Words containing s-k-y-w-a-v
Maybe these words will be useful:
- group of twenty finance ministers and central bank governors — a group of twenty people representing the financial interests of major industrial nations and blocs
- sky wave — a radio wave propagated upward from earth, whether reflected by the ionosphere or not.
- make heavy weather of something — to carry something out with great difficulty or unnecessarily great effort
- to have a good working relationship with somebody — if you have a good working relationship with sb, you are on good terms with them and can work effectively with them
- to make heavy weather of something — If you say that someone is making heavy weather of a task, you are critical of them because they are doing it in an inefficient way and are making it seem more difficult than it really is.
- to make short/heavy/easy/quick work of sth — You can use work to talk about how easily or quickly a particular task is done. For example, if a person or thing makes short work of doing something or makes light work of it, they do it quickly and easily.
- advanced network systems architecture — (networking) (ANSA) A "software bus" based on a model for distributed systems developed as an ESPRIT project.
- advanced research projects agency network — (networking) (ARPANET) A pioneering longhaul wide area network funded by DARPA (when it was still called "ARPA"?). It became operational in 1968 and served as the basis for early networking research, as well as a central backbone during the development of the Internet. The ARPANET consisted of individual packet switching computers interconnected by leased lines. Protocols used include FTP and telnet. It has now been replaced by NSFnet.
- laboratory virtual instrument engineering workbench — (tool) (LabVIEW) A package from National Instruments Corp originally developed to provide a graphical user interface to instruments connected by the IEEE 488 (GPIB) bus. It has powerful graphical editing facilities for defining and interconnecting "virtual instruments".
- state university of new york — (body) (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state.