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GW may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]Gaming
[edit]- Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
- Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
- GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)
Periodicals
[edit]- GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
- Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
- Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
- Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
- Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another
Calendar
[edit]- Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays
Places
[edit]- Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
- Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
- George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
- George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Science, technology and mathematics
[edit]Physics
[edit]- GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
- Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 109 watts
- Gravitational waves, 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
[edit]- Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as Fantasy football (association)
- .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
- GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
- Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
- Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see Witt group § Grothendieck-Witt ring
- GW, the human gene MASTL
People with the initials GW
[edit]- George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
- Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
- George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States