Wick most often refers to:
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Capillary action
Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, any external forces li ...
("wicking")
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Candle wick
A candle wick is usually a braided cotton that holds the flame of an oil lamp or candle. A candle wick works by capillary action, conveying ("wicking") the fuel to the flame. When the liquid fuel, typically melted candle wax, reaches the flame ...
, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp
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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
*Hea ...
, a copper-braided wire used to desolder electronic contacts
Wick or WICK may also refer to:
Places and placenames
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-wick (-wich) town, settlements in Anglo-Saxon England
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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 r ...
'', 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
Wick ( gd, Inbhir Ùige (IPA: inivɪɾʲˈuːkʲə, 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 ...
, and
Lerwick
Lerwick (; non, Leirvik; nrn, Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010.
Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland ...
Scotland
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Wick, Caithness
Wick ( gd, Inbhir Ùige (IPA: inivɪɾʲˈuːkʲə, 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 ...
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Wick Airport
Wick John O' Groats Airport is located north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport provides commercial air travel co ...
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Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
Wick in Caithness was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Wick, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Tain formed the Tain district of burghs, return ...
(to 1707)
England
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Wick, Bournemouth
Wick is a village on the south bank of the River Stour in Dorset, England, just short of the Stour's entry into Christchurch Harbour. Along with the nearby village of Tuckton, it originally formed a tithing in the Hundred of Christchurch, before ...
, Dorset
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Wick, Devizes
Wick is a suburb of Devizes in the English county of Wiltshire.
Until around 1800, when expansion of Devizes turned it into a suburb, Wick was a village. The area is in the south of Devizes and lies west off the A360, which passes from Devizes ...
, Wiltshire
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Wick, Downton, Wiltshire
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Wick, Gloucestershire
Wick is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. It is the main settlement in the civil parish of Wick and Abson. The population of this civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,989.
Description
It is situated on the A420 between Bristo ...
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Wick, West Sussex
Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre.
There is ...
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Wick, Worcestershire
Wick is a village in the district of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is located 2 miles from the town of Pershore in the Vale of Evesham, and nestles in a large bend in the River Avon. It is bounded by areas of parkland ...
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Wick St. Lawrence
Wick St. Lawrence is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England. It falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset. The population of the parish, which includes Bourton, Icelton and Ebdon, in the 2011 census was 1,331.
History
The pa ...
, Somerset
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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 a ...
, London
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Hampton Wick
Hampton Wick, formerly a village, is a Thames-side area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and is contiguous with Teddington and Kingston upon Thames. It is buffered by Bushy Park, one of the Royal Parks of London from Hampton and ...
, London
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Wick (ward)
Wick was a ward in the London Borough of Hackney that formed part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency. It fully covered the area of Hackney Wick and includes the part of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
The Paralympic G ...
, an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council
Wales
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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 ...
United States
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Wick, Ohio
Wick is an unincorporated community in Ashtabula County, in the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly ...
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Wick, West Virginia
Wick is an unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States, along Sugar Creek.
The community most likely was named after the local Wick family.
Notable person
* Glen E. Morrell, born May 26, 1936; seventh Sergeant Major o ...
Other uses
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The Wick
The Wick is a Grade I listed Georgian house in Richmond, Greater London, located at the corner of Nightingale Lane and Richmond Hill. The house, designed in 1775 by architect Robert Mylne for Lady St. Aubyn, was for many years the family ho ...
, house in Richmond Hill, London, England
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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 placename ...
, Pennsylvania AM broadcasting station
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Wick (hieroglyph)
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign ...
, Ancient Egyptian sign
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Wick Communications
Wick Communications (formerly known as Wick Newspaper Group) is a family-owned media company with 27 newspapers and 18 specialty publications in 11 states. They also publish websites and other specialty publications. The home offices are in Sier ...
(formerly Wick Newspaper Group)
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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. ...
, in probability theory
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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 sub ...
, in physics
* “‘Wick”, nickname for (private)
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 t ...
in Los Angeles
* Wick, type of aircraft
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 civi ...
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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 1 ...
* ''
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 ''J ...
'', eponymous character in 2014– American film franchise
* Wick, or ''shadow'', as an aspect of the
Candlestick chart
A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency.
It is similar to a bar chart in that each candlestick represents all f ...
in stock trading
See also
* Wic...:
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WIC
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is an American federal assistance program of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for healthcare and nutritio ...
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Wick House (disambiguation) Wick House may refer to:
;in England
*Wick House, Richmond Hill, designed by Sir William Chambers for Sir Joshua Reynolds
*The Wick, Richmond, Surrey, currently owned by Pete Townshend
;in the United States
*Jockey Hollow, also known as Wick House ...
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Wicked (disambiguation)
Wicked may refer to:
Books
* Wicked, a minor character in the ''X-Men'' universe
* '' Wicked'', a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that inspired the musical of the same name
* ''Wicked'', the fifth novel in Sara Shepard's ''Pretty Little Liars'' s ...
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Wicking (disambiguation) Wicking may refer to:
* Capillary action, the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces
* Christopher Wicking (1943–2008), British screenwriter and film critic
See also
* Wick (disambiguation)
* Wicking bed, an agricultural irrigation system ...
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Wicks (disambiguation)
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Wyck (disambiguation) Wyck may refer to:
*WYCK, a Pennsylvanian AM broadcasting radio station
*Wyck, Hampshire, a village in England
* Wyck House, a historic house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*Wyck (Maastricht), a neighbourhood in Maastricht, Netherlands
See also
* W ...
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Vik (disambiguation)
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Weeks (surname)
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