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a heavy grey-white metallic element the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet
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W lc=w W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English languageEnglish is ''double-u''. W was invented in the 7th century by Anglo-Saxon writers, and was originally a doubled V (which also represented U—hence the name "Double U"). The sound w, the voiced labial-velar approximant, was previously represented by the RuneRunic letter Wynn (Ƿ).The Latin w sound developed into Romance languagesRomance v; therefore V no longer adequately represented Germanic languagesGermanic w. In German languageGerman—as in Romance—the phoneme w was lost; this is why German W represents v rather than w. In Dutch languageDutch, W is a labiodental approximant (with the exception of words with EEUW, which have IPA/eːw/ ), or other diphthongs containing -UW.There are only four major European languages that use W in native words: English languageEnglish, German languageGerman, Polish languagePolish, and Dutch languageDutch. In the Swedish alphabetSwedish and Finnish alphabets, "W" is seen as a variant of "V" and not a separate letter. It is however recognized and maintained in names, like "William". In the alphabets of modern Romance languages, it is not used either, except in foreign names and words recently borrowed (''le week-end'', ''il watt'', ''el kiwi''). When a spelling for the w sound in a native word is needed, a spelling from the native alphabet, such as U or OU, can be used instead. In Hebrew use the same letter, Waw (letter)waw or vav is used to spell both w and v, which can make problems in some cases. For example many Israelis say "Hollyvud" rather than "Hollywood" or "Darvin" rather than "Darwin". notes.co.il - See more (in Hebrew). The equivalent representation of the w sound in the Cyrillic alphabet is U shortЎ, a letter unique to the Belarusian language."Double U" is the only English languageEnglish letter name with more than one syllable. This gives the nine-syllable initialism World Wide Webwww the irony of being an abbreviation that takes more syllables to say than the unabbreviated form. A few speakers thus shorten the name "double u" into "dub" only, although this is rather rare and nonstandard; for example, University of Washington is known colloquially as "U Dub". In the Texas dialect of American English, the name is often condensed to two syllables rather than three, resulting in George W. Bush's nickname of "Dubya".
Alternative representations - Whiskey represents the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet.In Morse codeinternational Morse code the letter W is DitDahDah: !ยท - -< /tt>In? Braille the letter W is represented as !⠺.XXX.X
Computing - In Unicode the majusculecapital W is codepoint U+0057 and the minusculelowercase w is U+0077.The ASCII code for capital W is 87 and for lowercase w is 119; or in Binary numeral systembinary 01010111 and 01110111, correspondingly.The EBCDIC code for capital W is 230 and for lowercase w is 166.The numeric character references in HTML and XML are !"W"? and !"w< /tt>"? for upper and lower case respectively.
Meanings for W - In biochemistry, W is the symbol for tryptophan. In calendars, W is often an abbreviation for Wednesday. In chemistry, W is the symbol for tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram. In computing, *w is a command on Unix systems that displays information on users who are currently logged in.*W is the name of a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms; see W Window System. In film, W is the name of a 1973 American film; see W (film) In genetics W denotes the WZ sex-determination systemW chromosome.* WZ denotes female in the WZ sex-determination system. In population genetics, ''w'' is the symbol for fitness (biology)fitness In the International Phonetic Alphabet, w represents a labial-velar approximant. In Italy, W (which does not appear in the Italian_alphabetItalian alphabet) stands for ''Vive, VivaViva'' ("long live"). In Japan, W is a female J-Pop duo of Hello! Project; see W (Double You). It is also commonly used mostly in advertising to represent the word 'double', as in the recent McDonald's Japan campain featuring the WBLT, read 'Double BLT'. In journalism, the Five Ws are ''who'', ''what'', ''when'', ''where'' and ''why''. In the SI system, *W is the symbol for the watt, the SI derived unit for power (physics)power. In physics, * W is often the variable for energy or mechanical workwork, measured in joules.* W is a kind of a subatomic particle, the W and Z bosonsW boson. In politics, W is a nickname of President of the United_StatesAmerican President George W. Bush, sometimes spelled out as "Dubya" (the President's name is sometimes written "George Double-U Bush"). "W" is used by Bush himself, on campaign signs, and by many of his supporters. Dubya is generally used by opponents of Bush, or by those making fun of him. As the first letter of a postal code,* In the United Kingdom, W stands for West London. In weather forecasting, geography, and weather vanes, W stands for west, one of the four cardinal directions. In publishing, W is the name of an American fashion magazine; see W (magazine). W Hotels is a international chain of boutique hotels in urban centers. In radiocommunication, W is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to the United States. W is generally used as the first letter of radio call signcallsigns allocated to broadcastingbroadcast television stationtelevision or radio stations east of the Mississippi river. In television,* W is the name of a CanadaCanadian specialty service dedicated to womanwomen's issues, formerly called WTN; see W Network.* On the TV show "Good Eats," W is an ill-tempered kitchen supply salesperson.* In the Champaign-Decatur-Springfield TV Market (DMA 82)(see Media market), a W is inserted over the picture in an upper corner when National Weather ServiceThe National Weather Service Weather Service issues a weather watch or warning, etc (see Severe weather terminology#Watches.2C Warnings and Advisories as defined by the NWS. In computing and video games,* W is the symbol for Wario, a Nintendo character.* In Nethack, "w" is the command to wield (or unweild) a weapon, and "W" is the command to wear armor. w or w/ is an abbreviation for the word "with".
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