The Hacker Acronym & Abbreviation Knowledgebase v2.14
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| W3 | World Wide Web |
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World Wide Web Consortium |
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| WA | Write Audit | ||||||
| WAB | |
Windows Address Book (usually as .wab) |
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| WABI | Windows Application Binary Interface | |
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| WABM | Write A Better Manual |
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| WACK | Wait for Acknowledgment | ||||||
| WACS | Western And Central States | ||||||
| WADL | |
Web Application Description Language |
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| WAE | Wireless Application Environment |
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| WAF | Web Application Firewall |
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| WAG | Wild Ass Guess |
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| WAG | Wireless Applications Group | ||||||
| WAH | Working At Home |
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| WAI | |
Web Accessibility Initiative |
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| WAI-ARIA | |
Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Application |
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| WAIK | |
Windows Automated Installation Kit (sometimes as Windows AIK) |
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| WAIS | |
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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| WAIS | Wide Area Information Server / Wide Area Information Service | |
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| WAITS | Wide Area Information Transfer System | ||||||
| WAMIS | Wireless, Adaptive and Mobile Information System | ||||||
| WAMP | Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP (software platform) |
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| WAN | Wide Area Network |  |
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| WAP | Wireless Access Point | |
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| WAP | |
Wireless Access Protocol / Wireless Application Protocol | |||||
| WARC | World Administrative Radio Conference | ||||||
| WARP | |
Weather And Radar Processor systems | |||||
| WAS | |
WebSphere Application Server | |||||
| WAS | Windows Application Server | ||||||
| WASP | Web Application Service Providers | ||||||
| WASP | Wireless Application Service Provider | ||||||
| WASU | Wireless Access Subscriber Unit | ||||||
| WATS | Wide Area Telecommunications Service / Wide Area Telephone Service | ||||||
| WAV | Wave (waveform) data file | ||||||
| WAVES | Waveform And Vector Exchange Specification | ||||||
| WB | WideBand | ||||||
| WBC | WideBand Channel | ||||||
| WBEM | Web-Based Enterprise Management (initiative) | ||||||
| WBMP | Wireless Bitmap | ||||||
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure | ||||||
| WBS | Write Back Soon |
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| WBT | Web-Based Training | ||||||
| WBT | Windows-Based Terminal | ||||||
| WC | |
WildCat! (BBS Software) | |||||
| WC | Wire Center | ||||||
| WCAG | |
(WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines |
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| WCC | World Congress on Computing | |
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| WCCP | Web Cache Control Protocol | |
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| WCDMA | Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access | ||||||
| W-CDMA | Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access | ||||||
| WCF | |
Windows Communication Foundation | |
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| WCIVR | |
West Coast Institute of Virus Research | |||||
| WCM | Web Content Management | ||||||
| WCMS | Web Content Management System | ||||||
| WCPC | Wire Center Planning Center | ||||||
| WCSS | |
WAP Cascading Style Sheets (sometimes as W-CSS) |
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| WCU | Water Cooling Unit | ||||||
| WD | |
Western Digital |
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| WD | Working Document / Working Draft | ||||||
| WDCS | Wideband Digital Cross-connect System | ||||||
| WDDM | |
Windows Display Driver Model | |||||
| WDF | |
(Microsoft) Windows Driver Foundation / Windows Driver Frameworks |
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| WDG | |
Web Design Group | |
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| WDK | |
[Microsoft] Windows Driver Kit | |||||
| WDM | Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
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| WDM | Windows Driver Model | ||||||
| WDMA | Wavelength Division Multiple Access | |
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| WDP | Wireless Datagram Protocol | ||||||
| WDS | |
Windows Deployment Services |
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| WDS | Wireless Distribution System | ||||||
| WDT | Watch Dog Timer | |
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| WDTR | Wide Data Transfer Request |
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| WEA | Web-Enabled Application | ||||||
| WEBDAV | Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (usually as WebDAV) | ||||||
| WEC | |
Westinghouse Electric Corporation | |||||
| WECA | |
Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (now known as Wi-Fi Alliance) | |
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| WEDI | Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange | ||||||
| WEFT | |
Web Embedding Fonts Tool | |
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| WELAC | Western Europe Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation | ||||||
| WELL | |
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link | |||||
| WEP | Watchguard Event Processor | ||||||
| WEP | Well-known Entry Point | ||||||
| WEP | Windows Entry Point | ||||||
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Wired Equivalent Privacy |
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| WEPN | |
Worldwide Electronic Publishing Network | |||||
| WER | |
Windows Error Reporting | |||||
| WES | Western Electronics Switching | ||||||
| WESST | Western Engineering Student Society Team | ||||||
| WF | WorkFlow | ||||||
| WFC | |
Windows Foundation Classes |
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| WFH | Work For Hire |
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| WFH | Working From Home |
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| WFM | Wired for Management (usually as WfM) | ||||||
| WFM | Workforce Management (sometimes as WfM) |
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| WFM | Works For Me |
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| WFMC | |
Workflow Management Coalition (usually as WfMC) |
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| WFMTUG | World Federation of MAP / TOP Users' Group | ||||||
| WFO | Work Force Optimization | ||||||
| WFQ | Weighted Fair Queuing | ||||||
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Windows For Workgroups (sometimes as WfW) |
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| WG | Wicked Grin |
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| WG | Working Group | ||||||
| WH | Watt-Hour | ||||||
| WHATWG | |
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group | |
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| WHQL | |
Windows Hardware Quality Labs | |||||
| WIA | Windows Image Acquisition / Windows Imaging Architecture | ||||||
| WIC | WAN Interface Card | ||||||
| WICD | Web Integrated Compound Document | ||||||
| WIDE | Widely Interconnected Distributed Environment | ||||||
| WIDL | Web Interface Definition Language | ||||||
| WIF | Web Interface Utility | ||||||
| WIF | |
Workgroup Information File | |||||
| WIFI | |
Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11) | |||||
| WI-FI | |
Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11) | |||||
| WIL | |
Windows Interface Language | |||||
| WIM | |
Windows IMaging format (also as .wim file extension) |
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| WIMP | Window Icon Mouse Pointer (interface) | |
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| WIMP | Windows IIS MySQL PHP (platform) | |
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| WIN | |
Windows |
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| WIN | Wissenschaftsnetz (science network) | |
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| WIN2K | |
Windows 2000 |
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| WINDO | Wide Information Network for Data Online | ||||||
| WINE | |
Wine Is Not An Emulator | |
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| WINGS | |
Web Interactive Network of Government Services | |||||
| WINS | Warehouse Information Network Standard | ||||||
| WINS | Windows Internet Name Service | ||||||
| WINSOCK | Windows Sockets | ||||||
| WIP | Work In Progress/Process | ||||||
| WIP | Workcenter Information Package | ||||||
| WIP | |
Workforce Improvement Program | |||||
| WIPO | |
World Intellectual Property Organization | |
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| WISP | Wireless Internet Service Provider | ||||||
| WITT | |
Workstation Interactive Test Tool | |||||
| WL | Wright-Patterson Laboratory | ||||||
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network | ||||||
| WLANA | |
Wireless Local Area Network Alliance | |||||
| WLIF | Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum | ||||||
| WLK | |
[Microsoft] Windows Logo Kit | |||||
| WLL | Wireless Local Loop | ||||||
| WLNP | Wireless Local Number Portability | ||||||
| WM | Work Manager | ||||||
| WMA | |
Windows Media Audio | |||||
| WMA | Wireless Messaging API | |
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| WME | |
Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions |
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| WMF | Windows Metafile (usually as .WMF) | ||||||
| WMF | Workload Monitoring Function | ||||||
| WMI | |
Windows Management Instrumentation | |||||
| WMIC | |
Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line | |||||
| WML | Wireless Markup Language | ||||||
| WMM | |
Wi-Fi MultiMedia |
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| WMS | Warehouse Management System | ||||||
| WNIM | Wide - area Network Interface Module | ||||||
| WNM | Wireless Network Management | ||||||
| WNOHGB | Where No One Has Gone Before | ||||||
| WO | Without | ||||||
| WOFF | |
Web Open Font Format |
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| WORM | Write Once Read Many | ||||||
| WOS | Workstation Operation System | ||||||
| WOSA | |
Windows Open System Architecture | |||||
| WOT | |
Web Of Trust |
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| WOW | |
Windows On Windows (layer) |
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| WOW | |
World of Warcraft (usually as WoW) |
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| WOW | |
World Organization of Webmasters | |
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| WOW64 | |
Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit (sometimes as WoW64) |
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| WP | White Pages | ||||||
| WP | Word Processor / Word Processing |
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| WP | |
WordPerfect |
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| WP | Working Party | |
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| WPA | |
Western Publications Association | |
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| WPA | |
Wi-Fi Protected Access |
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| WPA | |
Windows Product Activation | |||||
| WPAD | Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (protocol) | ||||||
| WPAN | Wireless Personal Area Network | ||||||
| WPD | |
Windows Portable Device | |||||
| WPD | Windows Printer Description (file) | ||||||
| WPE | |
Windows Protection Error | |||||
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World Pirate Echo | |||||
| WPF | |
Windows Presentation Foundation | |||||
| WPG | |
WordPerfect Graphics (format) (usually .WPG) | |||||
| WPM | Words Per Minute (usually as wpm) | |
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| WPS | |
Wi-Fi Protected Setup |
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| WPS | Word Processing Software |
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| WPS | Words Per Second |
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| WQL | |
WMI Query Language | |
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| WRHC | |
West Romanian Hackers Corporation |
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| WRQ | |
Walker Richer & Quinn |
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| WRT | With Regard To / With Respect To |
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| WRU | Who Are You |
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| WS | WorkStation | ||||||
| WSAD | |
WebSphere Studio Application Developer | |||||
| WSAT | WinSock Application Programming Interface Test | |
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| WSBPEL | |
Web Services Business Process Execution Language | |
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| WSC | |
Windows Script Component | |||||
| WSCI | |
Web Services Choreography Interface |
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| WSCM | Web Services Component Model | ||||||
| WSDL | |
Web Services Description Language |
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| WSDM | |
Web Services Distributed Management | |||||
| WSE | |
Web Services Enhancements |
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| WSED | |
WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer | |||||
| WSEE | Web Services Execution Engine | ||||||
| WSEL | Web Services Endpoint Language | ||||||
| WSF | WorkStation Function | ||||||
| WSFL | |
Web Services Flow Language | |||||
| WSGI | (Python) Web Server Gateway Interface |
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| WSH | |
Windows Script Host | |||||
| WSIF | |
Web Services Invocation Framework | |||||
| WSJ | |
Wall Street Journal |
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| WSOD | |
WorkSpace On-Demand | |||||
| WSP | White Space | ||||||
| WSP | Wireless Session Protocol | ||||||
| WSRP | |
Web Services for Remote Portlets | |
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| WSS | |
Web Services Security |
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| WSSD | |
WebSphere Studio Site Developer | |||||
| WSUS | |
Windows Server Update Services | |||||
| WT | Without Thinking | |
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| WTA | |
World Teleport Association | |
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| WTB | |
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau | |||||
| WTG | Way To Go | ||||||
| WTH | What The Heck / What The Hell | ||||||
| WTHDTM | What The Hell Does That Mean | ||||||
| WTI | |
Western Telematic Incorporated | |
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| WTL | |
Windows Template Library | |||||
| WTLS | Wireless Transport Layer Security | ||||||
| WTO | |
World Trade Organization | |
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| WTP | Wireless Transport Protocol | ||||||
| WTPF | |
World Telecommunication Policy Forum | |
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| WTTM | Without Thinking Too Much | ||||||
| WUI | |
Western Union International | |||||
| WVIEW | |
World View (Magazine) | |||||
| WW | World - Wide | ||||||
| WWMCCS | |
WorldWide Military Command and Control System | |||||
| WWN | World Wide Name | ||||||
| WWPN | World Wide Port Number | ||||||
| WWW | World Wide Web |
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| WWWW | World Wide Web Worm | ||||||
| WYCIWYG | What You Cache Is What You Get | |
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| WYMM | Will You Marry Me |
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| WYPIWYG | Where You Point Is Where You Go | ||||||
| WYSIAYG | What You See Is All You Get | |
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| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | |
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| WYWO | While You Were Out |
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| WZC | Wireless Zero Configuration | ||||||
