| W |
Explanation |
Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| w/o |
water/oil |
|
| w/o |
weight percentage |
|
| WAAM |
Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing |
|
| WACC | Weighted Average Cost of Capital | |
| WAG | Wembury (Marine Conservation Area) Advisory Group |
|
| WALiD | Wind Blade using cost-effective Advanced Lightweight Design |
|
| WaMITAB |
Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board |
|
| WANFR |
World Association of Natural Fibers Research |
|
| WAPS |
Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems |
|
| WASP |
Wind-Assisted Ship Propulsion |
|
| WASPI |
Women Against State Pension Inequality |
|
| WAVECOM |
Microwave assisted curing for carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites |
|
| WAXS |
Wide Angle X-ray scattering |
|
| WBCSD |
World Business Council for Sustainable Development | |
| WBF |
Wrongful Benefits Framework |
|
| WBM |
Wave Based Method |
|
| WBV |
Whole Body Vibration |
|
| WCC |
Woodland Carbon Code | |
| WCED |
World Commission on Economic Development |
|
| WCF |
Waveform Correlation Factor |
|
| WCM |
Wet Compression Moulding |
|
| WCSS |
Within-Cluster Sum of Squares |
|
| WD |
Water Depletion |
|
| WD |
Water Dried |
|
| WD |
Water Droplet |
|
| WD |
ISO Working Draft (within a Working Group) |
|
| WDF |
Weighted Distribution Function | |
| WDF |
Workforce Development Forum | |
| WDM |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
Signal processing for optical fibre sensors |
| WDP |
Water Depletion Potential |
|
| WDS |
Wavelength-Dispersive Spectroscopy |
|
| WEEE |
Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment |
Directive
2002/96/EC |
| WEI |
Workplace Equality Index |
Stonewall |
| WEIRD |
Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic | |
| WEL |
Workplace Exposure Limits |
.. both long-term and short-term exposure limits |
| WEOR | Waste Engine Oil Residue | |
| WETO |
Wind Energy Technologies Office |
|
| WF | Wide Flange (in the context of GFRP pultrusions) |
|
| WF | Wood Flour | |
| WF | Woven Fabric | |
| WFC | Wood Fibre Composites | |
| WFPC | Wood Fibre Polymer Composites | |
| WFT | Wet Film Thickness | |
| WFTP | Wing Fatigue Test Program | Hercules C130J |
| WH | Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) fibre | |
| WHEC | Workplace Health Expert Committee | |
| WHO | World Health Organization | |
| WHPSC | World Human Powered Speed Challenge | |
| WI | Working Group | |
| WIA | Willmott’s Index of Agreement | |
| WIDERA |
Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area | |
| WiFOS | Wireless Fibre Optical Sensor | |
| WIG | Wing In Ground-effect |
a.k.a. AGEC (Germany), ekranoplan (Russia) or wingship (USA) |
| WINDT | Women in Non-Destructive Testing | |
| WINGNet |
Sustainable Use of Materials for Aerospace Applications |
|
| wingship |
American term for WIG boat |
|
| WINFI | Women Innovators in Foundation Industries | UKRI TFI |
| WIPS |
Wing Ice Protection System |
|
| WISPER |
WInd SPEctrum Reference |
|
| WIWK |
Warp (or weft) Insertion Weft (or warp) Knit fabrics |
|
| WISE |
Women Into Science, Engineering and Construction |
|
| WISE(S) |
Wing In Surface Effect (Ship) |
|
| WISED |
Women in Science, Engineering and Design |
UK All-Party Parliamentary Group |
| WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
|
| WLC |
Well-Laid Composite |
|
| WLCA | Whole Life Carbon Assessment |
RICS software validation programme |
| WLF |
Williams-Landel-Ferry equation |
dependence of viscosity on temperature |
| WM |
Waste Management |
|
| WMA |
Wildlife Management Areas |
|
| WMAPE | Weighted Mean Absolute Percentage Error | |
| WMG |
Warwick Manufacturing Group |
University of Warwick |
| WMNC |
Wood Montmorillonite Nano Composites |
|
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
|
| WOMBAT |
Waste Of Money, Breath And Time |
|
| WoT |
Wing of Tomorrow |
|
| WP |
Whatman Paper |
|
| WPC |
Wood Plastic/Polymer Composite |
|
| WPD |
World Population Day |
|
| WPE |
Weight Per Epoxy Equivalent |
|
| WPM |
Weighted Product Method |
|
| WPP |
Wet Peel Ply |
|
| WPTO |
Water Power Technologies Office |
|
| WPU |
Water-bourne PolyUrethane |
|
| WR |
Woven Roving |
|
| WRA |
Wool Research Organisation |
Mumbai - India |
| WRAP |
Waste and Resources Action Programme |
|
| WrapToR |
Wrapped Tow Reinforced truss concept |
University of Bristiol ACCIS CDT |
| WRATE |
Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment |
Environment Agency |
| WRDA | Water Resources Development Act | |
| WRI | World Resources Institute |
|
| WRONZ |
Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ) |
Now Canesis |
| WRRF | Water Resource Recovery Facility | |
| WS | Wheat Straw | |
| WSFEM | Wavelet-based Spectral Finite Element Method | |
| WSM | Weighted Scoring Method | |
| WSM | Weighted Sum Method | |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Networks | |
| WSPS | Water Soluble Poly Saccharides | |
| WSPS |
Wire Strike Protection System |
helicopter safety mechanism |
| WSS |
Wire-Shaped Supercapacitor |
|
| WT |
Wind Turbines | |
| WTA |
Wavelet Texture Analysis |
|
| WTA |
Willingness To Accept compensation |
|
| WTB |
Wind Turbine Blades | |
| WTF |
Why The Fuss? | |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
Geneva - Switzerland |
| WTP |
Willingness To Pay |
|
| WTS |
Willingness To Swap |
|
| WTT |
Well-to-Tank |
average GHG emissions from the production, processing and delivery of a fuel or energy vector |
| WTTF |
Waste Tire Textile Fibers |
|
| WUCS |
Wet Used Chopped Strand |
|
| WURM |
Women and Under-Represented Minorities |
|
| WVTR |
Water Vapour Transmission Rate |
|
| WWF |
World Wildlife Fund |
|
| WWTP |
Waste Water Treatment Plants |
|
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
|