PW

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PW may refer to:

Arts and media

• PW (rapper) (born 1992), English hip-hop artist
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a 2010 video game
• Pee Wee (entertainer) (born 1988), Mexican American singer and actor
• Perfect World (video game), an online roleplaying game
• Persistent world, a type of virtual world
• Philadelphia Weekly, a newspaper
• Production Workshop, a Brown University theater
• Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

• Pacific Western Transportation, a bus transport company
• Providence and Worcester Railroad, reporting mark PW
• Precision Air, a current Tanzanian airline (IATA code PW)
• German Wings, a 1983-1990 German airline (IATA code PW)
• Pacific Western Airlines, a 1946-1987 Canadian airline (IATA code PW)

Other businesses and organizations

• Politechnika Warszawska, a university in Poland
• Price Waterhouse, an accounting firm
• Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver, BC
• Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace manufacturer
• Protest Warrior, a political activist group

Places

• Palau, an island nation (ISO code PW)
• Puerto Williams, a port in Chile

Science and technology

• .pw, a top-level Internet domain
• Password, a code for authentication
• Pathetic Writer, a word processor software application
• Pennyweight, a unit of mass
• Petawatt, a unit of power
• Picowatt, a unit of power
• Precipitable water, a meteorological measure of the amount of water in the atmosphere
• Pseudo-wire, a network architecture term

Other uses

• P. W. Botha (1916–2006), prime minister of South Africa
• Prisoner of war, a legal status in warfare