WAL

WAL

See also: wal, Wal, wäl, Wål, wał, wal•, and wal-

Translingual

Symbol

WAL

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Sierra Leone.

   Synonym: SLE (for general use)

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Sierra Leone is SLE.

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English

Proper noun

WAL

1. (sports) Abbreviation of Wales.

Noun

WAL (uncountable)

1. (databases) Acronym of write-ahead logging or write-ahead log.
   • 2012, Eric Redmond; Jim Wilson, Jacquelyn Carter, editor, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks‎, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

     In HBase, logs are appended to the WAL before any edit operations (put and increment) are persisted to disk.

Anagrams

• AWL, Law, WLA, awl, law, lwa