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An industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.
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A habitational surname from Old English.
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The prison in Wakefield, established 1594.
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A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Washington County, Alabama.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Richland County, Illinois.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana.
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A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Clay County, Kansas.
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An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Kentucky.
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An unincorporated community in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
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A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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A city and township in Gogebic County, Michigan.
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A township in Stearns County, Minnesota.
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A number of places in the United States:
A city in Dixon County and Wayne County, Nebraska.
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A township in Dixon County, Nebraska.
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A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire.
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A neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.
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A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina.
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An unincorporated community in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio.
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A census-designated place in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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A village in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island.
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A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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A town in Sussex County, Virginia.
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A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C..
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A ghost town in the village of Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
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A number of places elsewhere:
A suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
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A local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia; in full, Wakefield Regional Council.
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A parish and community therein, in New Brunswick, Canada.
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A village in La Pêche municipality, Quebec, Canada.
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A settlement in Jamaica.
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A settlement in Tasman district, South Island, New Zealand.
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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.
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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
From wake + field.
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