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Deutsch: Rollstuhl / Español: Silla de ruedas / Português: Cadeira de rodas / Français: Fauteuil roulant / Italiano: Sedia a rotelle
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking. The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand. Often there are handles behind the seat for someone else to do the pushing. Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability.
Deutsch: Fenster / Español: Ventana / Português: Janela / Français: Fenétre / Italiano: Finestra
A window is a transparent or translucent opening in a wall, door or vehicle that allows the passage of light and, if not closed or sealed, air and sound. Windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material. Windows are held in place by frames. Many glazed windows may be opened, to allow ventilation, or closed, to exclude inclement weather. Other definition is following.
Wet combustion is described as an in-situ combustion technique in which water is injected simultaneously or alternately with air into a formation.
Deutsch: Industrielle Tierwelt / Español: Vida Silvestre Industrial / Português: Vida Selvagem Industrial/ Français: Faune industrielle / Italiano: Fauna industriale /
Wildlife is characterized as any living creature, wild by nature, endowed with sensation and power of voluntary motion and including mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, which spend a majority of their life cycle on land.