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Wilson (name) Wilson is an English, Scottish, and Northern Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form of ''Will'', a popular medieval name. The medieval ''Will'' is derived fro ...
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List of people with given name Wilson Wilson is a male first name. Notable people with the name include: People *Wilson Ruffin Abbott (1801–1876), Canadian businessman * Wilson Asinobi Ake (born 1955), Nigerian politician * Wilson Alcorro (born 1973), Colombian boxer *Wilson Álvar ...
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List of people with surname Wilson Wilson is a common English-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: A * A. D. Wilson (1844–1920), American cartographer * A. N. Wilson (born 1950), English writer and newspaper columnist * Aarik Wilson (born 1982), American ...
* Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender *
Wilson (footballer, born 1984) Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior (born 31 January 1984 in Santo André), known simply as Wilson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Career Early years After almost ten years in Flamengo's junior team, he began profession ...
, full name Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior, Brazilian goalkeeper * Wilson (footballer, born 1985), full name Wilson Rodrigues Fonseca, Brazilian forward * Wilson (footballer, born 1975), full name Wilson Roberto dos Santos, Brazilian centre-back


Places


Australia

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Wilson, Western Australia Wilson is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning on the north bank of the Canning River. It is a fairly old suburb with parks and close proximity to prominent shopping centres in South Perth. It is favoured by ...
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Wilson Inlet Wilson Inlet is a shallow, seasonally open estuary located on the coast of the Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern region of Western Australia. Description The inlet receives water from the two main rivers: the Denmark River a ...
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Wilson Reef Wilson Reef is a small (4.5 ha) coral reef within the Great Barrier Reef complex of Queensland, Australia. It lies about 30 km north of Cape Melville on the Cape York Peninsula in the habitat protection zone of the Great Barrier Reef ...
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Wilsons Promontory Wilsons Promontory, is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland, located in the state of Victoria. South Point at is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promontory and hence of mainland Australia. Located at nearb ...
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Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area The Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area comprises a loose cluster of 19 small, granite islands, with a collective area of 658 ha, scattered around Wilsons Promontory in the state of Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The three so ...
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Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse is situated on South East Point, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. From its point on the peninsula, it commands almost 360° views of Bass Strait, Australia, Bass Strait. The Wilson's P ...
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Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park The Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The marine park is situated off the southern tip of Wilsons Promontory and extends along the coastline ...
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Wilsons Promontory National Park The Wilsons Promontory National Park, commonly known as Wilsons Prom or The Prom, is a national park in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, located approximately southeast of Melbourne. The national park is the southernmost national ...


Canada

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Wilson Avenue (Toronto) Wilson may refer to: People * Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson ** List of people with surname Wilson * Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender * Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson R ...
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Wilson (TTC) Wilson is a List of Toronto subway stations, subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road at Wilson Avenue. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. History Wilson Station ...
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Wilson Subway Yard Wilson Yard (also known as the Wilson Complex) is the largest of the Toronto Transit Commission's subway yards and bus garages. The subway yard services subway trains on Line 1 Yonge–University. The facility is located on Transit Road north of ...


Poland

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Wilson Square ''Plac Wilsona'' ("Wilson Square") is the chief square of northern Warsaw's Żoliborz district. It is also one of the Polish capital's main transport hubs, with several bus and streetcars stops (opened to the public June 1, 1934). Wilson Square w ...
(''Plac Wilsona''), in Warsaw


United Kingdom

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The Wilson (Cheltenham) The Wilson, formerly known as Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was opened in 1899. It offers free admission, and has a programme of special exhibitions. It was renamed The Wilson in honour of polar explorer Edwa ...
, Gloucestershire


United States

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Wilson, Arkansas Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton. Wilson started as a company town in 1886 by Robert E. Lee Wi ...
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Wilson, Indiana Wilson is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Carr Township, Clark County, Indiana, Carr Township, Clark County, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana, United States. Geography Wilson is located at . References

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The Wilson (Indianapolis, Indiana) The Wilson is a historic Renaissance Revival apartment building located at 643 Fort Wayne Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1905 amid an apartment-building boom; more than fifty such apartment buildings were completed ...
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Wilson, Kansas Wilson is a city in Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States. The community promotes itself as the "Czech Capital of Kansas" due to the role of Czech immigrant settlers in its early history. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city w ...
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Wilson, Louisiana Wilson is a village in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 595 at the 2010 census, down from 668 in 2000. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Wilson is located in northwestern E ...
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Wilson (town), New York Wilson is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 5,993 at the 2010 census. The town was named after an early settler, Reuben Wilson, who built and dwelt in a log cabin on the shore of Lake Ontario at the site of wh ...
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Wilson (village), New York Wilson is a village in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 1,264 at the 2010 census. The village is said to be named after Luther Wilson. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The V ...
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Wilson, North Carolina Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. Located approximately east of the capital city of Raleigh, it is served by the interchange of Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 264. Wilson had an estimated p ...
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Wilson, Ohio Wilson is a village in Belmont and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 125 at the 2010 census. Geography Wilson is located at (39.862506, -81.07 ...
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Wilson, Oklahoma Wilson is a town in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,724 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is home to one of the oldest Assemblies of God churches in Oklahoma, ...
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Wilson, Pennsylvania Wilson is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The population was 8,259 at the 2020 census. Wilson is located adjacent to the city of Easton and is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was ...
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Wilson, South Carolina Wilson, formerly Wilson's Mill, is an unincorporated community in Clarendon County, South Carolina United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 521 between Manning and Greeleyville, South Carolina. Wilson formerly had its own post of ...
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Wilson, Texas Wilson is a small rural city in the northeastern quadrant of Lynn County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 489. History The town of Wilson was established in 1912 by William Dickson Green of Shiner, Texas, and Lo ...
* Wilson, Comanche County, Texas, an unincorporated community *
Wilson, Kaufman County, Texas Wilson is an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, located in the U.S. state of Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2 ...
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Wilson, Utah West Haven is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 10,272 at the 2010 census. It was incorporated on July 1, 1991, combining the unincorporated communities of Kanesville and Wilson. West Haven is located approximatel ...
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Wilson, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Wilson is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: *Wilson, Dunn County, Wisconsin, a town *Wilson, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town **Wilson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Wilson, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, ...
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Wilson, Wyoming Wilson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2020 census, up from 1,482 in 2010. It is part of the Jackson, WY– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. Wilson was pioneered ...
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Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) The Wilson Avenue station is a metro station, station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Moffat Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the L (New York City Subway service), L train ...
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Mouth of Wilson, Virginia Mouth of Wilson is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community, in Grayson County, Virginia, Grayson County in the U.S. state of Virginia, just north of the North Carolina state line. The community lies in the Blue Ridge Highlands section of ...
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Mount Wilson, California Mount Wilson is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. With only minor topographical prominence the peak is not naturally noti ...


Lists of places with Wilson in the name

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Lake Wilson (disambiguation) Lake Wilson may refer to one of these locations: *Lake Wilson (Arkansas County, Arkansas), a lake in Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA *Lake Wilson (Washington County, Arkansas), a lake in Washington County, Arkansas, USA *Lake Wilson, Minnesota, a to ...
* List of peaks named Mount Wilson *
Wilson County (disambiguation) Wilson County is the name of four counties in the United States: *Wilson County, Kansas *Wilson County, North Carolina *Wilson County, Tennessee *Wilson County, Texas {{Geodis, uscounty ...
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Wilson Township (disambiguation) Wilson Township may refer to the following places in the United States: Arkansas * Wilson Township, Clay County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Faulkner County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Fulton County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Pope County, Arka ...


Science


Botany and zoology

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Wilson's bird-of-paradise Wilson's bird-of-paradise (''Cicinnurus respublica'') is a species of passerine bird of the family Paradisaeidae. The first footage of the Wilson's bird-of-paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documen ...
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Wilson's magnolia ''Magnolia wilsonii'', or Wilson's magnolia, is a species of ''Magnolia'' native to China, in the provinces of western Guizhou, Sichuan and northern Yunnan, where it grows in the forest understory at altitudes of 1,900-3,000 m, rarely up to 3,300 ...
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Wilson's phalarope Wilson's phalarope (''Phalaropus tricolor'') is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes nea ...
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Wilson's plover Wilson's plover (''Charadrius wilsonia'') is a small bird of the family Charadriidae. It was named after the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson by his friend George Ord in 1814. Wilson's plover is a coastal wader which breeds o ...
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Wilson's snipe Wilson's snipe (''Gallinago delicata'') is a small, stocky shorebird. The genus name ''gallinago'' is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin ''gallina'', "hen" and the suffix ''-ago'', "resembling". The specific ''delicata'' is Latin for "d ...
* Wilson's spiny mouse *
Wilson's storm petrel Wilson's storm petrel (''Oceanites oceanicus''), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly ...
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Wilson's warbler Wilson's warbler (''Cardellina pusilla'') is a small New World warbler. It is greenish above and yellow below, with rounded wings and a long, slim tail. The male has a black crown patch; depending on the subspecies, that mark is reduced or absent ...


Medicine

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Wilson's disease Wilson's disease is a genetic disorder in which excess copper builds up in the body. Symptoms are typically related to the brain and liver. Liver-related symptoms include vomiting, weakness, fluid build up in the abdomen, swelling of the legs, ...
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Wilson's temperature syndrome Wilson's (temperature) syndrome, also called Wilson's thyroid syndrome or WTS, is a term used in alternative medicine to attribute various common and non-specific symptoms to abnormally low body temperature and impaired conversion of thyroxine ( ...
, a contested form of thyroid deficiency in alternative medicine circles


Physics

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Wilson action In lattice field theory, the Wilson action is a discrete formulation of the Yang–Mills action, forming the foundation of lattice gauge theory. Rather than using Lie algebra valued gauge fields as the fundamental parameters of the theory, grou ...
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Wilson loop In quantum field theory, Wilson loops are gauge invariant operators arising from the parallel transport of gauge variables around closed loops. They encode all gauge information of the theory, allowing for the construction of loop representatio ...
, loop operator in quantum field theory


Companies

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Wilson (company) Wilson ASA is a shortsea liner shipping company that operates about 100 vessels, of which 64 are owned. The ships are bulk carriers in the range of to . The company is controlled by Kristian Eidesvik who owns about 80% of the company. Headquar ...
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Wilson Combat Wilson Combat is a custom pistol manufacturer located in Berryville, Arkansas, that specializes in customizing and manufacturing M1911A1s. First started under the name "Wilson's Gun Shop" in 1977, Bill Wilson started his new gunsmith business in th ...
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Wilson's (Mint Cake) Kendal Mint Cake is a sugar-based confection flavoured with peppermint. It originates from Kendal in Cumbria, England. Kendal Mint Cake is popular among Climbing, climbers and Mountaineering, mountaineers, especially those from the United King ...
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Wilson Parking Wilson Parking () is a Hong Kong-based car parking management company. It first opened for business in Perth, Western Australia in 1962, currently operates in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Mainland China. In Hong Kong, it ...
, Hong Kong-based car parking management company *
Wilson Security Wilson Security is an Australian private security company. In 2014 it acquired the security contracts of ISS A/S Security in Australia and First Security Business in New Zealand. Wilson Security is a part of the Wilson Group which is Hong Kong ow ...
, Australian private security company *
Wilson Sporting Goods The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. The company has been a subsidiary of Finnish multinational company Amer Sports since 1989, and is, in turn, now under the Chinese Anta Sport ...
, American sports equipment manufacturer * H. J. Wilson Co., aka Wilson's, a defunct catalog showroom chain * O. G. Wilson, a defunct catalog showroom chain owned by
Zale Corporation The Zale Corporation is an American jewelry retailer, incorporated in Delaware in 1993. The principal executive offices are located in Coppell, Texas. History The company began in 1924 in Wichita Falls, Texas, when the two Russian-Jewish imm ...
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Wilson's (department store) Wilson's was a full line department store, based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. It first opened in 1882, and closed in 2020. The original business, known as the Boston Store, was owned and operated by the White Brothers from 1882 to 1896. Its origin ...
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Wilson's Leather Wilsons Leather is a U.S. leather retailer, selling products such as leather jackets, belts, shoes, handbags, and gloves. At its peak in 2002, the Minneapolis-based retailer had 763 stores in 46 states and Canada. The company currently operates 1 ...


Fictional characters

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Sergeant Arthur Wilson Sergeant Arthur Wilson is a fictional Home Guard platoon sergeant and bank chief clerk, first portrayed by John Le Mesurier in the BBC television sitcom ''Dad's Army''. Background Wilson was born in 1887, and is carefree, cheerful and well-s ...
, from the TV show ''Dad's Army'' * Wilson (''Home Improvement''), from the TV show ''Home Improvement'' * James Wilson (''House''), from the TV show ''House'' * George Everett Wilson, from the comic strip ''Dennis the Menace'' *
Wilson the Wonder Athlete Wilson the Wonder Athlete was a British comic strip, first published in 1943 in the British illustrated story paper ''The Wizard'' published by D. C. Thomson & Co. It follows the sporting adventures of a heroic character named William Wilson. T ...
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Wilson the Volleyball ''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in ...
, from the film ''Cast Away'' * Wilson, king in the
Gamehendge Gamehendge is the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish. Most of the songs can be traced back to ''The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday'' (or TMWSIY), the senior project of guitarist and primary vocalist Trey Anastasio, writte ...
saga by the rock band Phish * Wilson, a red diesel engine from the TV series ''
Chuggington ''Chuggington'' (also known as ''Chuggington: Tales from the Rails'' since series six) is a British computer-animated children's television series aimed at toddlers, produced by Ludorum PLC (Series 1–5) and Herschend Entertainment Studios ( ...
'' * Wilson, the main character from the video game ''
Don't Starve ''Don't Starve'' is a survival video game developed by the Canadian indie video game developer Klei Entertainment. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on April 23, 2013. A PlayStation 4 port, renamed ''Do ...
'' * Wilson, the dog of Jim in ''
Friday Night Dinner ''Friday Night Dinner'' is a British television sitcom written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused on the regular dinner experience of the middle-class Bri ...
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Other uses

* ''Wilson'' (1944 film), a biographical film about Woodrow Wilson * ''Wilson'' (2017 film), a film directed by Craig Johnson, based on Daniel Clowes's graphic novel *
Wilson (band) Wilson was a five-piece rock band from East Lansing, Michigan, United States. The band formed in 2010 when founding member Jason Spencer was attending Michigan State University. Vocalist Chad Nicefield joined in late 2010. They released three ful ...
, an American rock band * ''Wilson'' (book), a 2013 biography of Woodrow Wilson by A. Scott Berg * ''Wilson'' (comics), a 2010 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes *
Wilson (crater) Wilson is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon's near side, to the southwest of the large walled plain Clavius Christopher Clavius, SJ (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician, hea ...
, a lunar crater * "Wilson" (''House'' episode), a television episode * "
Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on January 11, 2018, through Island Records and DCD2. It was released as the fifth single from their seventh studio album, '' Mania''. A music video was release ...
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Wilson Ornithological Society The Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) is an ornithology, ornithological organization that was formally established in 1886 as the Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association. It is based at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michig ...
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Wilson's School Wilson's School is a state boys' grammar school with academy status in the London Borough of Sutton, England. It was founded as Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell in 1615, making it one of the country's oldest state schools. The school mov ...
, boys' grammar school in Wallington, London, UK * Wilson, the nickname of the first deployment of
The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands, that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and intercept it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. After initial test ...
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Wilson score In statistics, a binomial proportion confidence interval is a confidence interval for the probability of success calculated from the outcome of a series of success–failure experiments (Bernoulli trial, Bernoulli trials). In other words, a binomia ...


See also

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Justice Wilson (disambiguation) Justice Wilson may refer to: United States Supreme Court * James Wilson (Founding Father) (1742–1798), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court U.S. state supreme courts * Alma Wilson (1917–1999), associate justice and chief justi ...
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Willson (disambiguation) Willson may refer to: * Willson (name) * Willson River, a river on Kangaroo Island in South Australia * Willson River, South Australia Willson River is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Dudley Peninsula on Ka ...
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Wilson College (disambiguation) Wilson College may refer to: * Wilson College (Pennsylvania), Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States * Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina, United States * Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky, United States * Wilson College, P ...
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Wilson Creek (disambiguation) Wilson Creek, Wilson's Creek or Wilsons Creek may refer to: In Australia: *Wilsons Creek (New South Wales) *Wilson Creek (Northern Territory) *Wilson Creek (Tasmania) *Wilson Creek (Victoria) *Wilson Creek (Western Australia) In Canada: *Wilson Cr ...
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Wilson Lake (disambiguation) Wilson Lake may refer to Canada * Wilson Lake, a lake of Nova Scotia United States * Wilson Lake (Alabama) * Wilson Lake (Cleveland County, Arkansas), a lake of Cleveland County, Arkansas * Wilson Lake (Columbia County, Arkansas), a lake of C ...
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Wilsonville (disambiguation) Wilsonville is the name of several communities in the United States of America: *Wilsonville, Alabama *Wilsonville, California *Wilsonville, Connecticut is a village within Thompson, Connecticut. *Wilsonville, Illinois *Wilsonville, Nebraska *Wilson ...
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Wilson's theorem In algebra and number theory, Wilson's theorem states that a natural number ''n'' > 1 is a prime number if and only if the product of all the positive integers less than ''n'' is one less than a multiple of ''n''. That is (using the notations of m ...
in mathematics {{disambiguation, geo