AWS

abbreviation for

automatic warning system: a train safety system which gives audible warnings about the signals being passed, and can apply the brakes automatically if necessary

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Examples from the Web for aws

Contemporary Examples of aws

When companies sign up for AWS, they choose a geographical location for their data.
Blame It on the Cloud: Amazon Outage Shows Peril of Outsourcing Data
Daniel Gross
October 25, 2012
Those affected Tuesday morning were clients whose data was stored at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) facility in Northern Virginia.
Blame It on the Cloud: Amazon Outage Shows Peril of Outsourcing Data
Daniel Gross
October 25, 2012

Historical Examples of aws

Austrian, aws′tri-an, adj. of or pertaining to Austria, an empire of Central Europe.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
Aws ut wuz in th' beginnin', uz now awn ever shawl be, worl' wi'out end—Aamen!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
Elbert Hubbard