CW

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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 c w {\displaystyle \mathbf {c} _{\mathrm {w} }\,}
  • 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

Topics referred to by the same term
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