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WATT HOUR

Metric energy unit equal to 3.41Btu, 3600 joules.

WAVE

Disturbance passing through medium.

WAVE LENGTH

Distance between successive and similar wave or trough points

WAYBILL

Shipping document travelling with shipment showing consigner and consignee, origin, destination, goods involved, weight and freight.

WEAK DOLLAR

Relating to another countries currency needing more of yours to buy theirs.

WEAK MARKET

Market where buyers are greatly outnumbered by the sellers.

WEAROUT

Process of attrition causing an increased rate of failure with its age, use and consumption.

WEATHER

Hour by hour and day by day variations in conditions of atmosphere.

WEB DESIGN

Describes all of the tasks needed to create an HTML driven web page to be displayed on the WWW.

WEB HOSTING

Way of maintaining and hosting client’s web sites.

WEBOGRAPHICS

Study of features, user profiles of visitors to sites. See demographics, psychographics.

WEIGHT OR MEASUREMENT (W/M)

Way of quoting rates for freight. (1) Sea freight; per metric ton or cubic meter whichever is greater,(2) Air; per kilogram or 1 cubic foot whichever is greater.

WEIGHT THRESHOLD

Cargo weight where a standard rate of freight begins to decline. Also known as weight break.

WEIGHT TON

3 types of tons are used in shipping. 1. Long ton-2240 ponds, 2. Short ton-2000 pounds and 3. Metric ton-2204.68 pounds or 1000 kg.

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