IBM 3580-L23 Setup Guide - Page 139

watt., wet bulb temperature., World Wide Web., write., write protected., write-protect switch.

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W W. Watts. watt. A metric unit of measure of power; the power required to keep a current of one ampere flowing under a potential drop of one volt; about 1/736 of one horsepower. Web. See World Wide Web. wet bulb temperature. The temperature at which pure water must be evaporated adiabatically at constant pressure into a given sample of air in order to saturate the air under steady-state conditions. Read from a wet-bulb thermometer. World Wide Web. A network of servers that contain programs and files. Many of the files contain hypertext links to other documents available through the network. write. To make a permanent or transient recording of data in a storage device or on a data medium. write protected. A tape cartridge is write protected if some logical or physical mechanism causes the device that is processing the tape to prevent the program from writing on the tape. write-protect switch. Located on the LTO Ultrium Tape Cartridge, a switch that prevents accidental erasure of data. Pictures of a locked and unlocked padlock appear on the switch. When you slide the switch to the picture of the locked padlock, data cannot be written to the tape. When you slide the switch to the picture of the unlocked padlock, data can be written to the tape. Glossary 123

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W
W.
Watts.
watt.
A metric unit of measure of power; the power
required to keep a current of one ampere flowing
under a potential drop of one volt; about 1/736 of one
horsepower.
Web.
See
World Wide Web
.
wet bulb temperature.
The temperature at which pure
water must be evaporated adiabatically at constant
pressure into a given sample of air in order to saturate
the air under steady-state conditions. Read from a
wet-bulb thermometer.
World Wide Web.
A network of servers that contain
programs and files. Many of the files contain hypertext
links to other documents available through the
network.
write.
To make a permanent or transient recording of
data in a storage device or on a data medium.
write protected.
A tape cartridge is write protected if
some logical or physical mechanism causes the device
that is processing the tape to prevent the program from
writing on the tape.
write-protect switch.
Located on the LTO Ultrium
Tape Cartridge, a switch that prevents accidental
erasure of data. Pictures of a locked and unlocked
padlock appear on the switch. When you slide the
switch to the picture of the locked padlock, data cannot
be written to the tape. When you slide the switch to the
picture of the unlocked padlock, data can be written to
the tape.
Glossary
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