WS

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WS, Ws or ws may refer to:

• Five Ws, a concept in journalism
• Ware Shoals Railroad (AAR reporting mark WS)
• Wavetable synthesis; the method to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer
• Web services a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications
• Samoa (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code), or .ws (Top-level domain)
• The W's, a 1990s Christian swing band
• WestJet (IATA code)
• the postnominal letters for a Writer to the Signet in Scotland, a title for some Scottish solicitors
• the picture format widescreen
• work safe, a web acronym interchangeable with the more widespread SFW and opposite to the acronym NSFW
• White space, in graphic design, abbreviated "ws"
• Williams syndrome
• Wa alaykom assalam, arabic response for greeting
• Werner syndrome
• Watersports, a term referring to the sexual fetish of urolagnia
• Women's studies
• World Series
• Writers to the Signet
• WS FTP, a File Transfer Protocol client
• Severe thunderstorm watch (WS), issued by the Storm Prediction Center
• the United Kingdom Postcode for the Walsall area in the West Midlands. From WS1 to WS15, it covers the area from Walsall, Lichfield to Rugeley.
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina