# Warp

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 games), 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 (1989 video game), a shoot 'em up by Thalion Software
* 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 Darkmatter, a character in animated TV series and the pilot episode Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
* Warp!, a 1970s Broadway play
* Warped!, a television series.
* 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
* WARP, a VPN service developed by Cloudflare that is part of 1.1.1.1 app
* 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
* Warp (CUDA), data parallelism per instruction proposed by CUDA
* Warp (terminal), a command line terminal

## 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 knitting, a major style of knitting
* Warp Drive, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US
* Wins Above Replacement Player, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports