Wasp

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A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp or WASP may also refer to:

Media

• Wasp (novel), a novel by Eric Frank Russell
• Wasp (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Wasp (film), a film by Andrea Arnold
• The Wasp (film), a 1915 short by B. Reeves Eason
• The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes
• The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine
• The Wasp (newspaper), a 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois
• Waspinator or Wasp, several Transformers characters
• World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

Music

• W.A.S.P. (band), an American rock/metal band
  • W.A.S.P. (album), their self-titled album
• "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors
• EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
• The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Aviation

• Pratt & Whitney Wasp, a series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
• Westland Wasp, a British-built light shipborne helicopter
• Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
• Williams Aerial Systems Platform, from Williams International

Military

• Westland Wasp, a shipboard anti-submarine helicopter in the 1960s
• Curtiss 18 Wasp, a World War I triplane
• HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Wasp, several ships of the U.S. Navy
• Women Airforce Service Pilots
• AGM-124 Wasp, an experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile
• The Wasp, a Flame tank used by Canadians in WWII

Programming and computers

• Web Application Structure for PHP
• Web Standards Project

Other

• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)
• WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
• York City Knights or York Wasps, English rugby league club
• London Wasps, an English rugby union club
• Wireless Application Service Provider
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
• WASP (AM), AM radio station located in Brownsville, Pennsylvania

See also

• Common wasp or Vespula vulgaris, a wasp found in much of the Northern Hemisphere
• German wasp or Vespula germanica, a wasp native to Europe, northern Africa, and temperate Asia
• Mud daubers, the common name for several wasps that build their nests from mud
• Yellowjacket, the common name in North America for predatory wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula
• Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
• SuperWASP, or Wide Angle Search for Planets, a British group searching for extra-solar planets
• WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs

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