village has two pubs, a village shop and a primary school. There are several footpaths and bridleways linking Wick with the surrounding countryside and the village is popular with cyclists. Walks from Wick include those to the local beaches, Traeth Bach and Traeth Mawr, via the Cwm Nash footpath at Monknash or from Dunraven Bay at Southerndown. The cliffs here form part of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast. History Archaeological evidence (such as the earthworks associated with burial mounds, settlements and enclosures) suggests that there was settlement in Wick from around 1600BC when a small proto-Celtic community may have developed, probably farming the surrounding land on a subsistence basis. The site of an ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wick
''John Wick'' is an American action thriller media franchise created by Derek Kolstad and centering around John Wick, a former hitman who is forced back into the criminal underworld he had abandoned. The franchise began with the release of ''John Wick'' in 2014, followed by two sequels, '' John Wick: Chapter 2'' in 2017 and '' John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum'' in 2019. The three films were considered critical and commercial successes, with a collective gross of more than $587 million worldwide. A fourth installment, '' John Wick: Chapter 4'', is in post-production and has a release date of March 24, 2023. Two spin-offs are in development for a 2023 release: the limited series '' The Continental'', and film ''Ballerina'', while a fifth main installment, originally intended to be shot back-to-back with the fourth film, is also in development. Background John Wick ( Keanu Reeves) was born Jardani Jovonovich in Belarus.''John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum'' He was an orphan, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicus
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (plural ) designated a village within a rural area () or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement. During the Republican era, the four of the city of Rome were subdivided into . In the 1st century BC, Augustus reorganized the city for administrative purposes into 14 regions, comprising 265 . Each had its own board of officials who oversaw local matters. These administrative divisions are recorded as still in effect at least until the mid-4th century. The word "" was also applied to the smallest administrative unit of a provincial town within the Roman Empire. It is also notably used today to refer to an ''ad hoc'' provincial civilian settlement that sprang up close to and because of a nearby military fort or state-owned mining operation. Local government in Rome Each ''vicus'' elected four local magistrates ('' vicomagistri'') who commanded a sort of local police force chosen from among the people of the ''vicus'' by lot. Occasionally the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
-wich Town
A "-''wich'' town" is a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and tradean " emporium". The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon suffix , signifying "a dwelling or fortified place". Such settlements were usually coastal and many have left material traces found during excavation. Eilert Ekwall wrote: As well as ''-wich'', ''-'' was the origin of the endings and , as, for example, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire. Four former "-''wīc'' towns" are known in England as the consequence of excavation. Two of these Jorvik (Jorwic) in present-day York and Lundenwic near Londonare waterfront sites, while the other two, Hamwic in Southampton and Gipeswic (Gippeswic) in Ipswich are further inland.R. Hodges, ''The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: archaeology and the beginnings of English society'', 1989:69–104; and, as emporia, C. Scull, "Urban centres in pre-Viking England?" in J. Hines, ed. ''The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick (surname)
An English topographic name for someone who lived on an outlying farm; it is a modern variation of the Anglo-Saxon ''wic''. The surname is also of German origin. People * Cole Wick (born 1993), American athlete and NFL player * Denis Wick (born 1932), British orchestral trombonist * Douglas Wick (born 1954), American movie producer * Emily Wick, American academic and MIT professor * Frances Wick (1875–1941), American physicist * Gian-Carlo Wick (1909–1992), Italian theoretical physicist * Hal Wick (1944–2018), American politician * Helmut Wick (1915–1940), German Luftwaffe fighter pilot * John Wick (game designer) * John Wick, a whistleblower responsible for the disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament * Rowan Wick (born 1992), Canadian baseball player * Stan Wick, (born 1984) Swiss-born Irish ice hockey centre, currently contracted to HC Ambrí-Piotta. * Walter Wick (born 1953), American artist and photographer * William W. Wick (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Static Discharger
Static dischargers, also called static wicks or static discharge wicks, are devices used to remove static electricity from aircraft in flight. They take the form of small sticks pointing backwards from the wings, and are fitted on almost all civilian aircraft. Function Precipitation static is an electrical charge on an airplane caused by flying through rain, snow, ice, or dust particles. Charge also accumulates through friction between the aircraft hull and the air. When the aircraft charge is great enough, it discharges into the surrounding air. Without static dischargers, the charge discharges in large batches through pointed aircraft extremities, such as antennas, wing tips, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, and other protrusions. The discharge creates a broad-band radio frequency noise from DC to 1000 MHz, which can affect aircraft communication. To control this discharge, so as to allow the continuous operation of navigation and radio communication systems, stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chadwick School
Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located in an unincorporated area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Specifically it is located at the top of the neighborhood referred to as Academy Hill, which is bounded by a canyon, a precipice, Crenshaw Boulevard, and Palos Verdes Drive North. History The school was founded in 1935 by Margaret Lee Chadwick and Commander Joseph Chadwick in San Pedro, California. In 1938, the school moved to Palos Verdes, California. In the beginning, Chadwick was an open-air day and boarding school for 75 students. After the retirement of the Chadwick family in 1963, the school created a board of trustees and in 1968 discontinued its boarding program. In 1972, Chadwick joined the Cum Laude Society. Up until the 1970s, the school owned all of the hill leading up to it, which was sold off to establish the school's endowment. Since then, the school has opened more buildings, a gymnasium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wick Rotation
In physics, Wick rotation, named after Italian physicist Gian Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable. This transformation is also used to find solutions to problems in quantum mechanics and other areas. Overview Wick rotation is motivated by the observation that the Minkowski metric in natural units (with metric signature convention) :ds^2 = -\left(dt^2\right) + dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 and the four-dimensional Euclidean metric :ds^2 = d\tau^2 + dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 are equivalent if one permits the coordinate to take on imaginary values. The Minkowski metric becomes Euclidean when is restricted to the imaginary axis, and vice versa. Taking a problem expressed in Minkowski space with coordinates , and substituting sometimes yields a problem in real Euclidean coordinates wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solder Wick
In electronics, desoldering is the removal of solder and components from a Printed circuit board, circuit board for troubleshooting, repair, replacement, and salvage. Tools Desoldering tools and materials include the following: *Solder wick *Heat guns, also called hot air guns *Desoldering pump *Removal alloys *Removal fluxes *Heated soldering tweezers *Various picks and tweezers for tasks such as pulling at, holding, removing, and scraping components. *Vacuum and pressure pumps with specialized heater tips and nozzles *Rework stations, used to repair printed circuit board assemblies that fail factory test. Terminology is not totally standardised. Anything with a base unit with provision to maintain a stable temperature, pump air in either direction, etc., is often called a "station" (preceded by rework, soldering, desoldering, hot air); one, or sometimes more, tools may be connected to a station, e.g., a rework station may accommodate a soldering iron and hot air head. A solderi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
