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
  • Worms (electoral district)
• 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 (born 1961), American retired National Basketball Association player 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 (2006 film), a 2006 Russian film
• Worm (2014 film), a 2014 American 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 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 helminths (intestinal parasites)
• Caenorhabditis elegans, a genetic model organism commonly called "the worm"

See also

• Wurm (disambiguation)
• Diet of Worms (disambiguation)
• Wyrm, an alternative name for the mythological European dragon