Wiper may refer to:
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Windscreen wiper
* Wiper, a Pakistani English term for a
squeegee
A squeegee or squilgee is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control the flow of liquid on a flat surface. It is used for cleaning and in printing.
The earliest written references to squeegees date from the mid-19th cent ...
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Wiper (occupation), a cleaner in the engine room of a ship
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wiper (malware)
In computer security, a wiper is a class of malware intended to erase (wipe, hence the name) the hard drive of the computer it infects, maliciously deleting data and programs.
Examples
A piece of malware referred to as "Wiper" was allegedly us ...
, a type of malware
* Wiper, a term for a
hybrid striped bass
A hybrid striped bass, also known as a wiper or whiterock bass, is a hybrid between the striped bass (''Morone saxatilis'') and the white bass (''M. chrysops''). It can be distinguished from the striped bass by broken rather than solid horizont ...
* Wiper, a term for the moving contact on a
potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. If only two terminals are used, one end and the wiper, it acts as a variable resistor or rheostat.
The measuring instrum ...
* Wiper, another brand name for the
Lawnbott
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Scott Wiper
Scott Wiper (born July 22, 1970) is an American writer, film director, and actor. He grew up in northeast Ohio and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992, then moved to Los Angeles to start his first movie.
He wrote, directed, and starred i ...
(born 1970), American writer, film director and actor
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Wiper (One Piece), a character from the manga and anime ''One Piece''
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Wipers (band)
Wipers was a punk rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Greg Sage, along with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion were hailed as extremely in ...
, an American punk rock group
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Wiper Democratic Movement – Kenya
The Wiper Democratic Movement–Kenya (WDM-K), formally Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya (ODM–Kenya), is a political party in Kenya, which originated as a result of the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. It is headed by Kalonzo Musyoka, w ...
, a 21st-century political party
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The Wipers Times
''The Wipers Times'' was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War.
In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came ...
, a trench magazine
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Ypres
Ypres ( , ; nl, Ieper ; vls, Yper; german: Ypern ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though
the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality ...
, a city in Belgium known as Wipers by the British troops in World War 1
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