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Warp is a verb and noun pertaining to distortion and twisting, and to lines and ropes used in the contexts below.
Warp may refer to:
Ships and aircraft
- Wing warping, a manner of controlling the roll of an aeroplane
- Warp drive, the faster-than-light movement in science fiction, as used in Star Trek.
- Warping (sailing), a slow method of moving a boat in still waters or against the wind
Computers
- OS/2, where version 3.0 was known as Warp
- WARP (software), a product for IBM mainframes to improve performance from APT International - a former Monaco based company
- Warp (Cypress), a VHDL Cypress development system for CPLD
- WARP (Information Security), from the acronym for Warning, advice and reporting point
- Warp (MT of SM Unit), a Shader Multiprocessor architecture.
- A warp is a Multithreaded SIMT Architecture of the MT (Multithreadead Instruction unit ) that is part of the SM (Shader Multiprocessors) in the GPU design.
Business
- WARP Services / WARP Robotics.com, Working Automated Robotic Products is a automation company that put to motion anything. From wheel chairs to systematizing motion automated guided vehicles, with laser navigation.
Music
- Warp (album), New Musik's 1982 album
- Judy and Mary's 2001 album Warp
- Warp Films, a side project of Warp Records
- "Time Warp," a song and dance featured in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Warp Records, an independent UK record label
Books and comics
- WaRP Graphics, an alternative comics publisher
- Warp, a comic book published by First Comics
- Warp (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
Games
- Warp zone, an area in a video game where players can go from one place or level to another
- WARP (game developer), a now-defunct video game developer
- Warp, an Interactive Fiction game developed for the HP3000 platform
Miscellaneous
- Warp (weaving) the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom
- Image warping, the process of distorting an image digitally
- Revealed preference, from the acronym for Weak Axiom of Revealed Preferences
- WARP, USAID's West African Regional Program
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