GW may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

Games Workshop Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer (game), Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake ...

, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975) * ''

Guild Wars ''Guild Wars'' is an online role-playing game franchise developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft. The games were critically well received and won many editor's choice awards, as well as awards such as "D.I.C.E. Award for Role-Playing Game ...

'', an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)

Periodicals

* ''

GateWorld The ''Stargate'' fandom is the community of fans of the military science fiction film ''Stargate (film), Stargate'' and its Spinoff (media), spinoff Television series, television and web series including ''Stargate SG-1'' (SG1), ''Stargate Infini ...

'', a ''Stargate'' fan news blog (published from 1999) * ''

Gazeta Wyborcza (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), t ...

'', a Polish newspaper (from 1989) * ''

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ( (abbreviated as ''GW or GKW'') is an ongoing project of the Berlin State Library and appears in conjunction with the print edition of the union catalogue of incunabula. The serves as a bibliography or collection of cradle prints or incunabu ...

'', a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925) *'' Golden Words'', a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

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Ghost Whisperer ''Ghost Whisperer'' is an American supernatural television series, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005, to May 21, 2010. The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon ( Jennifer Love Hewitt), who has the ability to see and communicate w ...

'', a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010) *

Ghostwriter A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author. Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and political leaders often h ...

, someone hired to author texts credited to another

Calendar

Golden Week (Japan) or is a holiday period in Japan from 29 April to 5 May containing multiple public holidays. It is also known as . One of Japan's largest holiday periods of the year, Golden Week often sees a surge in vacation travel throughout the country. De ...

, a period containing a number of holidays

Places

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

(ISO 3166 country code) * Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code) *

George Washington Bridge The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, with the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is named after George W ...

, Hudson River, New York, U.S. *

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by ...

, in Washington, D.C., U.S. **

George Washington University Hospital The George Washington University Hospital (GWUH) is a short-stay hospital in Washington, D.C. affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Since 2022, the hospital has been wholly owned and operated ...

Science, technology and mathematics

Physics

GW approximation The ''GW'' approximation (GWA) is an approximation made in order to calculate the self-energy of a many-body system of electrons. The approximation is that the expansion of the self-energy ''Σ'' in terms of the single particle Green's function ...

, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy *

Gigawatt 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 ...

(GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 10⁹ watts *

Gravitational wave Gravitational waves are oscillations of the gravitational field that Wave propagation, travel through space at the speed of light; they are generated by the relative motion of gravity, gravitating masses. They were proposed by Oliver Heaviside i ...

s, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves ** The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

* Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as

Fantasy football (association) Fantasy football is a game in which participants assemble an imaginary team of real-life association football, football players and score points based on those players' actual statistical performance or their perceived contribution on the field o ...

* .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau *

GW-BASIC GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA. Functionally identical to BASICA, its BASIC interpreter is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the ori ...

, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language *

Global warming Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes ...

, the ongoing climatic event *

Gromov–Witten invariant In mathematics, specifically in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, Gromov–Witten (GW) invariants are rational numbers that, in certain situations, count pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic man ...

, in symplectic topology * Grothendieck–Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see * GW, the human gene

MASTL ''MASTL'' is an official symbol provided by HGNC for human gene whose official name is micro tubule associated serine/threonine kinase like. This gene is 32,1 kbps long. This gene is also known as GW, GWL, THC2, MAST-L, GREATWALL. This is present ...

People with the initials ''GW''

George Washington George Washington (, 1799) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot (American Revoluti ...

(1732–1799), first president of the United States *

Gene Wilder Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his portrayal of Willy Wonka in ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Fa ...

(1933–2016), American actor and comedian *

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he i ...

(born 1946), forty-third president of the United States