A surname from German.

plural of Wicke

(quantum mechanics) A method of reducing high-order derivatives to a combinatorics problem, used extensively in quantum field theory to reduce arbitrary products of creation and annihilation operators to sums of products of pairs of these operators.

(literally) Eternal torment in hell awaits sinners. / (humorous) People who are wicked must work harder than normal people.

(mathematics) A method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.

(idiomatic) An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.

(US, New England, slang) Outstanding; awesome

plural of wicked problem

(social planning) A problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.

Synonym of no rest for the wicked