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Technology terms

20401. WWABNCP Cite Worldwide Airborne Command Post.
20402. WWG Cite Wideband Waveform Generator.
20403. WWIMS Cite See Worldwide Indications Monitoring System.
20404. WWMCCS Cite See World-Wide Military Command and Control System.
20405. WWW Cite World Wide Web. The WWW is made up of all of the computers on the Internet which use HTML-capable software (Netscape, Explorer, etc.) to exchange data.
20406. WWW robot Cite A variety of search engine that automatically moves through Web hyperlinks to compile databases of available URLs (universal resource locators).
20407. WX Cite Weather
20408. WYSIWYG Cite What You See Is What You Get Display and software technology which shows on the computer screen exactly what will print.
20409. X Windows Cite A system developed at MIT that allows applications to be displayed in windows and shared among different workstations and terminals.
20410. X Windows/Motif Cite ARC/INFO and ArcView operate in the X Windows/Motif environment on all supported UNIX workstation platforms.
20411. X-bits Cite Unassigned overhead bits. Transmitters should code these bits as zeros while receivers are required to be capable of ignoring the value contained in these…
20412. X-dimension of recorded spot Cite In facsimile systems, the effective recorded spot dimension measured in the direction of the recorded line.
20413. X-dimension of scanning spot Cite In facsimile systems, the distance between the centers of adjacent scanning spots measured in the direction of the scanning line on the object.
20414. X-header Cite User-defined, unofficial header field that exists in the message header. X-headers are not specifically mentioned in RFC 2822, but the use of an undefined…
20415. X-ON/X-OFF Cite Transmitter On/Transmitter Off (Telecomm/Computer term).
20416. X-Open Consortium Cite An association of American and European vendors formed in 1984 to promote open systems.
20417. X-Ray Laser (XRL) Cite A laser that generates a beam or beams of x-rays. Also called an "X- raser ."
20418. X-Rays Cite The part of the electromagnetic spectrum whose radiation has much greater frequencies and smaller wavelengths than those of ultraviolet radiation.
20419. x-y mount Cite Synonym altazimuth mount.
20420. X.-series Recommendations Cite Sets of data telecommunications protocols and interfaces defined by CCITT (now, ITU-T) Recommendations. Note: Some of the more common X.
20421. X.25 Cite A standard protocol for data communications.
20422. X.400 Cite ISO standard for electronic mail.
20423. X.400 Connector Cite An Exchange component that is integrated with the message transfer agent (MTA) and can be configured to connect routing groups within Exchange, or to…
20424. X.400 Recommendations Cite Defines the standard interfaces of an electronic messaging system. These recommendations specify the structure of a message handling system, message…
20425. X.400 transport stack Cite Networking software required to support X.400 server-to-server message transport. [Exchange 5.5]
20426. X.500 Cite A set of standards defining a distributed directory service, developed by the International Standards Organization (ISO).
20427. X.509 Certificate Cite The International Organization for Standardization/International Telecommunication Union Standardization Department (ISO/ITU-T) X.
20428. X.509 Public Key Certificate Cite The public key for a user (or device) and a name for the user (or device), together with some other information, rendered unforgeable by the digital…
20429. X.75 Gateway Service Cite A protocol for network interworking which supports communication between adjacent networks and communication thru transit networks.
20430. x86 architecture Cite a computer hardware platform based on the Intel family architecture begun with the 8086 and continuing to the Pentium and later families.
20431. Xalan Cite XSLT stylesheet processor. For more information, see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
20432. XBR Cite X-Band Radar.
20433. XCVR Cite Transceiver.
20434. XDS Cite Exoatmospheric Defense System.
20435. Xen Cite Xen is an open source implementation of virtualization that is freely available at www.xensource.com.
20436. Xenu Cite A software tool to check broken links.
20437. Xenu Link Sleuth Cite Popular free software for checking a site for broken internal or external links and creating a sitemap. See also: Xenu - official site
20438. Xerces Cite Advanced parsing. For more information, see http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/.
20439. xerographic recording Cite Recording enabled by the scanning action of an optical beam on a photoconducting surface on which an electrostatically charged latent image is developed…
20440. XGA Cite Extended Graphics Array.
20441. XHTML Cite An XML look-alike for HTML defined by one of several XHTML DTDs. To use XHTML for everything would of course defeat the purpose of XML, because the idea…
20442. Xindice Cite Native XML database. For more information, see http://xml.apache.org/xindice/.
20443. XIWT Cite Cross Industry Working Team.
20444. XLink Cite The part of the XLL specification that is concerned with specifying links between documents.
20445. XLL Cite The XML Link Language specification, consisting of XLink and XPointer.
20446. XML Cite See Extensible Markup Language.
20447. XML (Extensible Markup Language) Cite A markup language that enables users to tag data in order to delimit it, leaving the interpretation of the data to the applications that read it.
20448. XML Path Language (XPath) Cite XPath is a language for finding information in an XML document. XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document.
20449. XML registry Cite See registry.
20450. XML Schema Cite The W3C specification for defining the structure, content, and semantics of XML documents.
20451. XML searching Cite The ability to search into XML structures, including hierarchical content structures. Industry standards for XML searching includes XPath and XQuery.
20452. XML-APIs Cite For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
20453. XML-RPC Cite For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
20454. XML::DB Cite Provides an XML persistance layer using the postgresql database. For more information, see http://xmldb.sourceforge.net/.
20455. XMLSec Cite For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
20456. XMTR/CVR Cite Transmitter/Receiver.
20457. XO Cite Executive Officer.
20458. XoDis Cite Exoatmospheric Discrimination.
20459. XOFF Cite An abbreviation for the ASCII transmission-control character meaning "Transmitter off."
20460. XON Cite An abbreviation for the ASCII transmission-control character meaning "Transmitter on."
20461. XOX Cite Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (Office Code).
20462. XPath Cite An addressing mechanism for identifying the parts of an XML document.
20463. XPath (XML Path Language) Cite A language that uniquely identifies or addresses parts of a source XML document.
20464. XPG3 Cite An X/Open software standard for UNIX Operating Systems. IBM provides a cshell variable named PSALLOC to make AIX XPG3-compliant, resulting in adding more…
20465. XPointer Cite The part of the XLL specification that is concerned with identifying sections of documents so that they can be referenced in links or included in other…
20466. XRL Cite See X-Ray Laser.
20467. XRS Cite USAF/ESC Staff Symbol.
20468. XS Cite An extraordinarily exported, expeditiously excellent, expressly eXternal Subroutine, executed in existing C or C++ or in an exciting new extension…
20469. XSL Cite Extensible Stylesheet Language. A standard that lets you do the following:
20470. XSL-FO Cite A subcomponent of XSL used for describing font sizes, page layouts, and how information flows from one page to another.
20471. XSLT Cite XSL Transformations. An XML document that controls the transformation of an XML document into another XML document or HTML.
20472. XSLTC Cite A compiling version of XSLT.
20473. XSUB Cite An external "subroutine" defined in "XS".
20474. XT Cite Abbreviation for crosstalk.
20475. XTB Cite Exoatmospheric Test Bed.
20476. XTV Cite Experimental Test Vehicle.
20477. Xwindows Cite Unix graphics interface.
20478. Y-dimension of recorded spot Cite In facsimile systems, the distance between the centers of adjacent recorded spots on adjacent lines measured perpendicular to the recorded line.
20479. Y-dimension of scanning spot Cite In facsimile systems, the distance between the centers of adjacent scanning spots on adjacent lines measured perpendicular to the scanning line on the…
20480. yacc Cite Yet Another Compiler Compiler. A parser generator without which Perl probably would not have existed. See the file perly.y in the Perl source distribution.
20481. Yagi antenna Cite A linear end-fire antenna, consisting of three or more half-wave elements (one driven, one reflector, and one or more directors).
20482. Yahoo! Cite Internet portal company which was started with the popular Yahoo! Directory. See also: Yahoo.com The History of Yahoo! Yahoo! Netrospective
20483. Yahoo! Answers Cite Free question asking and answering service which allows Yahoo! to leverage social structures to create a bottoms up network of free content.
20484. Yahoo! Directory Cite One of the original, most popular, and most authoritative web directories, started by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1994. The Yahoo!
20485. Yahoo! Search Marketing Cite Yahoo!'s paid search platform, formerly known as Overture. See also: Yahoo! Search Marketing
20486. Yahoo! Site Explorer Cite Research tool which webmasters can use to see what pages Yahoo! has indexed from a website, and what pages link at those pages. See also: Yahoo!
20487. yellow alarm Cite An indication provided to a source device indicating a signal failure condition at a sink device. [T1.
20488. yellow alarm signal Cite Synonym yellow alarm.
20489. Yield (or Energy Yield) Cite The total effective energy released in a nuclear (or atomic) explosion. It is usually expressed in terms of the equivalent tonnage of TNT required to…
20490. Yottabyte Cite 1024 (or 1000) zettabytes.
20491. YouTube Cite Feature rich amateur video upload and syndication website owned by Google. See also: YouTube.com
20492. Z Cite Zulu time; the same as Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), i.e. 18z is the same as 18:00 UTC.
20493. Z Time Cite Abbreviation for Zulu Time. See Coordinated Universal Time.
20494. z-value Cite The value of a surface at a particular x,y location (e.g., elevation). Often referred to as spot values or spot elevations.
20495. Z39.50 Cite An ANSI protocol standard for WAN (wide area network) information query and exchange to share library referencing requests via distributed electronic…
20496. ZBTSI (zero-byte time slot interchange) Cite A technique applied to a DS1 frame to ensure pulse density requirements are met, where bits 2 through 193 of each frame are scrambled to minimize the…
20497. Zeal Cite Non-commercial directory which was bought by Looksmart for $20 million, then abruptly shut down with little to no warning.
20498. Zeal - Volunteer Built Web Directory Cite First launched in 1999, Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory which was bought by LookSmart for $20 million in October 2000.
20499. zero Cite Verb. To replace all blocks on a disk with zeros.
20500. zero dBm transmission level point (0 dBm TLP) Cite In a communication system, a point at which the reference level is 1 mW, i.e., 0 dBm.