Wing (disambiguation)
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A wing is an appendage used for flight by an animal or an apparatus used to create lift in aeronautics.
Wing may also refer to:
Places
- Wing, Buckinghamshire, England
- Wing, Rutland, England
- Wing, Alabama, United States
- Wing, North Dakota, United States
In fiction
- Wing (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
- Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor Astonishing X-Men character
- Wing (Transformers), a character from the Transformers universe
- Wing, an island in Julie Bertgna's 2002 novel Exodus
People
Given name
- Chan Siu Wing (born 1993), Hong Kong basketball player
Surname
- Anna Wing (1914–2013), English actress
- Brad Wing (born 1991), American-football player from Australia
- Craig Wing (born 1979), rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
- Donald Goddard Wing (1904–1972), Yale Librarian, compiler of a notable short title catalogue of books
- Jerry L. Wing (1923-1994), American businessman and politician
- Joseph Wing (born 1810) and William Ricketson Wing (1830–1908), owners of whaling company J. & W. R. Wing Company
- Lorna Wing (born 1928), Aspergers-syndrome researcher
- Toby Wing (1915–2001), American actress
- Jeannette Wing, computer science researcher and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research
- Warner Wing (1805-1876), American jurist and legislator
Other uses
- Wing (building), part of a building - or any feature of a building - that is subordinate to the main, central structure
- Wing (singer), stage name of Wing Han Tsang (born 1960), a New Zealand singer from Hong Kong
- "Wing" (South Park), an episode of South Park featuring the singer Wing
- Wing (military aviation unit)
- Wing (basketball), a combination shooting guard and small forward, also known as a "swingman"
- WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio, USA
- WinG, a Windows interface in computing
- Part of a backplate and wing, a device worn by scuba divers
- In buildings a wing may be a projection like a wing wall, a subordinate part of a building such as a cross-wing, or the sides of a Stage (theatre).
- One of several botanical terms
- Another term for fender (vehicle), the automobile panel which surrounds the wheel
- A type of spoiler (automotive), an aerodynamic device intended to generate downforce on an automobile
- T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC phone
- Wing IDE, an integrated development environment for Python
- Wing Records, a record label
- "The Wing", informal name of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
- Wing (Waltz), a Waltz dance figure
See also
- Wings (disambiguation)
- Winger (sports), a position in several sports
- All pages beginning with "Wing"
- All pages with titles containing Wing
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