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Winter Weather Advisory This product is issued by the National Weather Service when a low pressure system produces a combination of winter weather (snow, freezing rain, sleet…
Winter-kill Fish kill in shallow ponds or reservoirs due to oxygen depletion.
Winters Doctrine Provides that the establishment of a Indian Reservation impliedly reserves the amount of water necessary for the purposes of the reservation.
Wipe Slang term for deliberately overwriting a piece of media and removing any trace of files or files fragments.
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization an intergovernmental organization of the United Nations system.
WIPT Working-level Integrated Product (Process) Team.
Wire (Electrical) A generic term for an electrical conductor.
wire center The location of one or more local switching systems; a location where customer loops converge. [T1.222-1991]
Wire house National brokerage firms with multiple branches were, in the past, linked by private telephone or other telecommunications networks that enabled them to…
Wire room When brokerage firm orders to buy and sell were handled manually, the back office of the firm was called the wire room.
Wire Transfer A transfer of funds from one point to another by wire or network such the Federal Reserve Wire Network (also known as FedWire).
Wire Weight Gage A river gage comprised of a weight which is lowered to the water level. The weight is attached to a cable; and as the weight is lowered, a counter…
Wire-to-water efficiency (overall efficiency) The efficiency of a pump and motor together.
wired community Synonym cybercommunity.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) Wired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs) defined in the 802.11b standard.
wired radio frequency systems Systems employing restricted radiation devices in which the radio frequency energy is conducted or guided along wires or in cables, including electric…
wireless Descriptive of a network or terminal that uses electromagnetic waves (including rf, infrared, laser, visible light-and acoustic energy) rather than wire…
wireless access Terminal access to the network which uses wireless technology. [T1.Rpt22-1993]
wireless access mode In personal communications service, interfacing with a network access point by means of a standardized air interface protocol without the use of a…
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) A standard for providing cellular telephones, pagers, and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages
Wireless E911 ESRD/ESRK Number A 10-digit number used for the purpose of routing an E911 call to the appropriate Public Service Answering Point (PSAP) when that call is originating from…
wireless mobility management In Personal Communications Service (PCS), the assigning and controlling of wireless links for terminal network connections.
wireless services provider A company that provides wireless telecommunication service to customers, e.g., cellular service providers, radio common carriers, paging companies. [T1.
wireless terminal Any mobile terminal, mobile station, personal station, or personal terminal using non-fixed access to the network.
wireline A term associated with a network or terminal that uses metallic wire conductors (and/or optical fibers) for telecommunications. [After T1.414-1998]
wireline access Terminal access to the network which uses wireline technology (e.g., conventional telephone sets and subscriber lines). [T1.Rpt19-1993]
wireline access mode Interfacing with the network via a physical wired connection. This can be employed by either a wired or wireless terminal operating in a wired mode via a…
wireline common carrier A telecommunications common carrier that is also engaged in the business of providing landline local exchange telephone service. [47CFR]
Wires A short length of wire rope of varying sizes used to couple barges within a tow.
WIS WWMCCS Information System.
wisdom tooth (WIZ-dum tooth) The last tooth to come in at the back of each side of the upper and lower jaws.
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WIS-kot AL-drich SIN-drome) An inherited immune disorder that occurs in young boys.
With prejudice A declaration which dismisses all rights. A judgment barring the right to bring or maintain an action on the same claim or cause.
Withdraw When a candidate who has filed for a place on a ballot submits a signed, notarized document to the filing authority requesting that the candidate’s name…
withdraw material To deny public access to documentary material on the basis of an informed decision rather than in response to a formal access request.
Withdrawal A withdrawal is money you take out of your banking, brokerage firm, or other accounts.
Withdrawal of certified labor condition applications Withdrawal of certified labor condition applications may take place at any time before the expiration of the validity period of the application, provided…
withdrawn claim a non-elected claim "Withdrawn" is the status identifier that should be used for claims that were not elected (chosen by the applicant to remain under…
withdrawn patent an allowed application for patent in which the applicant files correspondence to withdraw the patent from issue; ;thus preventing it from issuing on the…
Withhold 1. A term used in a pre-planned response option (PRO) to identify the withholding of part of the space or ground weapon inventory against detected threat…
withhold material To deny public access to documentary material on the basis of a formal review and pursuant to the provisions of some controlling authority, such as the [a…
Withholding Withholding is the amount that employers subtract from their employees' gross pay for a variety of taxes and benefits, including Social Security and…
withholding ("pay-as-you-earn" taxation) Money, for example, that employers withhold from employees paychecks. This money is deposited for the government.
Without prejudice A declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are waived or lost.
witness One who personally sees or perceives a thing; one who testifies as to what he has seen, heard, or otherwise observed.
witness disk For a failover cluster, a disk in the cluster storage that is designated to hold a copy of the cluster configuration database.
witness file share For a failover cluster, a file share in the cluster storage that is designated to hold information about the cluster configuration database.
wizard An intelligent, trainable Web spider. Synonyms droid, smart bot, spider.
WK Weak
WKN Weaken
WL Will
WLR Weapons Launch Report.
WLY Westerly
WMA (Wireless Messaging API) The Wireless Messaging API (WMA) is a set of classes for sending and receiving Short Message Service messages. See also SMS.
WMC World Meteorological Center(s)
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction.
WMF Windows Metafile.
WML (Wireless Markup Language) The Wireless Markup Language (WML) is a simple language used to create applications for small wireless devices like mobile phones.
WMLScript WMLScript is a subset of the JavaScript scripting language designed as part of the WAP standard to provide a convenient mechanism to access mobile phone's…
WMO World Meteorological Organization (UN)
WMP War and Mobilization Plan.
WMT (Windows Media Technologies) A collective term for Microsoft's streaming audio and video technologies.
WND Wind
WNINTEL Warning Notice - Intelligence Sources or Methods Involved.
wobble hypothesis An explanation of how one tRNA may recognize more than one codon. The first two bases of the mRNA codon and anticodon pair properly, but the third base in…
Wobe-Mugos E A mixture made from an extract of the calf thymus gland and enzymes (proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body) from the papaya plant, the…
WOC Wing Operations Center.
Wolf Number A historic term for Sunspot Number. In 1849, R. Wolf of Zurich originated the general procedure for computing the sunspot number
Wolfram syndrome A rare autosomal recessive disorder that leads to many different abnormalities, including diabetes mellitus, deafness, and blindness.
womb (woom) The small, hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman's pelvis. This is the organ in which a baby grows. Also called uterus.
WON Work Order Number.
Wonging To back count and only bet when you have the edge. Named for Stanford Wong.
wood A solid lignocellulosic material naturally produced in trees and some shrubs, made of up to 40%-50% cellulose, 20%-30% hemicellulose, and 20% -30% lignin.
Wood energy Wood and wood products used as fuel, including roundwood (i.e., cordwood), limbwood, wood chips, bark, sawdust, forest residues, and charcoal.
Wood Stove A wood-burning appliance for space and/or water heating and/or cooking.
wooly worm, or wooly bugger A popular type of wet fly often used by fly anglers fishing lakes.
word In normal "computerese", the piece of data of the size most efficiently handled by your computer, typically 32 bits or so, give or take a few powers of 2.
word breaking A search technology used to separate text into individual words for implementing search queries.
word length The number of characters or bits in a yyword.
word mark a type of trademark comprised of text
word processing The use of a computer system to manipulate text. Note: Examples of word processing functions include entering, editing, rearranging, sorting, storing…
word stemming A process of linguistic normalization in which the variant forms of a word are reduced to a common form.
word-by-word arrangement A method of filing that treats each word as an individual filing unit See also letter-by-letter arrangement.
Word-of-mouth promotion Personal communication about a product or service from one customer to another.
Wordnet A lexical database of English words which can be used to help search engines understand word relationships. See also: Wordnet - official site
Wordpress Popular open source blogging software platform, offering both a downloadable blogging program and a hosted solution.
Words and Phrases Legally Defined A set of books in dictionary form which lists judicial determinations of a word or phrase.
Wordtracker Feature rich paid keyword research tool which collects data from a couple popular meta search engines, like Dogpile.
Work Authorization If you are not a citizen or a lawful permanent resident, you may need to apply for an Employment Authorization Document to prove you may work in the U.S.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (1) A product-oriented family tree division of hardware, software, services, and other work tasks which organizes, defines, and graphically displays the…
work copy See use copy.
Work Out a way to resolve or restructure a loan to prevent a homeowner from going into foreclosure through a loan modification, forbearance or short sale.
Work Packages Detailed short-span jobs, or material items, identified by the contractor for accomplishing work required to complete the contract.
Work plan Plans that are prepared which detail the scope, direction, and purpose of a proposed Resource Management Plan.
work space In computers and data processing systems, the portion of main storage that is used by a computer program for the temporary storage of data.
work station In automated systems, such as computer, communications, and control systems, the input, output, display, and processing equipment that provides the…
work-for-hire When one is specifically hired to complete a task, such as write a discrete computer program, the resulting product is said to be a Work-for-Hire and thus…
Workday Workday shall mean any day on which an H-1B nonimmigrant performs any work at any worksite(s) within the area of short-term placement or assignment.
Worked or Working The condition of having met a country's requirement that an invention be put to use in some way.
Worker's Compensation An insurance plan that employers are required to have to cover employees who get sick or injured on the job.