Wasp (disambiguation)

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A wasp is any insect in the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee or an ant.

Wasp or WASP may also refer to:

Contents 1 Aviation 2 Culture 3 Fiction 4 Military 5 Music 6 Programming and computers 7 Other

[edit] Aviation

• Pratt & Whitney Wasp, series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
• Westland Wasp, British-built light shipborne helicopter

[edit] Culture

• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
• The Wasp (magazine), 19th-century San Francisco magazine
• The Wasp (newspaper), 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

[edit] Fiction

• The Wasps, comic play by Aristophanes
• Wasp (novel), by Eric Frank Russell
• Wasp (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Wasp (film), by Andrea Arnold
• The Wasp (film), 1915 short by B. Reeves Eason
• Wasp and Waspinator are both Transformers.

[edit] Military

• Westland Wasp, a shipboard anti-submarine helicopter in the 1960s
• Curtiss 18, World War I triplane known as the Curtiss 18 T "Wasp"
• HMS Wasp, any of ten ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Wasp, any of ten ships of the US Navy
• Women Airforce Service Pilots
• AGM-124 Wasp, experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile

[edit] Music

• W.A.S.P. (band), American rock/metal band
  • W.A.S.P. (album), their self-titled album
• The Wasp (Radio Station), England-based Radio Station
• "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", song by The Doors
• EDP Wasp, monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
• The Wasp (DJ) Glasgow based dj, resident at MONOX and DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR and head honcho in the mighty "smut hut"

[edit] Programming and computers

• Web Application Structure for PHP
• Web Standards Project
• Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program

[edit] Other

• Common wasp, UK term for a species of yellowjacket
• York Wasps, English rugby league club now known as the York City Knights
• London Wasps, English rugby union club
• Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
• Wireless Application Service Provider
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
• WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs
• "World Aquanaut Security Patrol" , organization in Stingray (TV series)
• SuperWASP, or "Wide Angle Search for Planets", a British group searching for extra-solar planets.