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) Warp is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Publication history Warp first appeared in '' The New Teen Titans'' #14 (December 1981) and was created by George Pérez and Marv Wolfman. Fictional character biograp ...

, 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. ''W.A.R.P.E.D.'' is a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery. It is a concept album with every song dedicated to a facet of war. The majority of the songs already appeared on the second disc of the US edition of Caffery's first album, ' ...

'', 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 games), 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 Darkmatter, a character in animated TV series and the pilot episode '' Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins'' and '' Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' * '' Warp!'', a 1970s Broadway play * '' Warped!'', a television series. * 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 In mathematics and physics, in particular differential geometry and general relativity, a warped geometry is a Riemannian or Lorentzian manifold whose metric tensor can be written in form :ds^2 = g_(y) \, dy^a \, dy^b + f(y) g_(x) \, dx^i \, dx^ ...

, 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) The ''Warp'' machines were a series of increasingly general-purpose systolic array processors, created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in conjunction with industrial partners G.E., Honeywell and Intel, and funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced R ...

, 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 (WARP) is a community or internal company-based service to share advice and information on computer-based threats and vulnerabilities. WARPs typically provide: * Warning - A filtered warning service, where subscr ...

(Warning, advice and reporting point), a community or internal company-based *

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 ...

, a VPN service developed by Cloudflare * 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 Warped linear predictive coding (warped LPC or WLPC) is a variant of linear predictive coding in which the spectral representation of the system is modified, for example by replacing the unit delays used in an LPC implementation with first-order al ...

, a tool used in audio signal processing * Warp (CUDA), data parallelism per instruction proposed by CUDA

Transportation

Aviation

Star-Lite Warp 1-A The Star-Lite Warp 1-A is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Star-Lite Engineering of Englewood, Ohio, introduced in 1996. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, D ...

, 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 Warping was the former practice of letting turbid river water flood onto agricultural land, so that its suspended sediment could form a layer, before letting the water drain away. In this way poor soils were covered with fertile fine silt (or warp), ...

, 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 knitting, a major style of knitting * Warp Drive, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US * Warp drive, a fictitious spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably used in Star Trek. *

Wins Above Replacement Player Wins Above Replacement or Wins Above Replacement Player, commonly abbreviated to WAR or WARP, is a non-standardized sabermetric baseball statistic developed to sum up "a player's total contributions to his team". A player's WAR value is claimed to ...

, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports