WS, Ws, or ws may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Ware Shoals Railroad The Ware Shoals Railroad was a shortline connecting the town of Ware Shoals, South Carolina, to the Southern Railway and Piedmont and Northern Railway (later Seaboard Coast Line) at Shoals Junction, South Carolina, a distance of . History ...

(reporting mark WS), South Carolina, United States *

WestJet WestJet Airlines, is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1994, it is the second-largest airline in Canada and the eighth-largest airline in North America by frequency. It began operations in 1996 with 220 employee ...

(IATA airline code WS) *

Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet The Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet is a private society of Scotland, Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up o ...

, in post-nomial abbreviation *

Williams Street Williams Street Productions, LLC, formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries, is an American animation and live action television production studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a unit of Warner Bros. ...

, the production arm for Cartoon Network’s nighttime programming block, Adult Swim *

Warm Showers Warm Showers (WS) is a non-profit hospitality exchange service for people engaging in bicycle touring. The platform is a gift economy — hosts are not supposed to charge for lodging and are not bound. The legal form is a Colorado 501(c)(3) non ...

, a non-profit hospitality exchange network for world cyclists. *

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an American publicly traded consumer retail company that sells kitchenware and home furnishings. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company has 625 brick and mortar stores and distribut ...

, American kitchenware and home furnishings retailer. *

Wikisource Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content source text, textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it is also the name for each instance of that project, one f ...

, an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki

Places

WS postcode area The WS postcode area, origin is West Staffordshire from when all the areas were part of West Staffordshire until 1974 when the West Midlands was formed. WS postcode is also now known as the Walsall postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management ...

, West Midlands, UK *

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code WS) *

Winschoten railway station Winschoten (; Railway stations in the Netherlands#List of stations, with their official abbreviations, abbreviation: Ws) is an unstaffed train station, railway station in Winschoten in the Netherlands. It is located on the Harlingen–Nieuwesch ...

, the Netherlands, station code *

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the List of municipalities in North Carolina, fifth-most populous ...

, United States

Science and technology

* .ws, the Internet country code top-level domain for Samoa * ws://

WebSocket WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing a full-duplex, simultaneous two-way communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. The WebSocket protocol was standardized by the Internet Engineering ...

protocol prefix in a URI *

Watt second The joule ( , or ; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). In terms of SI base units, one joule corresponds to one kilogram- metre squared per second squared One joule is equal to the amount of work done ...

(Ws) or Joule, a unit of energy *

Web service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

, software system designed to support machine-to-machine interaction over the Web *

Werner syndrome Werner syndrome (WS) or Werner's syndrome, also known as "adult progeria",James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). ''Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology''. (10th ed.). Saunders. . is a rare autosomal recessive disord ...

, premature aging *

White striping White striping (abbreviated WS) is a condition in poultry where white fat deposits replace muscle in stripes along muscle fibers. It is considered a type of myopathy, primarily of the Pectoralis major muscle. There does not appear to be direct h ...

, a condition in poultry where fat replaces muscle *

Williams syndrome Williams syndrome (WS), also Williams–Beuren syndrome (WBS), is a genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body. Facial features frequently include a broad forehead, underdeveloped chin, short nose, and full cheeks. Mild to moderate int ...

, a developmental disorder *

WonderSwan The is a handheld game console released in Japan by Bandai. Developed in collaboration with Gunpei Yokoi's company Koto Laboratory, it was the final piece of hardware Yokoi worked on before his death in 1997. Launched in March 1999 during the ...

, handheld game console

Sports

World Sailing World Sailing is the international sports governing body for sailing (sport), sailing; it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the International Yac ...

, world governing body for the sport of sailing * The

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB). It has been contested since between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winning team, determined through a best- ...

, the annual championship series of Major League Baseball postseason *

World Series (disambiguation) The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. It may also refer to: Baseball and softball Professional baseball * Triple-A World Series, a contest in Minor League Baseball * Junior World Series, a former championship in ...

Others

* Winter Semester in German Academic Year

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