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Definition(s) of “W”
W 1 |ˈdəbəlˌyoō| (also w)
noun ( pl. Ws or W's )
1 the twenty-third letter of the alphabet.
• denoting the next after V in a set of items, categories, etc.
2 a shape like that of a letter W : [in combination ] the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia.
W 2
abbreviation
• Wales.
• Baseball walk (sense 3 of the noun).
• warden.
• (in tables of sports results) games won.
• watt(s).
• Wednesday.
• week.
• ( w) weight.
• Welsh.
• West or Western : 104° W | W Europe.
• (in personal ads) White.
• Cricket (on scorecards) wicket(s).
• width : 23 in. H x 20.5 in. W x 16 in. D.
• (in personal ads) widowed.
• (in genealogies) wife.
• (in shortwave transmissions) with.
• women's (clothes size).
• Physics work.
symbol
• the chemical element tungsten. [ORIGIN: from modern Latin wolframium.]
watt |wät| (abbr.: W)
noun
the SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second, corresponding to the power in an electric circuit in which the potential difference is one volt and the current one ampere.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: named after J. Watt .
tungsten |ˈtə ng stən|
noun
the chemical element of atomic number 74, a hard steel-gray metal of the transition series. It has a very high melting point (3410°C) and is used to make electric light filaments. (Symbol: W)
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Swedish, from tung ‘heavy’ + sten ‘stone.’