Definition of Wais

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WAIS (Wide Area Information Server)
Internet system that enables concentrated searching for information from databases scattered among many servers

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WAIS Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Computer Abbreviations v1.5
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server

9300+ Computer Acronyms
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server (or Service)

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WAIS
Wide Area Information Server

A Glossary of Internet & PC Terminology
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server - an information service used to search through vast quantities of information - normally on the Internet. The user provides keywords & information is returned which matches the users query

WebGuest Web Glossary
WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
Distributed information retrieval system that allows you to search huge amounts of information using keywords.

Jensen's Technology Glossary
WAIS
The abbreviation for Wide Area Information Service, WAIS is a Net-wide system for looking up specific information in Internet databases.

Internet Glossary
WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like that last batch and thus refine the search process.

Website design & Internet terms
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server. A means of searching the internet.

Internetworking Terms
WAIS
See: Wide Area Information Servers

Wide Area Information Servers
A distributed information service which offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also: archie, Gopher, Prospero.

INTERNET TERMS&ACRONYMSV1.0
WAIS
WAIS (Wide Area Information Server )
An indexing system for documents that indexes the full text of the documents,and scores searches on the basis of the relevance of its vocabulary to the search terms.

The Internet Dictionary
WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers). An Internet multimedia search-and-retrieve tool offering more than 500 databases. WAIS (pronounced "ways") lets users look through the full text of the document.

Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms
WAIS
Stands for "Wide Area Information Server." It is a program that can index enormous amounts of information and can make the index searchable across networks (including the Internet). WAIS will also rank the information found by searches by releavance. If that isn't enough, the search can be narrowed down even more by subsequent searches on the results found by the previous search.


WAIS Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Hill Associates Acronym List
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server (IETF)

Oceanographic, Meteorologal & Climatologal abbreviations and acronyms
WAIS
West Antarctic Ice Sheet initiative [> PAGES]

Telecommunication Standard Terms
WAIS
Acronym for Wide Area Information Servers. A distributed text searching system that uses the protocol standard ANS Z39.50 to search index databases on remote computers. Note 1: WAIS libraries are most often found on the Internet. Note 2: WAIS allows users to discover and access information resources on the network without regard to their physical location. Note 3: WAIS software uses the client-server model.

Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)
See WAIS.

Technical English by wpv
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server. WAIS is best at searches for various sources of academic information that has been indexed based on content. Its indexes consist of every word in a document and each word carries the same weight in a search.

RF Electronics
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server. WAIS servers search for information spread around the Internet. Users tell the WAIS servers which databases they wish to search, then specify one or more keywords for the search. WAIS returns a list of articles matching the search criteria.


WAIS Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

NCTS Glossary v.1.0
WAIS
Wide Area Information Servers


WAIS Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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WAIS Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries