WAIS

See also: wais

English

Proper noun

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.

Anagrams

• Iswa, WIAs, WISA, WSIA, swai