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CW may stand for:
Science and technology
[edit]- centiwatt (cW), one hundredth of a watt
- Cω, a programming language
- CW complex, a type of topological space
- Carrier wave, in radio communications
- CodeWarrior, an integrated development environment by Metrowerks
- Constructed wetland, a man-made wetland to treat wastewater
- Continuous wave, a method of radio transmission (telegraphy) that carries Morse code, and a microwave theory
- ClarisWorks, an office suite now known as AppleWorks
- Drag coefficient, a measure of air resistance commonly denoted
- Contention Window, a network traffic technique
- chemical formula of tungsten carbide
Arts and media
[edit]Gaming
[edit]- Castle Wolfenstein, a 1981 video game
- Cube World, a video game
Publications
[edit]- Computerworld, an information technology magazine
- The Crimson White, a student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama
Other media
[edit]- The CW, an American television network/programming service
- The CW Plus, a national feed of the network
- Creative writing, any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature
- CloverWorks, a Japanese animation studio
Companies
[edit]- Cable & Wireless plc, a British telecommunications company
- Camping World, an outdoor equipment retailer
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Curtiss-Wright, an engineering company (NYSE: CW)
Military
[edit]- Chemical warfare, using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons
- Chemical weapon, munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans
- Chief warrant officer (when followed by a numerical designation of rank), an officer in a military organisation who is designated an officer by a warrant
- Cold War, a state of geopolitical tension following World War II
Places
[edit]- CW postcode area around Crewe, England
- Canada West, an obsolete designation for the western part of Canada
- Canada's Wonderland, an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
- Cook Islands (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO designation), a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean
- County Carlow, in Ireland
- Curaçao (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code CW), a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region
- Calw, a city in southern Germany
Other uses
[edit]- Air Marshall Islands (IATA code CW), an airline based in Majuro, in the Marshall Islands
- Calendar week
- Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, a hymnal used by the WELS
- Clockwise, motion that proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands
- Common Worship, a liturgy of the Church of England
- Conventional wisdom, a description of ideas that are generally accepted as true
- Cruiserweight (boxing), a weight class in professional boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight
- Content warning
- Culture war
- C. W. Anderson (born 1970), professional wrestler
- A suffix for the cool-white halophoshate fluorescent lamp phosphor. See here: Fluorescent-Lamp Formats