W (disambiguation)

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W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

W may also refer to:

Contents 1 Broadcast media 2 Music and entertainment 3 Science and computing 4 Other uses

[edit] Broadcast media

• W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
• W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
• W. Channel, an Australian pay television channel

[edit] Music and entertainment

• W (Double You), a Japanese pop music duo
• W (film), a film released in 1974
• W (2008 film), a film by Oliver Stone due for release in late 2008
• W (magazine) is an American fashion magazine
• W, or the Memory of Childhood, 1975 novel by Georges Perec

[edit] Science and computing

• W (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
• W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
• Haplogroup W (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Lambert W function
• Watt, the SI derived unit for power
• W and Z bosons, subatomic particles
• W, chemical symbol for Tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram
• W, single letter abbreviation for the amino acid Tryptophan

[edit] Other uses

• W postcode area, a group of postcode districts in central and west London, England
• Five Ws of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
• W, for West, one of the four cardinal directions
• W, a Voiced labial-velar approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• "The W", nickname of Mississippi University for Women
• W Hotel, one of the hotels in the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide chain
• "W", nickname for George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States
• W, Day of the Week Codeused for weekend airfares (travel between Friday and Sunday)

Latin letter disambiguation
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