GW explained

GW may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)

Periodicals

GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another

Calendar

Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays

Places

Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
- George Washington University Hospital

Science, technology and mathematics

Physics

GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 10⁹ watts
Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
- The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as Fantasy football (association)
.gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see
GW, the human gene MASTL

People with the initials GW

George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States

See also