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Technical Writing Glossary - W
 

web

see: WWW

wide-bed

adj. as in "wide-bed plotter"

wildcard

one word

word processing

two words  The creation of text documents. Except for labels and envelopes, it has replaced the electric typewriter in most offices, because of the ease in which documents can be edited, searched and reprinted.

World Wide Web

 no hyphen; Web or WWW; no hyphen; a world-wide collection of hypertext-based multimedia documents; a subset of the Internet

WWW

World Wide Web -- Frequently used (incorrectly) when referring to "The Internet", WWW has two major meanings -  First, loosely used: the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the universe of hypertext servers (HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together.     See also: Browser , FTP , Gopher , HTTP , Internet , Telnet , URL , WAIS