A&W, AW, Aw, aW or aw may refer to:

Companies

A&W Restaurants A&W Restaurants, Inc. (also known as Allen & Wright Restaurants) is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its Hamburger, "Burger Family" combos, draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy ...

A&W Root Beer A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen – A&W root beer's official history and primarily available in the United States and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&W ...

A&W (Canada) A&W is a fast-food restaurant chain store, chain in Canada, franchising, franchised by A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. The company was initially a subsidiary of the U.S.-based A&W Restaurants chain, with the subsidiary opening its first franchi ...

Addison-Wesley Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles ...

, publishers *

Africa World Airlines Africa World Airlines Limited (AWA) is a Ghanaian airline company that was incorporated in 2010 and commenced flights in 2012. It has its head office in Airport City Accra, and its main hub at Kotoka International Airport in Accra. It is the la ...

, IATA code * Prefix for helicopters made by

AgustaWestland AgustaWestland was an Anglo-Italian helicopter design and manufacturing company, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica (now known as Leonardo). It was formed in July 2000 as an Anglo-Italian multinational company, when Finmeccani ...

Alienware Alienware Corporation is an American computer hardware subsidiary brand, but not of Dell. Their product range is dedicated to gaming computers and accessories and can be identified by their Extraterrestrial life, alien-themed designs. Alienware ...

* Allied Waste Industries, Inc, stock symbol on NYSE *

Armstrong Whitworth Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. With headquarters in Elswick, Tyne and Wear, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth built armaments, ships, locomot ...

, a British manufacturing company

Media and entertainment

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Accel World is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by . It has been published by ASCII Media Works under its Dengeki Bunko imprint since February 2009. The series has spawned three manga series; ''Accel World'' b ...

'', a Japanese light novel series * ''

Active Worlds ''Active Worlds'' is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the ''Active Worlds'' universe, and explore 3D vi ...

'', a 3D virtual reality platform * ''Another World'' (TV series), an American soap opera * ''

Athletics Weekly ''AW'' (formerly ''Athletics Weekly'') is a monthly track and field magazine published in the United Kingdom by Athletics Weekly Limited. The magazine covers news, results, fixtures, coaching and product advice for all aspects of track and field ...

'', a monthly track and field magazine published in the United Kingdom * ''

Aviation Week ''Aviation Week & Space Technology'', often abbreviated ''Aviation Week'' or ''AW&ST'', is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network, a division of Informa. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aeros ...

'', magazine * Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, an action video game

People

A. H. Weiler Abraham H. Weiler (December 10, 1908 – January 22, 2002) was an American writer and critic best known for being a film critic and motion picture editor for ''The New York Times''. He also served a term as chairman of the New York Film Critics ...

(1908 – 2002), ''The New York Times'' film critic whose early reviews were signed with his initials A. W. * A. W. (poet), anonymous 16th century poet * Abraham Washington (A. W.), American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator *

Alan Walker Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded (Alan Walker song), Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone (Alan Walker song), Alone", "All Falls Down (Alan Walker song), All Falls Down" (with Noah Cy ...

(born 1997), English-Norwegian music producer and DJ *

Aw (father) Aw (sometimes spelled ''Au'') is an honorific title in the Harari and Somali languages. It commonly designates a father, respected elder or saint in Harari and Somali languages.Transactions of the Somali Academy of Sciences and Arts Volume 1 pa ...

, honorific title in the Harari and Somali languages * Aw (surname), a Cantonese surname * John-Allison Weiss, an American singer-songwriter formerly known as A. W. *

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

, a leading figure in the pop art movement.

Places

Ahrweiler (district) Ahrweiler () is a district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Euskirchen (district), Euskirchen, Rhein-Sieg and the city of Bonn in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a ...

, Germany, vehicle registration code *

Aruba Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná Peninsula, Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao. In 19 ...

(ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code AW)

Science and technology

* .aw, the internet top level domain country code for Aruba *

Airwatt Airwatt or air watt is a unit of measurement that represents the true suction power of vacuum cleaners. It is calculated by multiplying the airflow (in cubic metres per second) by the suction pressure (in pascals). This measurement reflects the ...

, a unit of the effectiveness of vacuum cleaners * Aw, categorization for

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...

in the Köppen classification system * AW, in German email subject line, equivalent to Re: * aw, or

attowatt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named in honor o ...

, an SI unit of power * a_w, or

water activity In food science, water activity (''aw'') of a food is the ratio of its vapor pressure to the vapor pressure of water at the same temperature, both taken at equilibrium. Pure water has a water activity of one. Put another way, ''aw'' is the equi ...

, the relative availability of water in a substance

Other uses

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Agencja Wywiadu The Foreign Intelligence Agency ( (; or ) is a Polish intelligence agency tasked with the gathering of public and secret information abroad for the Republic of Poland. It was created in 2002 from the reform and split of , which was split into ...

'', the Polish foreign intelligence service *

Ahnapee and Western Railway The Ahnapee and Western Railway (A&W) was a common carrier shortline railroad located in northeastern Wisconsin. The railroad ran from a connection with the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad at Casco Junction to the lakeshore terminals of ...

, A&W *

Arctic Warfare Cold-weather warfare, also known as cold-region warfare, arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, Mud season, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and t ...

, a sniper rifle *

Anthony Wayne Local School District Anthony Wayne Local School District is a school district in Northwest Ohio. The school district serves students who live in the municipalities of Whitehouse and Waterville, and in Monclova Township; it also serves students in parts of Provi ...

, an American school district in Ohio *

Aviation Warfare Systems Operator Naval Aircrewman (NAC) is an enlisted general rating of the U.S. Navy. Sailors in NAC ratings serve as aircraft systems operators or inflight system maintenance technicians aboard U.S. Navy fixed and rotary winged aircraft. They perform duties a ...