PW
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PW or pw may refer to:
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Airlines:
- Precision AirPrecision AirPrecision Air Services Limited, operating as Precision Air, is the largest airline in Tanzania, based in Dar Es Salaam.-Overview:The airline operates scheduled air services for tourists and business traffic between Dar Es Salaam and Fourteen other airports in Tanzania...
, a Tanzanian airline currently using the IATA code PW - German WingsGerman WingsGerman Wings was a scheduled German airline which operated for a few years in the late 1980s. This airline is not to be confused with the current Germanwings operating since 1997, mainly with Airbus A319 aircraft .-Code data:...
, a German airline using IATA code PW from 1989 — 1990 - Pacific Western AirlinesPacific Western AirlinesPacific Western Airlines was an airline that operated scheduled flights throughout western Canada and charter services around the world from the 1950s through the 1980s...
, an airline that merged into Canadian Airlines International; used IATA code PW from 1946 — 1987
Other Companies and Organizations:
- Pacific Western Transportation (PW) or (PWT), a bus company based out of Toronto, with its headquarters in Calgary
- Piggly WigglyPiggly WigglyPiggly Wiggly is a supermarket chain operating in the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States, run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. The current company headquarters is in Keene, New Hampshire....
, an American supermarket chain - Pratt & WhitneyPratt & WhitneyPratt & Whitney is a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation . Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA...
, an aircraft engine manufacturer - PricewaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms....
, an international accounting and business consulting firm - Production WorkshopProduction Workshop (Brown University)Production Workshop is an entirely student-run theater at Brown University. Founded in 1960, it is one of the oldest student-run theaters in the United States. It puts up 7 full-scale productions each year in its main black box theatre...
, a student-run theater group at Brown University - Providence and Worcester RailroadProvidence and Worcester RailroadThe Providence and Worcester Railroad is a Class II railroad in the United States. The railroad connects from Gardner in central Massachusetts, south through its namesake cities of Worcester and Providence, Rhode Island, and west from Rhode Island through Connecticut and into New York City...
Entertainment:
- Pennywise (band)Pennywise (band)Pennywise is a Californian punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title....
, an American punk band - Perfect WorldPerfect WorldPerfect World , is a 3D adventure and fantasy MMORPG with traditional Chinese settings. Players can take on various roles depending on choice of race and choice of class within that race....
, a 3D MMORPG game developed by Beijing Perfect World - Persistent worldPersistent worldA persistent world is a virtual world that continues to exist even after a user exits the world and that user-made changes to its state are, to some extent, permanent...
, a term used in online role-playing games - Peter WigginPeter WigginPeter Wiggin is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, written by Orson Scott Card. He has appeared in the novels Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind and in an upcoming short story to...
, a character in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card - Philadelphia WeeklyPhiladelphia WeeklyPhiladelphia Weekly , is an award-winning alternative newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published every Wednesday.The paper was founded in 1971 as a sister publication to the South Philadelphia Press. In 1995, the paper became Philadelphia Weekly...
, a tabloid newspaper - Phoenix Wright can both refer to :
- Phoenix Wright: Ace AttorneyPhoenix Wright: Ace AttorneyPhoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released in Japan as , is an adventure video game published and developed by Capcom in Japan, North America, and Europe, and published by Nintendo in Australia...
, a game - Phoenix Wright (character)Phoenix Wright (character)Phoenix Wright, known as in original Japanese language versions, is a fictional defense attorney in Capcom's Ace Attorney video game series. As of , the series has sold 3 million copies and is Capcom's 11th best-selling series of all time. Phoenix has been featured as the main protagonist in three...
, a character
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Pee WeePee Wee (entertainer)Irvin Salinas Mártinez better known as Pee Wee, is a Mexican American singer and actor. He is a former singer for the band Kumbia Kings and was a lead singer for Kumbia All Starz, both created by A.B. Quintanilla. In early 2008 he left Kumbia All Starz to become a solo artist...
, Mexican American singer and actor
Mathematics and Science:
- Petawatt, a unit of power
- PennyweightPennyweightA pennyweight is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, 1/20 of a troy ounce, 1/240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams....
(PW) or (PWT), a small unit of mass - Picowatt, a unit used for measuring noise levels, commonly abbreviated pW
Media:
- Pauly-WissowaPauly-WissowaThe Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, commonly called the Pauly–Wissowa or simply RE, is a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship. With its supplements it comprises over eighty volumes....
, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship - Publishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
, a magazine covering the book publishing industry
Places:
- PalauPalauPalau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and south of Tokyo. In 1978, after three decades as being part of the United Nations trusteeship, Palau chose independence instead of becoming part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a...
, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean; Palau's postal abbreviation is PW- .pw.pw.pw is the country code top-level domain of the island country of Palau. Its namespace is exclusively licensed to and is intended to host 2nd level domain names that provide a host of services to end consumers.- Usage :...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Palau
- .pw
- Puerto WilliamsPuerto WilliamsPuerto Williams is a Chilean port, located on Isla Navarino facing the Beagle Channel. It is the capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province, one of four provinces located in the Magellan and Chilean Antartica Region...
, a port on Tierra del Fuego
Schools:
- Prince of Wales Secondary SchoolPrince of Wales Secondary SchoolPrince of Wales Secondary School is a public secondary school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-History:Prince of Wales opened for classes in September 1920 at its original site, which is now Shaughnessy Elementary School. It has been at its current location since 1960. Its current...
in Vancouver, BC - Politechnika WarszawskaWarsaw University of TechnologyThe 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 . The student body numbers 36,156 , mostly full-time. There are 17 faculties covering almost all fields of...
, the Warsaw University of Technology, in Poland
Sports:
- Professional WrestlingProfessional wrestlingProfessional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
Technology:
- Pseudo-wirePseudo-wireIn computer networking and telecommunications, a pseudowire is an emulation of a point-to-point connection over a packet-switching network ....
, an emulation of a native service over a Packet Switched Network - An abbreviation for "Pulse Width" in electronics. See also Pulse-width modulationPulse-width modulationPulse-width modulation , or pulse-duration modulation , is a commonly used technique for controlling power to inertial electrical devices, made practical by modern electronic power switches....
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Other Uses:
- PolicewomanPolice officerA police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...
, a female police officer - Potable waterDrinking waterDrinking water or potable water is water pure enough to be consumed or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry is all of drinking water standard, even though only a very small proportion is actually...
, a rating on pipes and fittings, meaning that they can be used for potable water and are pressure rated - Pieter Willem BothaPieter Willem BothaPieter Willem Botha , commonly known as "P. W." and Die Groot Krokodil , was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was for eleven years head of the Afrikaner National Party and the...
, a President of South Africa from 1984–1989 - Paul Wilson (musician)Paul Wilson (musician)Paul "Pablo" Wilson is a Scottish musician, who is best known as the bass guitarist for Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He previously played guitar in Glasgow band Terra Diablo from 2000–2005. In March 2005, he replaced bassist Mark McClelland in Snow Patrol and switched...
, a bass guitarist for Snow Patrol - Power windowPower windowPower windows or electric windows as well as electric or power window lifts are automobile windows which can be raised and lowered by depressing a button or switch, as opposed to using a hand-turned crank handle.- History :Packard introduced the first power windows in the 1940 Packard...
, an automobile window which is raised and lowered by a switch - Prader-Willi SyndromePrader-Willi syndromePrader–Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder in which seven genes on chromosome 15 are deleted or unexpressed on the paternal chromosome...
, a genetic disorder - Prisoner of warPrisoner of warA prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
, a soldier who is imprisoned by an enemy (also "POW") - Protest WarriorProtest WarriorProtest Warrior was a conservative political activist group. It was formed in 2003 by Alan Lipton and Kfir Alfia in Austin, Texas. The group is primarily known for organizing counter-protests in favor of the Iraq war...
, a movement of college students, counter-protesting anti-war activists - An abbreviation for passwordPasswordA password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource . The password should be kept secret from those not allowed access....
- An abbreviation for Platform Wars, a type of tournament in Star Wars: BattlefrontStar Wars: BattlefrontStar Wars: Battlefront is a first and third-person video game based on battles in the Star Wars film series. It was developed by Pandemic Studios and LucasArts and released on September 20, 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, the same day as the release of the Star Wars...
- Pathetic Writer, a Word processor in Siag OfficeSiag OfficeSiag Office is a tightly integrated, free software office package for Unix-like operating systems. It consists of the spreadsheet SIAG , the word processor Pathetic Writer , the animation program Egon Animator, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu...
- Profit warningProfit warningProfit warning is a warning declaration issued by a listed company to investors through a stock exchange. It warns that the profit of the company in the coming quarter will obviously decline or even have a loss compared with that of the same quarter of previous year...
, a financial warning about lower profits