WAIS

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WAIS

  1. Initialism of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
    • 2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Total loss of the WAIS would cause 5 metres of sea level rise.
  2. Initialism of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
  3. (computing) Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.
    • 1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times[2]:
      Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

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