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 Judy and Mary (often stylized as JUDY AND MARY) was a Japanese rock band formed in 1991 in Japan by bassist Yoshihito Onda and vocalist Yuki Isoya, Yuki, with drummer Kohta Igarashi and guitarist Taiji Fujimoto completing the lineup in 1992. Guit ...

* ''

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' ''Tomcattin is the fourth studio album of Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1980. The album features Shorty Medlocke, grandfather of band member Rickey Medlocke, on "Fox Chase". While the album did not spawn any hit singles, it was eno ...

'' * "Warping", a song by Death Grips from the album '' Bottomless Pit''

Video games

Warp (video games) A warp, also known as a portal or teleporter, is an element in video game design that allows a player character instant travel between two locations or levels. Specific area that allow such travel is referred to as warp zone. A warp zone might ...

, an element in video games that allows a character to travel instantly between two locations *

Warp (company) Warp Inc. was a Japanese video game developer. Founded by musician Kenji Eno in 1994, the company was dedicated to creating interactive cinema. Its most successful games, ''D (video game), D'' and ''Enemy Zero'', were known for their musical sco ...

, 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 ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' is an American animated science fiction action-adventure comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It serves as a spin-off of the ''Toy Sto ...

'' * '' Warp!'', a 1970s Broadway play * '' Warped!'', a television series. *

Warp drive A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably ''Star Trek'', and a subject of ongoing physics research. The general concept of "warp drive" was i ...

, 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 The Warped Tour was a traveling rock tour that toured the United States plus three or four stops in Canada annually each summer from 1995 until 2019. It was the largest traveling music festival in the United States and the longest-running touring ...

, 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 {{Short description, Software TechniqueSoftwarp is a software technique to warp an image so that it can be projected on a curved screen. This can be done in real time by inserting the softwarp as a last step in the rendering cycle. The problem is to ...

, 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, an American ultralight aircraft design * Wing warping, a manner of controlling the roll of an aeroplane *

Warp Drive Inc Warp Drive Inc is an American manufacturer of composite propellers for ultralight aircraft, ultralight trikes, light-sport aircraft, amateur-built aircraft, gyrocopter, airboats and other non- certified applications. The company is based in V ...

, 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 An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...

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 Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for comparing the influence of policies on consumer behavior. Revealed preference models assume t ...

, an axiom in the economic theory of revealed preference *

Wood warping Wood warping is a deviation from flatness in timber as a result of stresses and uneven shrinkage. Warping can also occur in wood considered "dry" (wood can take up and release moisture indefinitely), when it takes up moisture unevenly, or – es ...

, a deviation from flatness due to uneven drying of wood *

Warp (weaving) Warp and weft are the two basic components used in weaving to turn thread or yarn into fabric. The lengthwise or longitudinal warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a frame or loom while the transverse weft (sometimes woof) is draw ...

, the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom *

Warp knitting Warp knitting is defined as a loop-forming process in which the yarn is fed into the knitting zone, parallel to the fabric selvage. It forms vertical loops in one course and then moves diagonally to knit the next course. Thus the yarns zigzag fro ...

, a major style of knitting *

Warp Drive A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably ''Star Trek'', and a subject of ongoing physics research. The general concept of "warp drive" was i ...

, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US *

, 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