PW may refer to:

Arts and media

* PW (rapper) (born 1992), English hip-hop artist * '' Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker'', a 2010 video game * ''

Pauly-Wissowa The Pauly encyclopedias or the Pauly-Wissowa family of encyclopedias, are a set of related encyclopedia An encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field o ...

'', a short name for the ''Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' * Pee Wee (singer) (born 1988), Mexican American singer and actor * ''Perfect World'' (video game), an online roleplaying game *

Persistent world A persistent world or persistent state world (PSW) is a virtual world which, by the definition given by Richard Bartle, "continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it". The first virtual worlds were ...

, a type of virtual world * '' Philadelphia Weekly'', a newspaper * '' Practical Wireless'', a UK-based amateur radio magazine * Production Workshop, a Brown University theater * ''

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of ...

'', a trade magazine * Palworld, a 2024 survival video game

Businesses and organizations

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology () is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professors (including 145 titular professors). The student body ...

, Politechnika Warszawska, a university in Poland *

Price Waterhouse PricewaterhouseCoopers, also known as PwC, is a multinational professional services network based in London, United Kingdom. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, along ...

, an accounting firm *

Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially ...

, an aerospace manufacturer * Protest Warrior, a political activist group * Physics Wallah, an online and offline education platform

Transportation

* Pacific Western Transportation, a bus transport company *

Providence and Worcester Railroad The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W; ) is a Class II railroad operating of tracks in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as New York (state), New York via trackage rights. The company was founded in 1844 to build ...

(reporting mark PW) *

Precision Air Precision Air Services Plc (operating as Precision Air; Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, DSE:PAL) is a List of airlines of Tanzania, Tanzanian airline based at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam. The airline operates scheduled pa ...

(IATA code PW), a current Tanzanian airline * German Wings (IATA code PW), a 1983-1990 German airline *

Pacific Western Airlines Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) was an airline that operated scheduled flights throughout western Canada and charter services around the world from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1987, PWA purchased Canadian Pacific Air Lines, and the merged a ...

(IATA code PW), a 1946-1987 Canadian airline

Places

Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands ...

(ISO code PW), an island nation *

Puerto Williams Puerto Williams (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Port Williams") is a city, port and naval base on Navarino Island in Chile. It faces the Beagle Channel. It is the Capital city, capital of Antártica Chilena Province, the Chilean Antarctic Provin ...

, a port in Chile

Science and technology

* .pw, the Internet domain for Palau *

Password A password, sometimes called a passcode, is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords were expected to be memorized, but the large number of password-protected services t ...

, a code for authentication * Pathetic Writer, a word processor software application *

Pennyweight A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, of a troy ounce, of a troy pound, avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams. It is abbreviated dwt, ''d'' standing for ''denarius'' (an ancient Roman coin), and later ...

, a unit of mass *

Petawatt 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 ...

(PW), a unit of power * Picowatt (pW), a unit of power * Precipitable water, a meteorological measure of the amount of water in the atmosphere *

Pseudo-wire In computer networking and telecommunications, a pseudowire (or pseudo-wire) is an emulation of a Point-to-point (telecommunications), point-to-point connection over a packet-switched network (PSN). The pseudowire emulates the operation of a "tr ...

, in computer networking and telecommunications

Other uses

* P. W. Botha (1916–2006), prime minister of South Africa *

Prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...

, a legal status in warfare * Paul Walker (1973-2013), actor known for the Fast And Furious franchise. * Kotwica, a World War II emblem of the Polish Underground State and Armia Krajowa. {{disambiguation