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
- Pacific Western Transportation;(PW) or (PWT) A Bus Company, based out of Toronto, with its headquarters in Calgary
- 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
- Phoenix Wright; can both refer to the game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and the character
- Pennywise, an American punk band
- Perfect World, a 3D MMORPG game developed by Beijing Perfect World
- Persistent world, a term used in online role-playing games
- Philadelphia Weekly, a tabloid newspaper
- 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
- Project Work, a compulsory H1 subject taken by all students in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level Examinations
- 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
- An abbreviation for Platform Wars, a type of tournament in Star Wars: Battlefront
- Pathetic Writer, a Word processor in Siag Office