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WAP

(wæp)

n acronym for

(Telecommunications) Wireless Application Protocol: a global application that enables mobile phone users to access the internet and other information services

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol: a protocol for transferring documents, esp. Web pages, over a computer network to handheld wireless devices.

[1995–2000]

Wap

a bundle or truss of straw; a sudden storm.

Examples: wap of snow, 1818; of straw, 1828.

Translations

WAP

[wæp]

A. N ABBR =Wireless Application Protocol → WAP f

B. CPD WAP phone N → teléfono m WAP

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

WAP

[ˈwæp] n abbr (=wireless application protocol) → WAP m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

WAP

n (Comput, Telec) abbr of wireless application protocol → WAP nt

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WAP A: 2-Chloro-4,6-bis (N-phenyl-p-phenylenediamino)-1,3,5-triazine

WAP B: 2,4-Dichloro-6- (N-phenyl-p-phenylenediamino) - 1,3,5 -triazine

Subsequent mixes were made in a B mixer where the second stage mix was used to incorporate the resorcinol, cobalt and WAP products to a drop temperature of 120[degrees]C (about five minutes and a final mix was used to incorporate the curatives and remaining adhesion promoters to a drop temperature of 100[degrees]C (about three minutes).

NR breaker compound containing specific chlorotriazines as adhesion promoters

Earlier this year, Fetty Wap was involved in another controversy when an alleged sex tape featuring the rapper and his ex-girlfriend Alexis Skyy leaked online.

Fetty Wap Brawl Triggers New Jersey Shooting

A wide range of services is already available for WAP users, and many new services are under development.

com/on the Web or http:// mobile.smartray, com/on WAP phones).

With so many organizations providing, or planning to provide, information and business services via WAP-enabled mobile phones and other devices, it is not surprising to find that WAP directories and search services are also emerging to support users of these devices.

The Internet In Your Pocket

InfoCreator AB, Hoganas, Sweden, can offer your company a simple means of publishing your information via WAP phones:

It's a straightforward way of beginning to publish your own information via WAP phones.

WAP phone users will be able to read your information in the same order as you've written it.

NEW SOFTWARE PUBLISHES INFORMATION TO WAP PHONES

With the help of a WAP Generator, it will be possible for companies to publish information for employees out in the field, send instructions to truck drivers, information to sales personnel or instructions to staff who are working out of doors.

Thanks to the fact that the WAP standard has been developed as a result of cooperation between the world's leading phone manufacturers, it doesn't matter which make of WAP phone users decide to buy.