PW explained

PW may refer to:

Arts and media

• PW (rapper) (born 1992), English hip-hop artist
• , a 2010 video game
• Pauly-Wissowa, a short name for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
• Pee Wee (singer) (born 1988), Mexican American singer and actor
• Perfect World (video game), an online roleplaying game
• Persistent world, a type of virtual world
• Philadelphia Weekly, a newspaper
• Practical Wireless, a UK-based amateur radio magazine
• Production Workshop, a Brown University theater
• Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine
• Palworld, a 2024 survival video game

Businesses and organizations

• Warsaw University of Technology, Politechnika Warszawska, a university in Poland
• Price Waterhouse, an accounting firm
• Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace manufacturer
• Protest Warrior, a political activist group
• Physics Wallah, an online and offline education platform

Transportation

• Pacific Western Transportation, a bus transport company
• Providence and Worcester Railroad (reporting mark PW)
• Precision Air (IATA code PW), a current Tanzanian airline
• German Wings (IATA code PW), a 1983-1990 German airline
• Pacific Western Airlines (IATA code PW), a 1946-1987 Canadian airline

Places

• Palau (ISO code PW), an island nation
• Puerto Williams, a port in Chile

Science and technology

• .pw, the Internet domain for Palau
• Password, a code for authentication
• Pathetic Writer, a word processor software application
• Pennyweight, a unit of mass
• Petawatt (PW), a unit of power
• Picowatt (pW), a unit of power
• Precipitable water, a meteorological measure of the amount of water in the atmosphere
• Pseudo-wire, in computer networking and telecommunications

Other uses

• P. W. Botha (1916–2006), prime minister of South Africa
• Prisoner of war, a legal status in warfare
• Paul Walker (1973-2013), actor known for the Fast And Furious franchise.
• Kotwica, a World War II emblem of the Polish Underground State and Armia Krajowa.