CW

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CW may stand for:

• Calendar Week
• Clockwise
• Air Marshall Islands IATA code
• Cook Islands (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO diagram)
• Warrant Officer (when followed by a numerical designation of rank)
• Cruiserweight, in boxing
• CW complex, a type of topological space
• Common Worship, a liturgy of the Church of England
• Cold War
• Chemical warfare, and chemical weapons
• Conventional wisdom, a description of ideas that are generally accepted as true
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Creative Writing, a class in high school
• Canada West, an obsolete designation for the western part of Canada

In industry:

• Chilled Water

In media:

• The CW Television Network, a television network which launched in September 2006 as a merger of the UPN and The WB networks
• Computerworld, an information technology magazine
• The Crimson White, the student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama
• Cryptic Writings, seventh studio album by Megadeth

In technology:

• Carrier wave
• Continuous wave, a method of radio transmission (telegraphy) and a microwave theory
• Morse code (in amateur radio slang)
• Cω, a programming language
• CodeWarrior, the integrated development environment by Metrowerks
• ClarisWorks, the office suite now known as AppleWorks

Companies:

• Cable & Wireless, a British telecommunications company
• Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW)

cW may stand for:

• centiwatt, a unit of power

C_w may stand for:

• Drag coefficient, a measure of air resistance