WAIS

WAIS definition - telecom
A UNIX-based system of servers that enables users to specify the databases requested for search, and to conduct a subject-matter search on the basis of keywords. See also browser, server, and UNIX.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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