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Wakefield

//ˈweɪkfiːld// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.
  2. 2
    A habitational surname from Old English.
  3. 3
    The prison in Wakefield, established 1594.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Washington County, Alabama.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Richland County, Illinois.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Clay County, Kansas.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Kentucky.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

    "Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health."

  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A city and township in Gogebic County, Michigan.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Stearns County, Minnesota.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Dixon County and Wayne County, Nebraska.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Dixon County, Nebraska.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; A neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina.
  13. 18
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio.
  14. 19
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
  15. 20
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island.
  16. 21
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
  17. 22
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Sussex County, Virginia.
  18. 23
    A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C..
  19. 24
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in the village of Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
  20. 25
    A number of places elsewhere:; A suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
  21. 26
    A number of places elsewhere:; A local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia; in full, Wakefield Regional Council.
  22. 27
    A number of places elsewhere:; A parish and community therein, in New Brunswick, Canada.
  23. 28
    A number of places elsewhere:; A village in La Pêche municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  24. 29
    A number of places elsewhere:; A settlement in Jamaica.
  25. 30
    A number of places elsewhere:; A settlement in Tasman district, South Island, New Zealand.
Noun
  1. 1
    The electron density wave structure which immediately follows an intense laser beam or relativistic charged particle beam as it passes through a plasma; the electric field or potential associated with such a structure.

    "Calculation of the plasma wakefields (driven electron plasma waves) generated by nonevolving drive laser pulses is straightforward."

Etymology

From wake + field.

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