wood burner
nounRail equipment
A steam locomotive fuelled with wood instead of coal or oil, mainly used in areas with a plentiful supply of wood.
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wood leader
A person employed to carry wooden props to parts of the mine where they are needed.
woodblock
A wooden block used as a printing form.
woof
The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
word
A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
work envelope
nounRobotics
The area which a robot, or any part of one, can reach and can operate within.
work hardening
nounMetallurgy
The repeated plastic deformation of a material, causing a permanent distortion of its crystal structure, and an increase in its strength and hardness; the resultant hardness increase itself. (It can be either desirable or undesirable depending on the aims and circumstances in a metalworking task.)
work out
To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
work train
nounRail equipment
A train run for the purpose of maintenance and repair of railway track.
work-harden
verbMetallurgy
To harden (a material) by work hardening.
work-stone
nounMetallurgy
A sloping cast iron plate positioned in front of a hearth.
working mass
The total mass of the burnt fuel etc. ejected from a rocket to provide thrust.
workpiece
nounMachining
A partially finished object (often composed of a raw material) which is subjected to various operations, worked on with tools, etc.
workspace
The set of points that can be reached by the end-effector of a robotic manipulator.
workstone
nounConstruction
A stone with which a person works.
worm
To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
WORM drive
A write once, read many drive; data storage technology that allows information to be written to a disc a single time and prevents the drive from erasing the data.
worming
nounManufacturing
The tendency of certain yarn or thread to bunch up after being woven.
worsted
Yarn made from long strands of wool.
wort
nounManufacturing
Also worts: a liquid extracted from mash (ground malt or some other grain soaked in hot water), which is then fermented to make beer, or fermented and distilled to make a malt liquor such as whisky.
WP
nameRail equipment
Initialism of Western Pacific.
WPI
nounManufacturing
Initialism of wrap per inch.
WPT
Abbreviation of wireless-power transfer.
wrap
nounAutomotive
A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
wrecking ball
nounConstruction
A heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is swung to demolish large structures.
wrest
A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
wriggler
nounManufacturing
Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
wring
Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
write once
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.
write once, read many
phraseIndustrial electronics
A data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified.
wrong
adjectiveManufacturing
Designed to be worn or placed inward.
wrong side
The side of a fabric, often with a less visible color or pattern, that is not intended to be seen on a finished project.
wrong-way concurrency
A road concurrency in which at least two numbered highway routes are signed in opposite, conflicting directions on the same stretch of physical roadway.
WS
nounManufacturing
Initialism of wrong side.
WSI
Initialism of wafer-scale integration.
WSPR
Abbreviation of weak signal propagation reporter
WSS
Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.
WTAI
Initialism of Wireless Telephony Applications Interface: a protocol used in conjunction with the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) to allow a telephone number to be linked to a web page.
wye
verbRail equipment
To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
wyib
prep phraseTextile production
Initialism of with yarn in back.
wyif
prep phraseTextile production
Abbreviation of with yarn in front.
wythe
nounConstruction
A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.