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Wick
Topics referred to by the same term
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, WICK, or -wick may also refer to:
01Mathematics, science, and technology
- Wick product, in probability theory
- Wick rotation, in physics
- Static wick on aircraft that discharges triboelectricity
02Places and placenames
- -wick/-wich town, settlements in Anglo-Saxon England
- 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, and Lerwick
Scotland
- Wick, Caithness
- Wick Airport
- Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency) (to 1707)
- Wick River, Caithness
England
- Wick, Bournemouth, Dorset
- Wick, Devizes, Wiltshire
- Wick, Downton, Wiltshire
- Wick, Gloucestershire
- Wick, West Sussex
- Wick, Worcestershire
- Wick St. Lawrence, Somerset
- Hackney Wick, London
- Hampton Wick, London
- Wick (ward), an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council
Wales
United States
03Business, media, and arts
- Wick, or shadow, as an aspect of the Candlestick chart in stock trading
- Wick Communications (formerly Wick Newspaper Group)
- WICK, Pennsylvania AM broadcasting station
- Wick (album), by Nardo Wick, 2025
- "Wick", a 2025 single by Silent Planet
04Other uses
- The Wick, house in Richmond Hill, London, England
- Wick (hieroglyph), Ancient Egyptian sign
- "Wick", nickname for (private) Chadwick School in Los Angeles
- Wick (surname)
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