Wick most often refers to:
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Capillary action ("wicking")
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Candle wick, 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
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, 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'', 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
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Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency) (to 1707)
England
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Wick, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Wick, 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
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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, London
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Hampton Wick, London
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Wick (ward), an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council
Wales
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Wick, Vale of Glamorgan
United States
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Wick, Ohio
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Wick, West Virginia
Other uses
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The Wick, house in Richmond Hill, London, England
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WICK, Pennsylvania AM broadcasting station
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Wick (hieroglyph), Ancient Egyptian sign
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Wick Communications (formerly Wick Newspaper Group)
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Wick product, in probability theory
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Wick rotation, in physics
* “‘Wick”, nickname for (private)
Chadwick School in Los Angeles
* Wick, type of aircraft
static discharger
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Wick (surname)
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John Wick'', eponymous character in 2014– American film franchise
* Wick, or ''shadow'', as an aspect of the
Candlestick chart in stock trading
See also
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WIC
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Wick House (disambiguation)
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Wicked (disambiguation)
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Wicking (disambiguation) Wicking may refer to:
* Capillary action, the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces
* Christopher Wicking
Christopher Wicking (10 January 1943 – 13 October 2008), also known as Chris Wicking, was a British screenwriter, often in the h ...
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Wicks (disambiguation)
Wicks may refer to:
*Wicks (hairstyle)
*Wicks (surname)
* ''Wicks'' (TV series), a Canadian television series (1979-81)
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See also
*Wick (disambiguation)
*Wickes (disambiguation) Wickes is a publicly listed home improvement retailer based in the ...
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Wyck (disambiguation)
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Vik (disambiguation) Vik (Old Norse: vík) means wick or bay in Norwegian and Swedish (''vig'' in Danish), and it may refer to the following:
Places Iceland
*Vík í Mýrdal, a village in southern Iceland
Iran
*Vik, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
Norway
*V ...
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Weeks (surname)
The name Weeks is an uncommon English language, English surname, usually either a patronymic of the Middle English ''Wikke'' ("battle, war") or a topographic name, topographic or occupational name deriving from ''Wick'' ("small, outlying village" ...
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