Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various hypothetical, massive subatomic particles that interact with matter only through gravity and the weak force and that are thought to contribute to a galaxy's missing mass.
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- initialism astronomy, physics Acronym of
weakly interacting massive particle . - initialism computing Acronym of
window ,icon ,menu , pointingdevice . (aGUI paradigm )
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- noun a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- noun a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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What kind of WIMP is afraid of these criminals? slp
Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009
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In a presentation at the X Media Lab conference held in Sydney in late November, de los Reyes described computing as moving away from an explicit interface currently defined by the acronym WIMP - windows, icons, menus, and pointers - towards an implicit one that can be used without training.
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According to police reports the word WIMP could clearly be seen spelled out on the girls neck.
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Police say a Marshall County mother burned the word WIMP into her daugher's neck with cigarettes.
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According to police reports the word WIMP could clearly be seen spelled out on the girls neck.
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Police say a Marshall County mother burned the word WIMP into her daugher's neck with cigarettes.
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The commercial successor to the Alto, the Star, would eventually set many of the conventions we take for granted today: the desktop metaphor, and that odd acronym 'WIMP' - window, icon, expanded the concept greatly, delivering the prototypical menu: the pull-down menu (the one seen in menu bars).
OSNews 2008
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The commercial successor to the Alto, the Star, would eventually set many of the conventions we take for granted today: the desktop metaphor, and that odd acronym 'WIMP' - window, icon, expanded the concept greatly, delivering the prototypical menu: the pull-down menu (the one seen in menu bars).
LXer Linux News 2008
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According to Kahney, the company was inspired to create a GUI computer when Jobs and a team of engineers visited a Xerox research facility and studied a system that was in development called WIMP -- window, icon, menu, pointing device.
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One of the leading candidates for the dark matter particle is something called a WIMP, or Weakly-interacting Massive Particle.
Livescience.com 2008
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