Wick Explained

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

• -wick (-wich) town, settlements in Anglo-Saxon England
• vicus, 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, and Lerwick

Scotland

• Wick, Caithness
  • Wick Airport
  • Wick (Parliament of Scotland constituency) (to 1707)

England

• Wick, Bournemouth, Dorset
• Wick, Devizes, Wiltshire
• Wick, Downton, Wiltshire
• Wick, Gloucestershire
• Wick, West Sussex
• Wick, Worcestershire
• Wick St. Lawrence, Somerset
• Hackney Wick, London
• Hampton Wick, London
• Wick (ward), an electoral ward of the Hackney London Borough Council

Wales

• Wick, Vale of Glamorgan

United States

• Wick, Ohio
• Wick, West Virginia

Other uses

• The Wick, house in Richmond Hill, London, England
• WICK, Pennsylvania AM broadcasting station
• Wick (hieroglyph), Ancient Egyptian sign
• Wick Communications (formerly Wick Newspaper Group)
• Wick product, in probability theory
• Wick rotation, in physics
• “‘Wick”, nickname for (private) Chadwick School in Los Angeles
• Static wick on aircraft that discharges triboelectricity
• Wick (surname)
• John Wick, 2014– American film franchise
• Wick, or shadow, as an aspect of the Candlestick chart in stock trading

See also

• WIC (disambiguation)
• Wick House (disambiguation)
• Wicked (disambiguation)
• Wicking (disambiguation)
• Wicks (disambiguation)
• Wyck (disambiguation)
• Vik (disambiguation)
• Weeks (surname)