Raw

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Raw describes a material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cooked, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk. Raw also has symbolic meaning. See Claude Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the Cooked.

RAW may be a three-letter acronym for:

• Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency
• Ready and willing
• Rules as written
• Raw Architecture Workstation
• Robert Anton Wilson, American futurist and author

In technology, raw may refer to:

• RAW image format, a variety of image files used by digital cameras containing the unprocessed data from the sensor.
• Read and Write
• Read After Write, technologies such as CD-R and CD-RW which allow reading data immediately after writing, as opposed to CD-ROMs which usually go through mass replication before it can be read.
• RAW audio format, a filetype used to represent sound as Pulse-code modulation data, without header or metadata.
• An uncompressed disk image.
• a Unix file format containing insufficient information for proper screen mapping of characters. Linux User's Manual CONSOLECHARS(8)

In the entertainment industry, raw may refer to:

• RAW, a large-format, avant-garde alternative comics magazine launched in 1980 and edited by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman
• WWE Raw, a World Wrestling Entertainment program
• Raw FM, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series
• Raw Magazine, EMAP's metal magazine of the 1980s and early 1990s, relaunched as a Britpop magazine in the mid 1990s
• Eddie Murphy Raw, a live stand-up comedy recording
• Radio Warwick, the University of Warwick student radio station
• RAW, the Sierra Club newsletter
• Ramones RAW, a music documentary
• Raw Meat, a film
• R.A.W is an album by Daz Dillinger.
• R.A.W. Records, a record label

As a slang word, raw may refer to:

• Typically used in the United States to mean awesome, cool, amazing, spectacular.
• Raw is a common street name for heroin used in the midwest United States.
• Sexual intercourse engaged in without using a condom

Other possible uses:

• RAW (animanga), Unsubtitled or untranslated anime or manga
• Raw, an album by singer Monica
• The Mighty RAW, singer/composer Ron Wasserman a.k.a. Aaron Waters
• RAW (unbleached vegan rolling paper)
• RAW, a novel by Scott Monk
• Raw, a 1996 skateboard film from Thrasher Magazine