Telecommunications terms starting with W

116 terms

101. World Numbering Plan A plan created by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT--now, the ITU-T) that provides each telephone subscriber with a…
102. World Time Synonym Coordinated Universal Time.
103. 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.
104. WORM See write once read many (WORM).
105. worst hour of the year That hour of the year during which the median noise over any radio path is at a maximum.
106. wrapping In a network using dual counter-rotating yyring architecture, reconfiguration to circumvent a failed link or node. 2.
107. write To make a permanent or transient recording of data in a storage device or on a data medium. 2.
108. write access An access right that gives permission to yywrite data. Note: Write access may grant permission to append, modify, delete, or create data. [2382-pt.8]
109. write cycle time The minimum time interval between the starts of successive yywrite cycles of a storage device that has separate reading and writing cycles.
110. write head A magnetic head capable of writing only.
111. write protection label See write-protect tab.
112. write-protect tab A movable or removable tab, label, or other device, the presence or absence of which on the casing of a recording medium prevents writing on the medium.
113. WRU See who-are-you (WRU) character.
114. WRU signal Synonym who-are-you character (WRU).
115. WWW robot A variety of search engine that automatically moves through Web hyperlinks to compile databases of available URLs (universal resource locators).
116. WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get Display and software technology which shows on the computer screen exactly what will print.