In astronomy, WIMPs,
or weakly interacting massive particles,
figure into one explanation of the dark matter
The particles are called "weakly interacting" because they seem not to have much interaction with normal matter (electrons, protons, and neutrons)
other than gravitational attraction (thus "massive").
also stands for the "window, icon, menu, pointing device" paradigm that characterizes most commercial graphical user interfaces
to the present (as of October 2001).
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