Appendix Acronyms W

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Acronyms - W

W West

W Width

WA Washington

WA Western Australia

WAC Womens Air Corps

WAIS Wide Area Information Server

WARC World Administrative Conference

WATS Wide Area Telephone Service

WB Water Ballast

WB WayBill

WBC White Blood Cells

WC Water Closet

WC Without Charge

WCTU Women's Christian Temperance Union

WD White Dwarf [Space]

WECo Western Electric Company [AT&T] (manufacturing arm of AT&T)

WFPC Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST) [Space]

WFPCII Replacement for WFPC [Space]

WG Working Group

WH WarHammer

WHBL World Home Bible League

WHCA White House Communications Agency [US Government]

WHO World Health Organization

WI Wisconsin

WIMP Windows/Icons/Mouse Programming(?)

WIPP (nuclear) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [DOE]

WIS WWMCCS Information System

WITS Washington Interagency Telecommunications System

WIYN Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope [Space]

WMSCR Weather Message Switching Center Replacement

WOM Write Only Memory

WOP WithOut Papers [Immigration]

WOPR War Operations Planned Response (from "Wargames" movie)

WORM Write Once, Read Many times

WOW Worlds of Wonder

WP Word Processing

WP Working Paper

WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

WSI Wafer Scale Integration

WSMR White Sands Missile Range [Space]

WSW West-SouthWest

WTR Western Test Range [Space]

WU Washington University

WU Western Union

WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package) [Space]

WV West Virginia

WW World War

WWI World War I

WWII World War II

WWMCCS World-Wide Military Command and Control System

WY Wyoming

WYSIWIS What You See Is What I See

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get