CW explained

CW may stand for:

Science and technology

• 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

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• Contention Window, a network traffic technique
• chemical formula of tungsten carbide

Arts and media

Gaming

• Castle Wolfenstein, a 1981 video game
• Cube World, a video game

Publications

• Computerworld, an information technology magazine
• The Crimson White, a student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama

Other media

• 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

• Cable & Wireless plc, a British telecommunications company
• Camping World, an outdoor equipment retailer
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Curtiss-Wright, an engineering company (NYSE: CW)

Military

• 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

• 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

• Air Marshall Islands (IATA code CW), an airline based in Majuro, in the Marshall Islands
• Calendar week
• , 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
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• Culture war
• C. W. Anderson (born 1970), professional wrestler
• A suffix for the cool-white halophoshate fluorescent lamp phosphor. See here: Fluorescent-Lamp Formats