Worm (disambiguation)
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A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal, most commonly the earthworm.
Worm, WORM or Worms, may also refer to:
Places
- Worms, Germany, a city on the Rhine
- Bormio, Italy (formerly called Worms in German)
- Worms, Nebraska, a community in the United States
Science and technology
- Computer worm, a self-propagating piece of malicious software
- Write Once Read Many, or WORM, a characteristic of data storage media
- Worm, in engineering, a screw-like object that engages with a worm drive
- The NASA logo (worm) which has been retired from official use since 1992
- World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
People
- Dennis Rodman, nicknamed "The Worm"
- Worm (surname)
- Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen (1870-1945), Norwegian engineer and politician, Minister of Labour from 1926 to 1928
- A common oilfield term, sometimes derogatory, for a junior roughneck or inexperienced oil hand
Arts and entertainment
- WORM (Rotterdam), a non-profit foundation focused on experimental art and music
- Worms (series), a series of video games from Team17
- Worms (1995 video game), first game of the series
- Worms?, 1983 computer game by David Maynard
- The Worm (album), a 1968 album by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff
- Worm (film), a 2006 Russian film
- Worms (film), a 2013 Brazilian-Canadian stop-motion animated film
- Worm (Kamen Rider), the villains of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Kabuto
- Worm (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Lester "Worm" Murphy, a character in Rounders (1998 film) played by Edward Norton
- Weapon Of Raid Machines, antagonists in the anime Sky Girls
- The Worm, a 1968 album by Jimmy McGriff, an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist
- "Worm", a song from Houses of the Molé by Ministry
- "The Worm", a song from Out of Exile by Audioslave
- Worm, a science fiction novel by John Brosnan
- Worm, The First Digital World War, a non-fiction book by Mark Bowden on the fight against the Conficker computer worm
- The worm (dance move)
- the finishing move of professional wrestler Scotty 2 Hotty, based on the dance move
Other uses
- WORM (AM), a radio station (1010 AM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee, United States
- WORM-FM, a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Savannah, Tennessee, United States
- Worm (marketing), a market-research technique
- Worm (artillery), a device used to remove unspent powder bag remnants from a cannon
- Worms, a common term for infection with intestinal parasites
- Caenorhabditis elegans, a genetic model organism commonly called "the worm".
See also
- Wurm (disambiguation)
- Wyrm, an alternative name for the mythological European dragon