PW

PW or pw may refer to:

Airlines:

• Precision Air, a Tanzanian airline currently using the IATA code PW
• German Wings, a German airline using IATA code PW from 1989 — 1990
• Pacific Western Airlines, an airline that merged into Canadian Airlines International; used IATA code PW from 1946 — 1987

Other Companies and Organizations:

• Pacific Western Transportation (PW) or (PWT), a bus company based out of Toronto, with its headquarters in Calgary
• Piggly Wiggly, an American supermarket chain
• Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft engine manufacturer
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international accounting and business consulting firm
• Production Workshop, a student-run theater group at Brown University
• Providence and Worcester Railroad

Entertainment:

• Pennywise (band), 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
• Peter Wiggin, a character in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card
• Philadelphia Weekly, a tabloid newspaper
• Phoenix Wright can both refer to :
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a game
  • Phoenix Wright (character), a character
• Pee Wee, Mexican American singer and actor

Mathematics and Science:

• Petawatt, a unit of power
• Pennyweight (PW) or (PWT), a small unit of mass
• Picowatt, a unit used for measuring noise levels, commonly abbreviated pW

Media:

• Pauly-Wissowa, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship
• Publishers Weekly, a magazine covering the book publishing industry

Places:

• Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean; Palau's postal abbreviation is PW
  • .pw, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Palau
• Puerto Williams, a port on Tierra del Fuego

Schools:

• Prince of Wales Secondary School in Vancouver, BC
• Politechnika Warszawska, the Warsaw University of Technology, in Poland

Sports:

• Professional Wrestling

Technology:

• Pseudo-wire, an emulation of a native service over a Packet Switched Network
• An abbreviation for "Pulse Width" in electronics. See also Pulse-width modulation.

Other Uses:

• Policewoman, a female police officer
• Potable water, a rating on pipes and fittings, meaning that they can be used for potable water and are pressure rated
• Pieter Willem Botha, a President of South Africa from 1984–1989
• Paul Wilson (musician), a bass guitarist for Snow Patrol
• Power window, an automobile window which is raised and lowered by a switch
• Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder
• Prisoner of war, a soldier who is imprisoned by an enemy (also "POW")
• Protest Warrior, a movement of college students, counter-protesting anti-war activists
• An abbreviation for password
• An abbreviation for Platform Wars, a type of tournament in Star Wars: Battlefront
• Pathetic Writer, a Word processor in Siag Office
• Profit warning, a financial warning about lower profits

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