WYSIWYG
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English
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Etymology
WYSIWYG is short for What you see is what you get. Coined by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
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Pronunciation
"wIzi%wIg or "wIz@%wIg
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Noun
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- (acronym) (computing{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}) A computer program which allows for editing a document in an on-screen representation which is identical to what the printed version thereof would look like.
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Translations
- Chinese:
- Computer science: ç´æ¥å¯è¦æ¸æ (zhÃjiÄ kÄjià n shùjù) "Directly visible date"
- Informal: æè¦å³æå¾ (suÇ jìan wéi suÇ dé) "All that seen is all that gotten"
- German: WYSIWYG
- Hebrew: ×× ×©××ª× ×¨××× ×× ×× ×©××ª× ×ק×× (Informal, there is no formal translation)
- Romanian: ceea ce vezi e ceea ce vei obţine
- Portuguese: O que você vê é o que você tem