Dow

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Dow may mean:

• Dow Jones & Company, a financial publisher
• Charles Dow, the founder of said financial publisher
• Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of major US stocks
• Dow Jones–AIG Commodity Index, a commodity price index
• Dow Chemical Company, a manufacturer of plastics and other chemicals
• Dow (character), in the Fusion series of comic-books
• Dhow, a sailing ship
• Tony Dow, an actor most famous as the older brother, Wally, in the Leave it to Beaver TV series from the 1950's and 60's.

DOW may stand for:

• Deep ocean water, a marine term
• Died of wounds, a military casualty classification
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a strategy game
• Doppler On Wheels, an experimental portable Doppler radar device used for meteorological research
• United States Department of War, an extinct department now part of the United States Department of Defense
• Day of week, an abbreviation often used in date formats