Global Statements Dictionary
wo
word
(wurd') n.
1. something spoken or written that communicates a meaning but cannot be divided into parts that could be used separately.
2. a sequence of letters, sometimes including other characters, that forms a meaningful unit of a program. A word is used as a name or keyword. SAS words are formed of letters, underscores, and digits. The first character of a SAS word is a letter or underscore.
3. token.
4. a quantity of data communicated or processed as a unit, consisting of one or several bytes.
WORDDATE
Format. Ref: PSPPR:Formats:Time Formats. PSPL:Informats and Formats:Time Fields. SLRD:Formats.
WORDDATX
Format. Ref: PSPPR:Formats:Time Formats. PSPL:Informats and Formats:Time Fields. SLRD:Formats.
WORDF
Format. Ref: PSPPR:Formats:Numeric Formats. PSPL:Informats and Formats:Numeric Fields. SLRD:Formats.
word processor
n.
a program for editing and formatting text.
word wrap
n.
a process of dividing text into lines of approximately equal lengths by locating line breaks between words.
WORDS
Format. Ref: PSPPR:Formats:Numeric Formats. PSPL:Informats and Formats:Numeric Fields. SLRD:Formats.
WORK
System option. Ref: PSPPR:System Options. SLRD:SAS System Options.
WORKINIT
System option. Ref: PSPPR:System Options. PSPL:Execution:Session. SLRD:SAS System Options.
workstation
(wurk' stA' shun) n.
1. an arrangement of furniture and equipment at which a person works.
2. a class of computer similar to a desktop computer, but having any of various distinguishing features, generally characterized by one or more of the following:
- used for a specific task by multiple people at different times.
- having significantly greater memory, storage, processing power, etc., than usual for a single-user computer.
- connected to a multiuser computer in place of a terminal to provide additional specialized capabilities to a single user.
- having specialized capabilities not ordinarily found in a desktop computer, such as scientific measurement equipment, ports for audio or video production equipment, or advanced signal processing hardware.
- configured for a single user, but running an operating system capable of supporting multiple users.
WORKTERM
System option. Ref: PSPPR:System Options. PSPL:Execution:Session. SLRD:SAS System Options.
World Wide Web
n.
the network of web pages published on the Internet.