ExpertGlossary acronyms starting with W

12 terms

  1. W — Watt (W) The unit of electrical power equal to 1 ampere under a pressure of one volt. A Watt is equal to 1/746 horsepower.
  2. WAIS — Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) A client/server software system that provides sophisticated indexing of files based on all words in each file and provides scoring and "relevance…
  3. WAL — Weighted Average Life (WAL) average number of years for which each dollar of unpaid principal on a loan or mortgage remains outstanding.
  4. WAN — Wide area network (WAN) Computer data communications technology that connects computers at remote sites.
  5. WFO — Weather Forecast Office (WFO) A National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office.
  6. Wh — Watthour (Wh) The electrical energy unit of measure equal to 1 watt of power supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour.
  7. WHD — Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is the agency of the U.S. Department of Labor, responsible for enforcing the LCA attestations, as well as promoting and…
  8. WSDL — Web Services Description Language (WSDL) A language used to describe the actions that a web service can perform, along with the syntax of action requests and responses.
  9. WSR — Wild and Scenic Rivers (WSR) Act Primary river conservation law enacted in 1968. The Act was specifically intended by Congress to balance the existing policy of building dams on rivers…
  10. WTI — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Also known as Texas Sweet Light, is a type of crude oil used as a benchmark in oil pricing and the underlying commodity of New York Mercantile Exchange's…
  11. WWW — World Wide Web (WWW) Developed by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). Consortium in Switzerland as a distributed hypermedia server.
  12. WYO — Write Your Own (WYO) Program A cooperative undertaking of the insurance industry and FEMA begun in October 1983.