| 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 |
|
| WAICO | World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization |
|
| 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 | |
| WAVES | Wealth Accounting for Valuation of Ecosystem Services |
|
| 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 | |
| WFSCC | Waste Fibre Self-Compacting Concrete | |
| 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 |
|
| WISDEM |
Wind-plant Integrated System Design and Engineering Model | |
| 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 |
| WRC | Weather Related Cancellations |
Commercial flights |
| 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 | |
| WWC | What Works Centre | Local employment support |
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund | |
| WWTP | Waste Water Treatment Plants | |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |