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Words of Edification
Words of Edification (Qara sözder, the Book of Edification) is a cycle of 45 moral and philosophical prose pieces by the Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly, written 1890–1898.
Words of Radiance
Words of Radiance is the 2014 second book of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, published by Tor, with Shallan-focused flashbacks, originally titled The Book of Endless Pages, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Words on Bathroom Walls
Words on Bathroom Walls: 2020 American romantic drama directed by Thor Freudenthal, from Julia Walton's 2017 YA novel; Charlie Plummer plays Adam, a teen with schizophrenia, opposite Taylor Russell's Maya.
Words per minute
Words per minute, or WPM, measures how many words are typed, spoken, read, or transmitted in Morse code each minute, with each field defining a standardized word.
Words twice
"Words twice" is a standard radiotelephony phrase in aviation, used either as a request to repeat each word twice or as notice that a message will be sent twice.
Words With Friends
Words With Friends is a mobile word game created by Newtoy in 2009, in which players take turns building crossword-style words, and acquired by Zynga in 2010.
Wordsmith AI
Wordsmith AI, also known as Wordsmith AI Ltd., is a legal technology startup founded in Edinburgh in 2023 that builds AI agents for corporate legal departments.
WordStar
WordStar is a word processing program first published by MicroPro International in 1978 for the CP/M operating system and the best-selling word processor of the early 1980s.
Worf
Worf, son of Mogh, is the Klingon Starfleet officer in Star Trek played by Michael Dorn; first Klingon in Starfleet, most-appearing Trek character across TNG, DS9, four films, and Picard.
Worin cheongang jigok
Worin cheongang jigok (월인천강지곡) is a Korean Buddhist song cycle of 583 verses composed by King Sejong the Great of Joseon in 1447, praising the life of the Buddha in Hangul.
Work
Work, in economics and official statistics, is any activity producing goods or services for others or one's own use, paid or unpaid, formal or informal.
Work (physics)
Work, also called mechanical work, is energy transferred to or from an object by a force acting through a displacement, defined as the dot product of force and displacement and measured in joules.
Work (Rihanna song)
Rihanna's "Work" (2016), a dancehall single featuring Drake from Anti, built on the 1998 Sail Away riddim; nine weeks at Hot 100 No. 1, two Grammy nominations.
Work (thermodynamics)
Work in thermodynamics, or thermodynamic work, is energy transferred across a system boundary by a macroscopic force through a displacement, a path function alongside heat.
Work breakdown structure
A work breakdown structure is a hierarchical, deliverable-oriented decomposition of all project work, following the 100% rule and accompanied by a WBS dictionary, used in cost estimating and scheduling.
Work Capacity Evaluation
Work capacity evaluation, also called functional capacity evaluation (FCE), assesses physiological and functional capacities against job demands via graded work tests; used for return-to-work, disability, and medico-legal decisions.
Work done by elastic forces
Work done by elastic forces is the mechanical work of stretching or compressing an elastic object such as a spring, stored as recoverable elastic potential energy U = ½kx².
Work ethic
Work ethic: personal character attributes shaping attitudes toward work; modern term from Max Weber's Protestant work ethic (1904/5). Covers PWE beliefs, MWEP's seven dimensions, Buchanan's specialization hypothesis, empirical tests of Weber, and critiques by Marx, LaFargue, Russell, Keynes, and Arendt.
Work function
The work function, written Φ, is the minimum energy needed to remove an electron from a metal or semiconductor surface, typically 2 to 6 eV in metals.
Work hardening
Work hardening, also called strain hardening or cold working, is the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation; dislocations multiply and impede each other, and annealing reverses it.
Work in compressed air
Work in compressed air, or hyperbaric work, is construction labor in chambers pressurized above atmospheric to hold back groundwater in soft-ground tunnels and caissons, first patented in 1830.
Work It (film)
Work It (2020) is an American teen dance comedy directed by Laura Terruso, written by Alison Peck, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Jordan Fisher; produced by Alicia Keys, it debuted number one on Netflix August 7, 2020.
Work It (Missy Elliott song)
"Work It" is a 2002 hip hop single by Missy Elliott from Under Construction, produced by Timbaland, famous for its reversed chorus vocals, peaking at number 2 in the US and 6 in the UK, and winning the 2004 Grammy for Best Female Rap Solo Performance.
Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들)
Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들), also Drinker City Women, is a 2021 South Korean TVING original drama adapted from Mikkang's webcomic, starring Lee Sun-Bin, Han Sun-Hwa, Jung Eun-Ji, and Choi Si-Won as drinking friends, with a 2022–2023 second season.
Work made for hire
A work made for hire is a US copyright category in which the employer or commissioning party, not the creator, is treated as the author and copyright owner.
Work of a variable force
The work of a variable force is the mechanical work done by a force that changes along the displacement, computed as the line integral W = ∫ F · dr.
Work of art
Work of art: an entity created for aesthetic appreciation or regard established by prior art. Also called artwork; ontology of art. Philosophers debate whether works are physical objects, abstract types, or social constructs, and how art is defined.
Work of Breathing
Work of breathing (WOB, Wb): mechanical work respiratory muscles expend to overcome elastic and resistive loads, measured via esophageal pressure–volume loops (Campbell diagram); resting values 2.4–4 J/min; method-dependent.
Work sampling
Work sampling, also called activity sampling or the ratio delay technique, is a statistical method that estimates the proportions of time spent in defined activities through random instantaneous observations.
Work sharing
Work sharing, in its formal short-time work form, is a labor-market policy where firms cut hours instead of laying workers off, with government replacing part of lost wages.