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- WAN
- Wide Area Network
- a network of computers that are far apart, as in different
cities or countries
- warm boot
- method of restarting the computer which
doesn't require the hard disk to stop spinning first
- window
- a rectangular area of the screen which
displays a program's user interface, a document, or a system
message
- wizard
- an automatic set of steps that lead you
through a process, for example to create a letter
- word wrap
- automatically wrapping the text to the
next line so it all fits within the screen's width
- word processing
- a computer program used to create
documents which are text-based, like letters, memos, and term
papers. It is the most used computer application.
- word
- amount of data the CPU can process at one
time. Measured in bits.
- working storage
- temporary storage of the intermediate
results of work in progress
- workstation
- personal computer networked to other
computers. Sometimes more capable than a desktop model.
- WORM
- Write Once Read Many. Most common type of optical disk
- worm
- An unwanted computer program that duplicates itself across a
computer network. It uses up the network's storage space and
resources and can interfere with the ability of the network to
function at all.
- write protect
- method that keeps data from being
over-written. May be a physical obstacle or a file attribute
choice that prevents overwriting.
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get
(pronounced "wiz-e-wig")- how a page displays on screen is the
same as how it prints
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