Warp, warped or warping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and comics

WaRP Graphics WaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the ''Elfquest'' comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The compan ...

, an alternative comics publisher * ''Warp'' (First Comics), comic book series published by First Comics based on the play ''Warp!'' *

Warp (comics) Warp (Emil LaSalle) is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Publication history Warp first appeared in '' The New Teen Titans'' #14 (December 1981) and was created by George Pérez and Marv Wolfman. Fictional cha ...

, a DC Comics supervillain * ''Warp'' (magazine), formerly the magazine and official organ of the New Zealand National Association for Science

Music

Warp (record label) Warp Records is a British independent record label that specialises in Electronic music, electronic, indie rock and experimental music. It was founded in Sheffield in 1989 by Steve Beckett, Robert Mitchell and Robert Gordon. It has released recor ...

, an independent UK record label **

Warp Films Warp Films is an independent film and television production company based in Sheffield and London, England, UK. History 2001 – 2012 Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett. It was initially ...

, 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 Judy and Mary (often stylized as JUDY AND MARY) was a Japanese rock band formed in 1991 in Japan by bassist Yoshihito Onda and vocalist Yuki, with drummer Kohta Igarashi and guitarist Taiji Fujimoto completing the lineup in 1992. Guitarist Takuy ...

* '' W.A.R.P.E.D.'', a 2005 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery

Songs

* "Warp", 2009 single by

The Bloody Beetroots The Bloody Beetroots is an Italian electronic music project of musician and producer Bob Rifo (also Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo and SBCR, born Simone Cogo). Established in late 2005, the Bloody Beetroots were initially a DJ duo consisting of Bob Rifo ...

* "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' ''Tomcattin is the fourth studio album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1980. The album features Shorty Medlocke, grandfather of band member Rickey Medlocke, on "Fox Chase". While the album did not spawn any hit singles, it was e ...

'' * "Warping", a song by Death Grips from the album '' Bottomless Pit''

Video games

Warp (video games) A warp, also known as a portal or teleporter, is an element in video game design that allows a player character instant travel between two locations or levels. A specific area that allows such travel is referred to as a warp zone. A warp zone mi ...

, an element in video games that allows a character to travel instantly between two locations *

Warp (company) From Yellow to Orange Co., Ltd. is a Japanese Music publisher (popular music), music publisher and former video game developer. Originally founded in 1994 as Warp Inc. by musician and designer Kenji Eno, the company is best known for its intera ...

, 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 ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' is an American animated science fiction comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a spin-off of Pixar's ''Toy Story'' franchise a ...

'' * ''

Warp! ''Warp!'', also spelled ''Warp'', was a trilogy of American science fiction plays created by the Organic Theatre Company of Chicago, Illinois, in 1971 by co-authors Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund ...

'', a 1970s Broadway play * ''

Warped! ''Warped!'' is an American buddy comedy television series created by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert that aired on Nickelodeon from January 16 to March 31, 2022. The series stars Kate Godfrey, Anton Starkman, Ariana Molkara, and Christopher ...

'', a television series. *

Warp drive A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably ''Star Trek'', and a subject of ongoing real-life physics research ...

, 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 The Warped Tour is a Concert tour, touring Rock music, rock music festival that toured the United States and Canada each summer from 1995 until 2019, and returned in 2025 for its 30th anniversary. By 2015, Warped was the largest traveling music ...

, an annual touring music and extreme sports festival

Science and technology

Alcubierre drive The Alcubierre drive () is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurabl ...

, a hypothetical means of propulsion also called a "warp drive" *

Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Definitions Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the reference plane, where the reference plan ...

, a warp parameter of the semiconductor wafer *

WIMP Argon Programme The WIMP Argon Programme (WARP) is an experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, for the research of cold dark matter. It aims to detect nuclear recoils in liquid argon induced by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) through ...

(WArP), a cold dark matter search experiment *

Warped geometry Warped product F\times_f B of two Riemannian (or pseudo-Riemannian) manifolds F=(F,h) and B=(B,g) with respect to a function f\colon B\to\R is the product space F\times B with the metric tensor g\oplus (f^2\cdot h). Warped geometries are useful ...

, a type of Lorentzian manifold satisfying certain specific properties

Computing

OS/2 Warp OS/2 is a proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers. It was created and initially developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft, under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci, intended as a replac ...

, a name for version 3.0 of the IBM operating system *

WARP (systolic array) The ''Warp'' machines were 3 generations of increasingly general-purpose systolic array processors. Each generation became increasingly general-purpose by increasing memory capacity and loosening the coupling between processors. Only the original ...

, a series of systolic array machines *

Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) is a software rasterizer and a component of DirectX graphics runtime in Windows 7 and later. It is available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 through platform update for Windows Vista. WAR ...

, a Direct3D software rasterizer included in Microsoft Windows 7 and higher *

WARP (information security) Warning, Advice and Reporting Point (WARP) is a community or internal company-based service to share advice and information on computer-based threats and vulnerabilities. WARPs typically provide: * Warning – A filtered warning service, where su ...

(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 Image warping is the process of digitally manipulating an image such that any shapes portrayed in the image have been significantly distorted. Warping may be used for correcting image distortion as well as for creative purposes (e.g., morphing) ...

, 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 Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll) control of a fixed-wing aircraft or kite. The technique, used and patented by the Wright brothers, consisted of a system of pulleys and cables to twist the trailing edges of the wings in opposit ...

, a manner of controlling the roll of an aeroplane * Warp Drive Inc, a US propeller manufacturer

Ships

Warping (sailing) Warping or kedging is a method of moving a sailing vessel, typically against the wind or current, after running aground, or out from a dead calm, by hauling on a line attached to a kedge anchor, a sea anchor, or a fixed object, such as a bolla ...

, 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 An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ', which itself comes from the Greek (). Anch ...

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 Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin ...

, a deviation from flatness due to uneven drying of wood *

Warp (weaving) In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical ''warp'' yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal ''weft'' ...

, the set of lengthwise threads attached to a loom * Warp knitting, a major style of knitting *

Warp Drive A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably ''Star Trek'', and a subject of ongoing real-life physics research ...

, a street in Dulles, Virginia, US * Wins Above Replacement Player, a statistical means of evaluating player production in various team sports