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Warp, warped or warping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and comics

• WaRP Graphics, 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), an independent UK record label
  • Warp Films, 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
• W.A.R.P.E.D., a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery

Songs

• "Warp", 2009 single by The Bloody Beetroots
• "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'
• "Warping", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit

Video games

• Warp (video gaming), an element in video games that allows a character to travel instantly between two locations
• Warp (company), 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!, a 1970s Broadway play
• Warp drive, a fictional faster-than-light propulsion system in science fiction
• WARP-CD, a low-power TV station in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, US
• Warped Tour, an annual touring music and extreme sports festival

Science and technology

• Alcubierre drive, a hypothetical means of propulsion also called a "warp drive"
• Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates, a warp parameter of the semiconductor wafer
• WIMP Argon Programme (WArP), a cold dark matter search experiment
• Warped geometry, a type of Lorentzian manifold satisfying certain specific properties

Computing

• OS/2 Warp, a name for version 3.0 of the IBM operating system
• WARP (systolic array), a series of systolic array machines
• Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, 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 service
• Image warping, the process of distorting an image digitally
• Softwarp, 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
• Data parallelism per instruction proposed by CUDA

Transportation

Aviation

• Star-Lite Warp 1-A, an American ultralight aircraft design
• Wing warping, a manner of controlling the roll of an aeroplane
• Warp Drive Inc, a US propeller manufacturer

Ships

• Warping (sailing), 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

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, an axiom in the economic theory of revealed preference
• Wood warping, a deviation from flatness due to uneven drying of wood
• Warp (weaving), the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom
• Warp Drive, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US
• Wins Above Replacement Player, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports