ExpertGlossary terms starting with W

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  1. Wavelength The distance between one peak or crest of a wave (of light, heat, or other energy) and the next corresponding peak or crest.
  2. wavelength stability Of an optical source during a specified period, the maximum deviation of the peak wavelength from its mean value.
  3. wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) In optical fiber communications, any technique by which two or more optical signals having different wavelengths may be simultaneously transmitted in the…
  4. Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) An FBI-specified compression standard algorithm that is used for the exchange of fingerprints within the criminal justice community.
  5. WAVEWATCH III One of the operational forecast models run at NCEP. The WWIII is run four times daily, with forecast output out to 126 hours.
  6. wax Water-insoluble esters of long-chain acids with long-chain alcohols. Waxes form protective waterproof layers on leaves, stems, fruits, animal fur and…
  7. Waxes Solid or semisolid materials derived from petroleum distillates or residues. Light-colored, more or less translucent crystalline masses, slightly greasy…
  8. Wayfinding signage Signs to aid the public in orienting themselves geographically within a specific location and which identify functional units within the location.
  9. WB Wideband.
  10. WBC Refers to a blood cell that does not contain hemoglobin. White blood cells include lymphocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages, and mast cells.
  11. WBM Weapons Battle Manager(s).
  12. WBND Westbound
  13. WBS See Work Breakdown Structure.
  14. WBZ Wet Bulb Zero - the height where the wet-bulb temperature goes below 0°C. It is important because WBZ heights between 7000 ft and 10,500 ft (above ground…
  15. WC Wailing Caverns instance
  16. WC/ATWC West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. The National Weather Service's West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, AK has a regional…
  17. WCC (1) See Wing Control Center. (2) Weapons Control Computer.
  18. WCCP An open protocol that when installed on Cisco Routers enables them to transparently redirect client browser Web requests from their target Web servers to…
  19. WCG Workstation Computer Graphics (Computer term).
  20. WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  21. WCP (1) Weapon Control Processor. (2) Weapon Control Platform.
  22. WCS Weapons Control System.
  23. WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty
  24. WDIR On a buoy report, wind direction (the direction the wind is coming from in degrees clockwise from true N) during the same period used for WSPD.
  25. WDLY Widely
  26. WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexon .
  27. WDP (Wireless Datagram Protocol) Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP) works as the transport layer of WAP. WDP processes datagrams from upper layers to formats required by different physical…
  28. WDSPRD Widespread
  29. weak bit A bit intentionally written on a diskette with a weak magnetic field strength that may be interpreted as zero or one and that is written as part of a…
  30. Weak Echo Region (Abbrev. WER) - A WSR-88D radar product which displays reflectivity for up to 8 elevation angles for a radar operator selected location as a set…
  31. weakly guiding fiber An optical fiber in which the refractive index contrast is small (substantially less than 1%).
  32. Weapon Enabling The set of control functions without which defense weapons cannot be launched.
  33. Weapon Engagement Zone In air defense, airspace of defined dimensions within which the responsibility normally rests with a particular weapon system.
  34. Weapon System Control That set of assessment, decision, and direction functions normally implemented automatically to assure that individual weapons are pointed, fired, and…
  35. Weapon Target Assignment (WTA) The assignment of an interceptor to a particular threat object. In Midcourse, a WTA requires in-flight communication between the Battle Manager and an…
  36. Weapons Allocation Designation of a certain weapon to attack a certain threat after Engagement Authorization is given.
  37. Weapons Assignment In air defense, the process by which weapons are assigned to individual air weapons controllers for use in accomplishing an assigned mission.
  38. Weapons Commitment Authorization to allocate certain weapons to designated targets thus permitting checklist actions to be taken.
  39. Weapons Control The varying degree of formal control an area air defense commander exercises over all air defense weapons in his area of responsibility.
  40. Weapons Enablement Authorization to place a weapon into its most ready state but prior to release.
  41. Weapons Free A weapon control order imposing a status whereby weapons systems may be fired at any target not positively recognized as friendly. 321
  42. Weapons Hold A weapon control order imposing a status whereby weapons systems may be fired in self-defense or in response to a formal order.
  43. Weapons Initiation State when a weapon system is to be placed in the highest state of readiness shy of weapon allocation.
  44. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) In arms control usage, weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people.
  45. Weapons Readiness State The degree of readiness of air defense weapons which can become airborne or be launched to carry out an assigned task.
  46. Weapons Release Authority (WRA) The order that gives weapon controllers the authority to fire. (USSPACECOM)
  47. Weapons System Items that can be used directly by the armed forces to carry out combat missions and that cost more than $100,000 or for which the eventual total…
  48. Weapons System Employment Concept A description in broad terms, based on established outline characteristics, of the application of a particular equipment or weapon system within the…
  49. Weapons Tight A weapon control order imposing a status whereby weapons systems may be fired only at targets recognized as hostile.
  50. Weather The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
  51. Weather derivative A weather derivative is a futures contract - or options on that futures contract - where the underlying commodity is a weather index.
  52. Weather Forecast Office (Abbrev. WFO) - this type of National Weather Service office is responsible for issuing advisories, warnings, statements, and short term forecasts for its…
  53. Weather Forecast Office (WFO) A National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office.
  54. Weatherfax See RADIOFACSIMILE
  55. Weatherization Caulking and weatherstripping to reduce air infiltration and exfiltration into/out of a building.
  56. Weatherstripping A material used to seal gaps around windows and exterior doors.
  57. Web See World Wide Web.
  58. Web 1.0 Static, minimally-interactive pages containing photos and text documents.
  59. Web 2.0 Use and design of the web with strong emphasis on reusability and sharing, with information traveling fast and being easy to get to.
  60. Web 3.0 see “semantic web.”
  61. Web acceleration A specific deployment of a proxy server as a front-end accelerator between the origin servers and the incoming user connections.
  62. Web accelerator A NetCache appliance configured as an intermediary server that caches content from one or more servers and provides that content to clients that request…
  63. Web address The path to an object, document, file, page, or other destination. An address can be a URL (Web address) or a UNC path (network address), and can include…
  64. Web application An application written for the Internet, including those built with Java technologies such as JavaServer Pages and servlets, as well as those built with…
  65. Web application, distributable A Web application that uses J2EE technology written so that it can be deployed in a Web container distributed across multiple Java virtual machines…
  66. Web browser Software installed on the Internet user's computer that allows him or her to view web pages.
  67. Web Bug Tiny images, invisible to a user, placed on web sites in such a way that they allow third parties to track use of web servers and collect information…
  68. Web cache A NetCache appliance configured as an intermediary server that accepts requests from clients and forwards them to a Web server or, if appropriate…
  69. Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) An open protocol that when installed on Cisco Routers enables them to transparently redirect client browser Web requests from their target Web servers to…
  70. Web component A component that provides services in response to requests; either a servlet or a JSP page.
  71. Web container A container that implements the Web component contract of the J2EE architecture.
  72. Web container provider A vendor that supplies a Web container.
  73. Web container, distributed A Web container that can run a Web application that is tagged as distributable and that executes across multiple Java virtual machines running on the same…
  74. Web Copywriting The writing of text especially for a web page. Similar to the writing of copy for any other type of publication, good web copywriting can have a great…
  75. Web crawler A class of robot software that explores the Web by retrieving a Web document and following the links within that document.
  76. Web discussion Comments that users attach to Web pages and documents. Known as Web discussions to differentiate from discussion boards.
  77. Web document An HTML (hypertext markup language) document available on the World Wide Web. [Bahorsky]
  78. Web farm See server farm.
  79. Web folder Provides an interface for managing files on a remote Web server. Web folders provide document storage and publishing functionality.
  80. Web Interface The point of access for administrators and end users to the Mail Server via browser, created by SmarterTools called SmarterMail.
  81. Web Mail An interface for sending and receiving email through the use of a browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) instead of an email program (e.g. Outlook).
  82. Web module A deployable unit that consists of one or more Web components, other resources, and a Web application deployment descriptor contained in a hierarchy of…
  83. Web node Synonyms Web site, Web server.
  84. Web Ontology Language (OWL) Family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies, consisting of three languages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full.
  85. Web page An yyHTML document accessible on the World Wide Web. [Bahorsky] Note: The number and types of features that can be offered on a web page is growing almost…
  86. Web page search engine Loosely synonymous with portal. See droid.
  87. Web Part A customizable, reusable component used to display specific information on a dashboard.
  88. Web Part description file (.dwp) An XML file that defines default property settings for installing a Web Part, including references to any other files required to run and display the part.
  89. Web Part Page A special type of Web page that contains one or more Web Parts. A Web Part Page consolidates data, such as lists and charts, and Web content, such as text…
  90. Web Part Zone A container with a set of properties that can be configured to control the organization and format of Web Parts on a Web Part Page.
  91. Web phone See Internet phone.
  92. Web reference A reference that provides access to an available resource by using an Internet protocol such as SOAP or HTTP.
  93. Web resource A static or dynamic object contained in a Web application that can be referenced by a URL.
  94. Web resource collection A list of URL patterns and HTTP methods that describe a set of Web resources to be protected.
  95. Web ring A confederation of (usually linked) Web sites that serve a particular special interest group or that have similar or related content. [Bahorsky]
  96. Web server A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with…
  97. Web server provider A vendor that supplies a Web server.
  98. Web Service A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
  99. Web Services Protocols that enable computers to work together by exchanging messages. Web services are based on the standard protocols of XML, SOAP and WSDL, which…
  100. Web Services Addressing (WSA) The WS-Addressing specification defines transport-neutral mechanisms to address web services and messages.