West
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Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), also known as IMT-2000, is a 3rd generation wireless technology. Supports speeds up to 384Kbps on a wide-area network, or 2Mbps locally.
- Browse Related Terms: 3G (Third generation), 802.11, AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service), CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), CDMA One, CDMA2000, CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data), EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), FDMA (Frequency-division multiple-access), i-mode, JavaSpaces, LAN (Local area network), OTA (Over The Air), PCS (Personal Communications Service), PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), TDMA (Time-division multiple access), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service), W-CDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access), WAE (Wireless Application Environment), WDP (Wireless Datagram Protocol)
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Synonym doubly clad fiber.
- Browse Related Terms: all-glass fiber, macrobend loss, polarization-preserving (PP) optical fiber, polymer-clad silica fiber, Raman amplifier, vitreous silica, W-profile fiber
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Warning/Threat Detection.
- Browse Related Terms: AEW, Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater (ALERT), AWACS, E, EWN, EWS, FEWS, I&W, IWS, Low, mw, Negate Early Warning, PAVE PAWS, Satellite Reconnaissance, SEWS, Strategic Warning, Strategic Warning Lead Time, W/TD, WNINTEL, WS
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Abbreviation for weight per volume. The relative proportions of solid and liquid in a solution.
- Browse Related Terms: amniotic fluid, autoclave, Biofuel, biomass concentration, encapsulating agents, exude, filtration, fog, gas transfer, imbibition, infiltrate, liquid membrane, liquid nitrogen, micro-injection, nucleoplasm, pinocytosis, pipette, Supernatant, volatilization, w/v, wetting agent
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World Wide Web Consortium.
- Browse Related Terms: (Sir) Timothy John Berners, Entailment (logical implication), Inference, Model Theory, Semantic Web, Typed Literal, URI (Universal Resource Identifier), URL (Uniform Resource Locator), W3C, Web 3.0
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- World Wide Web Consortium. The international body that governs Internet standards. Its Web site is
http://www.w3.org/. - Browse Related Terms: context root, document root, OMG, Telematics, W3C, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), Web application, world readable files, WWW
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The World Wide Web Consortium is an independent work group formed in 1994 thatprovides standards like XML.
- Browse Related Terms: Service Characterization, SLO (Service Level Objective), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), Web Services Addressing (WSA), Web Services Deployment Descriptor (WSDD), Web Services Notification (WSN), WSFL (Web Services Flow Language), XML, XML (Extensible Markup Language), XML Path Language (XPath)
Warm Air Advection - the advection (movement) of warm air into a region.
- Browse Related Terms: Advection fog, CAA, CD, Cold Advection, Foehn Pause, Freezing Spray, Frostbite, Heavy Freezing Spray, Lake Effect Snow, Marine Inversion, Sea Fog, Stable, Stable Boundary Layer, Steam Fog, Thermal High, Thermal Wind, upwelling, WAA
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The Wireless Application Environment (WAE) provides a application framework for small devices. WAE leverages other technologies such as WAP, WTP, and WSP.
- Browse Related Terms: 3G (Third generation), 802.11, AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service), CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), CDMA One, CDMA2000, CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data), EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), FDMA (Frequency-division multiple-access), i-mode, JavaSpaces, LAN (Local area network), OTA (Over The Air), PCS (Personal Communications Service), PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), TDMA (Time-division multiple access), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service), W-CDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access), WAE (Wireless Application Environment), WDP (Wireless Datagram Protocol)
A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.
- Browse Related Terms: Amorphous Semiconductor, Contact Resistance, Doping, lattice, Photovoltaic (Solar) Cell, Polycrystalline, Scribing, Series Resistance, Silicon, Wafer
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A thin slice of semiconducting material, such as a silicon crystal, upon which microcircuits are constructed by diffusion and deposition of various materials. Note: Millions of individual circuit elements, constituting hundreds of microcircuits, may be constructed on a single wafer. The individual microcircuits are separated by scoring and breaking the wafer into individual chips ("dice").
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Write Anywhere File Layout. A patented file system designed exclusively for NetApp appliances to optimize write performance. Developed by Network Appliance.
- Browse Related Terms: binding ports, BURT, Data ONTAP, FilerView, NetApp, NetCache, NetCache appliance, NetCache Manager, NTAP, NVFAIL, ONTAP, SecureAdmin, SnapCopy, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, WAFL, Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL)
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Data ONTAP utility to repair filer volumes.
- Browse Related Terms: CFO, cluster monitor, clustered failover (CFO), emulated filer, failed filer, giveback, Head, local filer, normal mode, NVRAM mirror, partner, partner mode, SNMP trap, takeover, takeover filer, takeover mode, TRAP, WAFL check
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A temporary in-memory database that keeps mappings from UNIX UIDs to CIFS credentials.
- Browse Related Terms: CIFS authentication mode, CIFS cred, CIFS share, cred, share, UNIX cred, user mapping, WAFL credential cache (WCC), WCC
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 achieving compliance with many other labor standards established to protect and enhance the welfare of the U.S. workforce.
- Browse Related Terms: Administrator, Debarment, Department and DOL, Division, Occupational Employment Statistics (OES), Reasonable cause, Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Willful violator, Working conditions
The monetary remuneration of employees, including the compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips, and bonuses; voluntary employee contributions to certain deferred compensation plans, such as 401(k) plans; and receipts in kind that represent income. Accruals and disbursements differ in the treatment of retroactive payments. In the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), wage and salary accruals is the appropriate measure for gross domestic income (GDI) and wage and salary disbursements is the appropriate measure for personal income.
- Browse Related Terms: Compensation of employees (paid), Compensation of employees (received), Local area personal income, Overseas adjustment, Personal income, State personal income, Wage and salary accruals, Wage and salary accruals and disbursements, Wage and salary disbursements
Wage rate means the remuneration (exclusive of fringe benefits) to be paid, stated in terms of amount per hour, day, month, or year (see definition of Required Wage Rate).
- Browse Related Terms: Actual wage, Essentially equivalent jobs, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Independent authoritative source survey, Industry, Master's or higher degree in a specialty related to the intended employment, Material fact, Nonproductive status, Occupation, Period of intended employment, Prevailing wage, Required wage rate, Similarly employed, Specialty occupation, Specific employment in question, The Occupational Information Network (O*NET), Wage rate
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