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▪ I. WIMP3 Computing.|wɪmp|
Also Wimp, wimp; WIMPS.
[Acronym f. windows, icons, mouse and a fourth word variously given: see quots.]
A set of software features and hardware devices (such as windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus, etc.) that are designed to simplify or demystify computing operations for the user. Freq. attrib. or in Comb.
1984Daily Tel. 9 July 11/3 WIMP is an acronym for Windowing Icon Mouse Products; in short the state-of-the-art in software technology. Ibid. 11/5 What Silicon Office doesn't have is WIMPs; since all the operations can be controlled with the same 18 commands, it doesn't need them. 1985Pract. Computing May 116 Wimps in the Accounts Department. Chris Bidmead looks at how the coming generation of window, icon and mouse programs are set to change the face of accounting software. 1985Which Computer? July 35/1 An intriguing WIMPS (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer-based System) implementation that does a creditable job of imitating the workings of the Apple Macintosh. 1986Internat. Conf. on Speech Input/Output (IEE Conf. Ser. CCLVIII) 154/1 This paper..summarizes the design for an interface which is intended to make Wimp-type programs accessible to visually disabled users. 1987Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 24/4 Another name is WIMP. This is an acronym for Windows, Icons and Mouse Program{ddd}The windows in WIMP refer to ability to open up separate areas on the screen. 1987Guardian 18 June 15/7 The so-called Wimp interface (windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus) available on the Macintosh and other computers, has changed all that.
▪ II. WIMP, n.4 Particle Physics.|wɪmp|
[Acronym f. the initial letters of weakly interacting massive particle.]
Any of several hypothetical subatomic particles which have relatively large mass but which interact only weakly with ordinary matter, postulated as the main constituents of the dark matter of the universe. Chiefly in pl.
1985Sci. Amer. Aug. 55/1 In 1977 John Faulkner of the University of California at Santa Cruz and one of his students, Ronald Gilliland..considered the effects of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) on the flux of neutrinos by the sun. 1987Nature 19 Nov. 295/1 In his enthusiasm Gribbin goes further and practically certifies WIMPS—weakly interacting massive particles—as the dark matter closing the Universe. 1989New Scientist 15 Apr. 41/1 Theorists expect WIMPs to have a mass in the same range as atomic nuclei. 1991Ibid. 4 May 20/1 WIMPs have also been invoked by astronomers to answer another serious astronomical problem: why the Sun emits fewer neutrinos than the theory of stellar interiors predicts. |