Dow may refer to:

Business

Dow Jones Industrial Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indice ...

, or simply the Dow, an American stock market index * Dow Inc., an American commodity chemical company **

Dow Chemical Company The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. The company was among the three largest chemical producers in the world in 2021. It is the operating subsidiary of Dow Inc., ...

, a subsidiary, an American multinational chemical corporation * Dow Breweries, a former Canadian brewing company

Ethnicities and languages

* Dow people, an ethnic group of Brazil * Dow language of the Dow people * dow, the ISO 639-3 code for the Doyayo language of Cameroon

Places

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 552,261. It borders County Antrim to the ...

, Northern Ireland, Chapman code DOW * Dow, Illinois, U.S. * Dow City, Iowa, U.S. *

Dow, Kentucky Dow is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. ...

, U.S. *

Dow Village (disambiguation) Dow Village may refer to: * Dow Village, Couva, Trinidad and Tobago * Dow Village, South Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago See also * Dow, Kentucky Dow is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), off ...

, two places in Trinidad and Tobago * Downingtown station, Pennsylvania, U.S., Amtrak station code DOW * Dow Nunatak, Antarctica * Dow Peak, Antarctica

Other uses

Dow (surname) Dow () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abigail Dow (born 1997), English rugby union player * Albert G. Dow (1808–1908), New York politician *Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), American painter, printmaker, photographer, a ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Dow Finsterwald Dow Henry Finsterwald, Sr. (September 6, 1929 – November 4, 2022) was an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the 1958 PGA Championship, 1958 PGA Championship. He won 11 Tour titles between 1955 and 1963, played on four Ry ...

(1929–2022), American golfer *

Dow Tennis Classic The Dow Tennis Classic or Dow Corning Tennis Classic (DCTC) is a WTA 125 level tennis tournament. It is played in October–November each year in Midland, Michigan. From 2010 to 2020, it used to be held as a $100,000 tournament as part of the ITF ...

, an ITF Women's Circuit tennis tournament * Dow University of Health Sciences, in Pakistan *

Deep ocean water Deep ocean water (DOW) is the name for cold, salty water found in the deep sea, starting at below the surface of Earth's oceans. Ocean water differs in temperature and salinity. Warm surface water is generally saltier than the cooler deep or pol ...

, a marine term *

Died of wounds Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United States Department of Defense, for example, say ...

, a military casualty classification *

Doppler on Wheels Doppler on Wheels (DOW) is a fleet of quickly deployable truck-mounted weather radars managed by FARM (Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets), an American research company affiliated with the University of Alabama Huntsville. The group, which ...

, devices used for meteorological research *

Down Orange Welfare Down Orange Welfare was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary vigilante group active in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. Operating in rural areas of County Down, the group faded after failing to win support away from larger groups such as the Ulster D ...

, Ulster loyalist vigilante group in Northern Ireland * Dow Cook, a fictional character in the '' Fusion'' comics series *

United States Department of War The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, als ...

, an extinct department of the United States government

Division of Wildlife

* Colorado Division of Wildlife now part of

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state parks system and the wildlife of the U.S. state of Colorado. Responsibilities include state parks, wildlife areas, and the Colorado Natural Areas Program. History *1937 – The state legislature ap ...

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) is part of the Utah Department of Natural Resources for the state of Utah in the United States. The mission of the Division of Wildlife Resources is to serve the people of Utah as trustee and guard ...

* Florida Division of Wildlife, now merged into the

Fish and Wildlife Research Institute The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is a Florida government agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Tallahassee. It manages and regulates the state's fish and wildlife resources, and enforces related laws. Officers ...

Nevada Department of Wildlife The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) is the state agency responsible for the restoration and management of fish and wildlife resources, and the promotion of boating safety on Nevada’s waters. NDOW has responsibility for the wildlife resourc ...

* For Alabama Division of Wildlife see Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources#Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries *

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is a state agency of Louisiana that maintains state wildlife and fishery areas. The agency is headquartered in the capital city of Baton Rouge. Mission The Louisiana Department of Wildlife ...