W W3C World Wide Web Consortium. Standards body responsible for HTML and XML. WAN Wide-area network. Data communications network that serves users across a broad geographic area and often uses transmission devices provided by common carriers. Examples include Frame Relay, SMDS, and X.25.
wav File extension for an audio file. See also au. WIC Wide-area-network interface card. WWW World Wide Web. Large network of Internet servers providing hypertext and other services to terminals running client applications, such as a browser.
