WardA district used in a general law city. Similar to a single-member district, except that in Texas, most municipalities that have a ward system elect two…
watch fileA text file that records all nongraphic input and output during an ARC/INFO session. Watch files can be edited and converted to AML programs.
weed toleranceThe minimum allowable distance between any two vertices along an arc. Weed tolerance is a parameter that can be set before adding arc features.
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…
Wide area network (WAN)Computer data communications technology that connects computers at remote sites.
workspaceAn organized collection of documents, content sources, management folders, categories, document profiles, subscriptions, and discussions.
World Wide Web (WWW)Developed by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). Consortium in Switzerland as a distributed hypermedia server.