WAK

See also: wak and Wak

Translingual

Symbol

WAK

  1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Wake Island from 1974 to 1986.
    Synonym: WK (alpha-2)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of UMI, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

English

Noun

WAK (plural WAKs)

  1. Initialism of wearable artificial kidney.
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 25 July 2020, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      The WAK works by sucking blood from a patient’s vein and pumping it through a membrane that consists of hollow, semi-permeable fibres a few microns across.
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