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wife acceptance factor

wife acceptance factor noun: an assessment of the visual design elements of a consumer product (e.g. a home music system).

Noun

wife acceptance factor

  1. (informal) An assessment of the visual design elements of a consumer product (e.g. a home music system).
    Synonyms:
    WAF

Synonyms of wife acceptance factor

Origin of wife acceptance factor

* First used by Larry Greenhill in September 1983, writing for Stereophile magazine, but Greenhill credited fellow reviewer and music professor Lewis Lipnick with coining the term. * The implication is that men tend to appreciate the performance of a product whereas women focus on aesthetics.

Questions about wife acceptance factor

What does wife acceptance factor mean?
Wife acceptance factor means an assessment of the visual design elements of a consumer product (e.g. a home music system).
What part of speech is wife acceptance factor?
Wife acceptance factor is a noun.

Words near wife acceptance factor in the dictionary

  1. Wiests
  2. Wiethe
  3. Wiethes
  4. wif
  5. wife
  6. wife acceptance factor
  7. wife beater
  8. wife beaters
  9. wife carrying
  10. wife guy
  11. wife guys

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