PW

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PW or pw may stand for:

• Potable water; in plumbing, "PW" is used as a rating on pipes and fittings, meaning that they can be used for potable water, and are pressure rated
• Petawatt, a unit of power
• Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean; Palau's postal abbreviation is PW
• Pauly-Wissowa, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship
• Pennywise, an American punk band
• Persistent world, a term used in online role-playing games
• Picowatt, a unit used for measuring noise levels, commonly abbreviated pW
• Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa from 1984-1989. Was commonly known as PW
• Piggly Wiggly, a U.S. supermarket chain
• Power window, an automobile window which is raised and lowered by a switch
• Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder
• Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft engine manufacturer
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international accounting and business consulting firm
• Prince of Wales Secondary School in Vancouver, BC
• Prisoner of war, a soldier who is imprisoned by an enemy (also "POW")
• Production Workshop, a student-run theater group at Brown University
• Professional Wrestling
• Protest Warrior, a movement of college students, counter-protesting anti-war activists
• Providence and Worcester Railroad (AAR reporting mark "PW")
• Pseudo-wire, an emulation of a native service over a Packet Switched Network
• Publishers Weekly, a magazine covering the book publishing industry
• Politechnika Warszawska, the Warsaw University of Technology, in Poland
• An abbreviation for password
• The IATA code for Precision Air based in Tanzania
• Paranthian Warriors, a free 2D MMORPG