Wimp
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Wimp may refer to:
WIMP, as an acronym, may refer to:
- A cowardlyCowardiceCowardice is the perceived failure to demonstrate sufficient mental robustness and courage in the face of a challenge. Under many military codes of justice, cowardice in the face of combat is a crime punishable by death...
or unadventurous individual - Winfrey SandersonWinfrey SandersonWinfrey "Wimp" Sanderson is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1992 and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 1994 to 1999....
known as "Wimp" (born 1937), retired basketball coach - Katherine McDonald Wimp, better known as Kay DavisKay DavisKatherine McDonald Wimp née Katherine McDonald stage name Kay Davis was an American jazz singer best known for her time with the Duke Ellington Orchestra....
(born 1920), jazz singer - Mary BaumgartnerMary BaumgartnerMary Baumgartner [Wimp] is a former female catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
, also known as "Wimp" (born 1930), former female catcher
WIMP, as an acronym, may refer to:
- Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical particle of matter
- WIMP (computing)WIMP (computing)In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "windows, icons, menus and pointers", denoting a style of interaction using these elements. It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts in 1980...
, an acronym for "window, icon, menu, pointing device" - WIMP (software bundle), referring to web stack of Windows (operating system), IIS (web server), MySQL (database management system), and PHP/Perl/Python (programming language)
- WiMP (music streaming service), an acronym for "WIreless Music Player"
- WIMP Argon ProgrammeWIMP Argon ProgrammeThe WIMP Argon Programme 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 through scintillation light; the apparatus can also detect ionization so...
, an experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, for the research of cold dark matter
See also
- The Diary of Horace Wimp
- Wimpy (disambiguation)
- Farkle (Wimp Out), a dice game that has also been called or is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk