GW

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.

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

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 Witt group § Grothendieck-Witt ring
  • GW, the human gene MASTL

People with the initials GW

See also

  • Gateway (disambiguation)
  • George Washington (disambiguation)
  • Ghostwriter (disambiguation)
  • Goo (disambiguation)
  • GU (disambiguation)
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