W Common Medical Abbreviation

W has various meanings in the Common Medical category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of W in Common Medical.

White

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With

W/ is a common shorthand version of "with," which is typically used online, in emails, and text messages. The "/" simply replaces the "ith." You will see the abbreviation used by people of all ages in a variety of contexts outside of the digital world. People might use it in birthday cards, grocery lists, notes, and letters.

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Water

To take in water for drinking or boiler purposes. To pump fresh water into a ship. Dihydrogen oxide, molecular formula H2O.

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Word

A fixed-length group of bits representing the largest data element handled as a unit by a computer. Word length is determined by the capacity of the CPU registers.

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Way

Vessel's inertia of motion through the water

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Tryptophan

Any enthusiastic admirer of the Slovenian guitarist Wenceslas Trypto. Actually, it is an amino acid with the useful property of aborbing ultraviolet light, helping to make proteins visible to detectors in chromatographs. Some vitamin suppliers call it "the natural alternative to Prozac". Tryptophan's biochemical symbol is T and it looks like this:

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