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Website
A website is a collection of interlinked web pages at the same network location, all reachable from a host page. More than 1.4 billion sites were counted in 2026.
Website content writer
A website content writer researches, writes, and edits web copy such as blogs, pages, and guides, applying SEO and audience strategy. Distinct from copywriters and content strategists; US writers-and-authors employment is projected flat 2025-35 with AI dampening demand.
Website wireframe
A website wireframe, also called a page schematic, is a simple visual blueprint of a web page's structure, content placement, and interactive elements, used in early design before visual styling is added.
WebSocket
WebSocket, also known as the WebSocket API, is a communication protocol giving browsers two-way communication with a server over one TCP connection, standardized by the IETF in 2011.
WebSockets
WebSockets are a protocol and web API for two-way, full-duplex communication between a browser and a server, layered over TCP and defined by RFC 6455.
Webster (TV series)
Webster (1983-1989) is an ABC and syndication American sitcom starring Emmanuel Lewis as an orphaned boy raised by Alex Karras and Susan Clark. Created by Stu Silver, 150 episodes, widely compared to Diff'rent Strokes; known for issue episodes and a 21% season-one Tomatometer.
Webster Barnaby
Webster Barnaby is an American Republican politician in the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 29 since 2026 after representing District 27 in Southwest Volusia.
Webster Capital
Webster Capital, known in recent filings as Webster Equity Partners, is a Waltham, Massachusetts private equity firm founded in 2003 that invests in healthcare services companies.
Webster Equity Partners
Webster Equity Partners is a Waltham, Massachusetts private equity firm founded in 2003 that focuses on high-impact growth strategies in healthcare; it closed its sixth fund in 2026.
Webster Hubbell
Webster Lee (Webb) Hubbell, born 1948, Arkansas lawyer, Rose Law Firm managing partner, Little Rock mayor, and Clinton associate attorney general; convicted 1994 of billing fraud, later subject of United States v. Hubbell (2000).
Webster Johnson
Webster Johnson (born 1946), American sprinter from Bossier Parish, Louisiana; with brother Robert Lee Johnson of Southern University ran on world-record 4x100 (39.6, 1966) and near-record mile relays; ranked US #10 at 400m in 1965.
Webster K. Cavenee
Webster K. Cavenee is an American cancer geneticist whose retinoblastoma studies gave the first genetic evidence for tumor suppressor genes in humans; he later found EGFRvIII in aggressive brain tumors.
Webster University
Webster University, founded 1915 by the Sisters of Loretto in Webster Groves, St. Louis, is an independent nonprofit university with 13,000+ students, HLC accreditation since 1925, international campuses, and a recent financial turnaround.
Webster-Chicago wire recorder
The Webster-Chicago wire recorder was a family of magnetic wire recorders made in Chicago from 1945 into the 1950s, whose Model 80 became the best-selling wire recorder.
Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary, from Noah Webster's 1828 An American Dictionary of the English Language (70,000 words, 12,000 new), continued by Merriam-Webster; the name Webster is generic and not a trademark.
WebStorm
WebStorm is a commercial integrated development environment for JavaScript and TypeScript, built by JetBrains on the IntelliJ platform and first released in May 2010; it has been free for non-commercial use since October 2024.
WebText
WebText is a web-text corpus created by OpenAI as the training dataset for GPT-2, built from outbound Reddit links with at least 3 karma, totaling 40 GB of text.
Webtoon
Webtoon (웹툰): a South Korean-origin digital comic format read as one full-color vertical scroll on phones, distinct from manhwa (origin) and manga (Japan); coined by Cheollian in 2000, industrialized by Naver Webtoon from 2005, now a multi-billion-dollar industry.
WebTorrent
WebTorrent is a streaming torrent client written in JavaScript that runs in web browsers using WebRTC and in Node.js, described as the first browser BitTorrent client using open web standards.
Webuild
Webuild S.p.A. is an Italian construction group listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, formed as Salini Impregilo and renamed Webuild in 2020, known for dams, metros, railways, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Webvan
Webvan (Webvan.com) was an American online grocery retailer founded by Louis Borders, based in Foster City, California, and one of the largest failures of the dot-com era.
WebVid-10M
WebVid-10M is a dataset of about 10.7 million captioned short stock-footage videos, released by University of Oxford researchers in 2021 for text-to-video training and withdrawn in February 2024 after a Shutterstock cease-and-desist.
WebVoyager
WebVoyager is a large multimodal model powered web agent that completes user instructions on real websites, introduced in January 2024 by Zhejiang University and Tencent AI Lab researchers.
WebVR
WebVR was a JavaScript API giving web pages access to virtual reality hardware such as head-mounted displays; it was never standardized and was replaced by WebXR in 2019.
WebXR Device API
The WebXR Device API is a W3C web programming interface that lets web pages find and drive VR and AR hardware, replacing the older WebVR API.
WEC Energy Group
WEC Energy Group is a Wisconsin utility holding company formed by the 2015 merger of Wisconsin Energy and Integrys, serving 4.7 million customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota.
WeChat (微信)
WeChat (微信), Tencent's messaging app launched January 2011 under Zhang Xiaolong, is a super-app with mini programs, WeChat Pay, and Official Accounts; a separate sister service from mainland-China Weixin, with over 1.4 billion combined users and transport encryption rather than end-to-end encryption.
WeChat Channels
WeChat Channels, also called Video Accounts (视频号), is the short-video and live-streaming service built into Tencent's WeChat messaging app, launched in January 2020 and, by 2025, China's second-largest short-video service.
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) is a brief standardized test estimating intellectual functioning in ages 6 to 90, in about 15 to 30 minutes.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is a clinical IQ test for adolescents and adults, in its fifth edition since 2024 and widely used in clinical and educational settings.