Wick most often refers to: *

Capillary action Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space without the assistance of external forces like Gravitation, gravity. The effe ...

("wicking") **

Candle wick A candle wick or lamp wick is usually made of braided cotton that holds the flame of a candle or oil lamp. A candle wick works by capillary action, conveying ("wicking") the fuel to the flame. When the liquid fuel, typically melted candle wax, ...

, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp ** Solder wick, a copper-braided wire used to desolder electronic contacts Wick or WICK may also refer to:

Places and placenames

* -wick (-wich) town, settlements in Anglo-Saxon England * ''

vicus In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (plural ) designated a village within a rural area () or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement. During the Republican era, the four of the city of Rome were subdivided into . In the 1st century BC, Augustus ...

'', the Latin word from which the Anglo-Saxon ''-wick'', ''-wich'', ''wic'' and ''-wych'' found within placenames derive. * -wick, from Old Norse ''vik'', bay or inlet, as in

Wick, Caithness Wick ( ; ) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay. "Wick Locality" had a population of 6,954 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011 ...

, and

Lerwick Lerwick ( or ; ; ) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. It is the northernmost major settlement within the United Kingdom. Centred ...

Scotland

** Wick Airport **

Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Wick, Caithness, Wick in Caithness was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner (Parliament of Scotland), commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707, Wick, Dingwall (Parliament of ...

(to 1707) ** Wick River, Caithness

England

* Wick, Bournemouth, Dorset * Wick, Devizes, Wiltshire * Wick, Downton, Wiltshire * Wick, Gloucestershire *

Wick, West Sussex Wick is a suburb of Littlehampton in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around the town and is on the A284 road 1 miles (1 km) to the north of Littlehampto ...

* Wick, Worcestershire * Wick St. Lawrence, Somerset *

Hackney Wick Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in East London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider London Borough of Hackney. Adjacent areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, namely Fish I ...

, London *

Hampton Wick Hampton Wick is a Thamesside area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, contiguous with Teddington, Kingston upon Thames and Bushy Park. Market gardening continued until well into the twentieth century. With its road and rail ...

, London * Wick (ward), an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council

Wales

Wick, Vale of Glamorgan Wick () is a small village and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the coast. The closest towns are Llantwit Major, Cowbridge and Bridgend. The community includes B ...

United States

* Wick, Ohio * Wick, West Virginia

Other uses

* The Wick, house in Richmond Hill, London, England *

WICK Wick most often refers to: * Capillary action ("wicking") ** Candle wick, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp ** Solder wick, a copper-braided wire used to desolder electronic contacts Wick or WICK may also refer to: Places and placenames ...

, Pennsylvania AM broadcasting station *

Wick (hieroglyph) The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hierog ...

, Ancient Egyptian sign * Wick Communications (formerly Wick Newspaper Group) *

Wick product In probability theory, the Wick product, named for Italian physicist Gian-Carlo Wick, is a particular way of defining an adjusted product of a set of random variables. In the lowest order product the adjustment corresponds to subtracting off the ...

, in probability theory *

Wick rotation In physics, Wick rotation, named after Italian physicist Gian Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that sub ...

, in physics * "Wick", nickname for (private)

Chadwick School Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located in an unincorporated area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Specifically it is located at the top of the neighborhood referred to ...

in Los Angeles *

Static wick Static wicks, also called static dischargers or static discharge wicks, are devices used to remove static electricity from aircraft in flight. They take the form of small sticks pointing backwards from the wings, and are fitted on almost all civi ...

on aircraft that discharges triboelectricity * Wick (surname) * ''

John Wick ''John Wick'' is an American media franchise created by Derek Kolstad. It centers on a neo-noir action thriller film series featuring titular character portrayed by Keanu Reeves. Wick is a legendary hitman who is reluctantly drawn back int ...