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WIMP
1. Computing windows, icons, menus (or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers
2. Physics weakly interacting massive particle
WIMP [wimp]
(operating system)WIMP - Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus).

The style of graphical user interface invented at Xerox PARC, popularised by the Apple Macintosh and now available in other varieties such as the X Window System, OSF/Motif, NeWS, RISC OS and Microsoft Windows.

See menuitis, user-obsequious, window system.


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The type of dark matter that Adams and Laughlin assume exists is known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS).
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GLAST will also search for annihilation-line radiation from weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs, which may account for the dark matter.
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One initially promising idea that no longer looks so attractive is the possibility of the existence of previously undetected particles known as weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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