A wasp is any insect in the order Hymenoptera that is not a bee or an ant. Suborder Apocrita See text for explanation. ...

Wasp or WASP may also refer to:

Aviation

• Curtiss 18 T "Wasp", a World War I triplane.
• Pratt & Whitney Wasp, a series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Westland Wasp, a British-built light shipborne helicopter.

The Curtiss 18 T Wasp, also known as the Kirkham,[1] was built by Curtiss Engineering for the U.S. Navy. ... Wasp was the name given to a family of air-cooled radial piston engines designed by Pratt & Whitney, and used in numerous American aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. ... Westland Wasp The Westland Wasp was a general purpose helicopter, basically a derivative of the British Army Scout helicopter, with the requirement of being small enough to land on Royal Navy frigates. ...

Creatures

• Common wasp, the name used in the United Kingdom to refer to a species of yellowjacket
• Sea wasp, several species of jellyfish, including the deadly box jellyfish

Binomial name Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The common wasp, Vespula vulgaris is a wasp found in much of the Northern Hemisphere, and introduced to Australia and New Zealand. ... Orders see text Box jellyfish, also known as sea wasps, are jellyfish-like creatures found in Australia and the Philippines, which can be extremely deadly, with venom in their tentacles. ...

Culture

• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, often abbreviated as WASP
• The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine

WASP is a term which originated in the United States. ... Brief History The Wasp was founded as a weekly satire magazine by the Bohemian expat Francis Korbel and his two brothers in San Francisco in 1876. ...

Sport

• London Wasps, an English rugby union club

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Fiction

• The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes
• WASP (play), by Steve Martin
• Wasp (novel), by Eric Frank Russell
• Wasp (comics), a Marvel Comics character and a member of the Avengers
• Wasp (film), by Andrea Arnold

The Wasps is a comedy by Aristophanes. ... Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by English author Eric Frank Russell. ... The Wasp (Janet van Dyne) is a comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Wasp is an Oscar-winning short film (26 minutes) written and directed by Andrea Arnold. ...

Military

• Curtiss 18 T "Wasp", a World War I triplane.
• USS Wasp, any of ten ships of the US Navy
• Women Airforce Service Pilots, commonly referred to as WASP
• AGM-124 Wasp, an experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile

The Curtiss 18 T Wasp, also known as the Kirkham,[1] was built by Curtiss Engineering for the U.S. Navy. ... Ten ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Wasp, after the wasp, a stinging insect. ... The Women Airforce Service Pilots, also known as WASP, were a group of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Force during World War II. // Creation of the WASP Pilots Jackie Cochran and Nancy Harkness Love independently submitted proposals for... The AGM-124 Wasp is a missile developed by the United States of America. ...

Mobile telephones

• Wireless Application Service Provider

A Wireless Application Service Provider (WASP) provides remote services, typically to handheld devices that connect to wireless data networks such as cellphones or PDAs. ...

Music

• W.A.S.P., an American rock/metal band
• "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a track on the album L.A. Woman by The Doors
• EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant

W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 and had continued success in the 1980s. ... The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat is a 1971 song by The Doors which appears on their final album with frontman Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman. ... The EDP Wasp or Wasp synthesizer was a monophonic synthesizer produced by the British firm Electronic Dream Plant from 1978 to 1981. ...

Programming and Computers

• WASP, Web Application Structure for PHP
• WaSP, the Web Standards Project

Web Application Structure for PHP aka WASP is a free package or framework of software running with PHP version 5 that allows developers to code systems in a more traditional enterprise three-tier model (like Web Logic Server aka WLS) rather than PHPs more usual script-style, code-hacking... The Web Standards Project is a group of professional web designers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). ...

Other

• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
• WWASP, the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs, a program for teenagers who behave in an inappropriate or delinquent manner
• Wasp Man, a series of animated shorts

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