Wake

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Wake or The Wake may refer to:

Culture

• Wake (ceremony), a ritual which takes place during some funeral ceremonies
• Wakes week, an English holiday tradition
• Parish Wake, another name of the Welsh gŵyl mabsant, the fairs held on the local parish's patron saint's annual feast

Entertainment

Places and schools

• Wake, Okayama, Japan
• Wake, Virginia, U.S.
• Wake County, North Carolina, U.S.
• Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S.
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
  • Wake Forest Demon Deacons, this school's athletic program
• Wake Island, in the Pacific Ocean
• Bade Airport, the airport in Papua, Indonesia, assigned ICAO code WAKE

Science

• WAKE (cipher), a stream cipher
• Wake (physics), the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body
• Wake low, a meteorological phenomenon which can cause high winds
• Wake-on-LAN, a signal that activates a device via a network connection
• Wake-on-ring, or Wake-on-Modem (WOM), a signal that activates a device via a telephone connection
• Wake turbulence, the air turbulence that forms around and behind an aircraft
• Wake, a group of vultures

Other uses

• WAKE (AM), radio station in Indiana, United States
• Wake (sculpture), a 2004 weathering steel sculpture by Richard Serra
• Wake (surname)
• USS Wake, the only U.S. ship to surrender in World War II.

See also

• Awaken (disambiguation)

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