Warp, warped or warping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and comics

WaRP Graphics WaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the '' Elfquest'' comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The company ...

, an alternative comics publisher * ''Warp'' (First Comics), comic book series published by First Comics based on the play ''Warp!'' * Warp (comics), a DC Comics supervillain * ''Warp'' (magazine), formerly the magazine and official organ of the New Zealand National Association for Science

Music

Warp (record label) Warp Records (or simply Warp) is a British independent record label founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store employees Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon.Southern, Richard (2003) "Label of Love: WARP", X-RAY, ...

, an independent UK record label **

Warp Films Warp Films is an independent film and television production company based in Sheffield & London, UK. History 2001 – 2012 Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett. It was initially created with ...

, 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, with drummer Kohta Igarashi and guitarist Taiji Fujimoto completing the lineup in 1992. Guitarist Taku ...

* '' W.A.R.P.E.D.'', a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery

Songs

* "Warp", 2009 single by

The Bloody Beetroots The Bloody Beetroots is an Italian electronic music project of musician and producer Bob Rifo (also Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo and SBCR, born Simone Cogo). Established in late 2006, the Bloody Beetroots were initially a duo consisting of Bob Rifo an ...

* "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 ...

'' * "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 migh ...

, 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'' and ''Enemy Zero'', were known for their musical scores. Warp reb ...

, 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! ''Warp!'', also spelled ''Warp'', was an American science-fiction play created by the Organic Theatre Company of Chicago Illinois, in 1971 by co-authors Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund. The play m ...

'', a 1970s Broadway play * ''

Warped! ''Warped!'' is an American buddy comedy television series created by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert that aired on Nickelodeon from January 16 to March 31, 2022. The series stars Kate Godfrey, Anton Starkman, Ariana Molkara, and Christopher Mar ...

'', 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" wa ...

, a fictional faster-than-light propulsion system in science fiction *

WARP-CD WARP-CD, virtual channel 20 (UHF digital channel 22), is a low-powered, Class A television station licensed to Tampa, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Sunshine Broadcasting Company. History WARP originally began as an affili ...

, 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 touri ...

, an annual touring music and extreme sports festival

Science and technology

Alcubierre drive The Alcubierre drive () is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable ...

, a hypothetical means of propulsion also called a "warp drive" *

Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Definitions Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the reference plane, where the reference pla ...

, a warp parameter of the semiconductor wafer *

WIMP Argon Programme The WIMP Argon Programme (WARP) is an experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, for the research of cold dark matter. It aims to detect nuclear recoils in liquid argon induced by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) through ...

(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 OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci. As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 re ...

, a name for version 3.0 of the IBM operating system * WARP (systolic array), a series of systolic array machines *

Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) is a software rasterizer and a component of DirectX graphics runtime in Windows 7 and later. It is available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 through platform update for Windows Vista. WARP ...

, a Direct3D software rasterizer included in Microsoft Windows 7 and higher * WARP (information security) (Warning, advice and reporting point), a community or internal company-based * WARP, a VPN service developed by Cloudflare *

Image warping Image warping is the process of digitally manipulating an image such that any shapes portrayed in the image have been significantly distorted. Warping may be used for correcting image distortion as well as for creative purposes (e.g., morphingBei ...

, 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, a tool used in audio signal processing *

Warp (CUDA) A thread block is a programming abstraction that represents a group of Thread (computing), threads that can be executed serially or in parallel. For better process and data mapping, threads are grouped into thread blocks. The number of threads in ...

, data parallelism per instruction proposed by CUDA

Transportation

Aviation

* Star-Lite Warp 1-A, an American ultralight aircraft design *

Wing warping Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll) control of a fixed-wing aircraft. The technique, used and patented by the Wright brothers, consisted of a system of pulleys and cables to twist the trailing edges of the wings in opposite direc ...

, 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) Warping or kedging is a method of moving a sailing vessel, typically against the wind or out from a dead calm, by hauling on a line attached to a kedge anchor, a sea anchor or a fixed object, such as a bollard. In small boats, the anchor may be thr ...

, 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 ἄ� ...

Other uses

* Warping in agriculture, 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 drawn ...

, 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" wa ...

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