"WAL" meaning in All languages combined

See WAL on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper-noun}} WAL
  1. (sports) Abbreviation of Wales. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Wales
    Sense id: en-WAL-en-name-Ju8my11S Categories (other): Sports, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 32 32 20 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Noun [English]

Forms: WALs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} WAL (countable and uncountable, plural WALs)
  1. (databases, uncountable) Acronym of write-ahead logging. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Alternative form of: write-ahead logging
    Sense id: en-WAL-en-noun-kQPBLupn Categories (other): Databases, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 32 32 20 Topics: computing, databases, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (databases, countable) Acronym of write-ahead log. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable Alternative form of: write-ahead log
    Sense id: en-WAL-en-noun-GtqgKCBD Categories (other): Databases, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 32 32 20 Topics: computing, databases, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Symbol [Translingual]

Head templates: {{mul-symbol/script|Latn}} Latn, {{head|mul|symbol|||or||or||or||cat2=|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=|head2=|head3=|head4=|image=|nolinkhead=|sc=Latn|sort=}} WAL, {{mul-symbol}} WAL
  1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Sierra Leone. Wikipedia link: Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#Indeterminate reservations, International Organization for Standardization, Sierra Leone Synonyms: SLE
    Sense id: en-WAL-mul-symbol-NflN5WEp Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Translingual entries with incorrect language header, Translingual terms with redundant script codes, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 32 32 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 16 21 19 44 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 26 25 33

Inflected forms

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