W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet.
W may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
editBooks and magazines
edit- W (magazine), an American fashion magazine
- W, or the Memory of Childhood, a 1975 novel by Georges Perec
- W Publishing, formerly Word Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
- "W" Is for Wasted, the twenty-third novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2013
Film and television
edit- W (1974 film), a suspense American film
- W (2014 film), a thriller Hindi language film
- W. (film), a 2008 film about United States President George W. Bush by Oliver Stone
- W (TV series), a 2016 South Korean television series
- Kamen Rider W, a 2009–10 Japanese tokusatsu drama
- W, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Music
edit- Wumpscut, an electro-industrial music project sometimes referred to as :w:
- W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
- The W, a studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
- W (Wanessa Camargo album), 2005
- W (Planningtorock album), 2011
- W (Whigfield album), 2012
- "W", a song by Koffee
- W (Boris album), 2022
Broadcasting
edit- Channel W, a defunct Malaysian television channel
- W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
- W Channel (Australia), an Australian pay television channel
- U&W, formerly W, a UK and Ireland general entertainment channel
- W, the initial call sign letter for most U.S. radio and television stations east of the Mississippi River
Organizations and businesses
edit- Mississippi University for Women, US, nickname "The W"
- W Hotels, a brand of hotels of Marriott International
- W Motors, an UAE based sports car company
- Wayfair (NYSE stock symbol: W)
- Women's National Basketball Association, also nicknamed "The W"
- World Balance, a shoe company
- Big W, an Australian discount department store, and subsidiary of Woolworths Group
Science and technology
edit- Watt (W), the SI derived unit for power
- Tungsten, symbol W, a chemical element
- W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
- Work (physics) (symbol: W), in physics
- Tryptophan (single-letter abbreviation: W), an amino acid
- Haplogroup W (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
- Lambert W function, a set of functions where w is any complex number
- Weierstrass function, a real function continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere
- W and Z bosons, subatomic particles
- Wurtzite crystal structure (prefix w-)
- Weight (W)
- W state a type of quantum entanglement
Computing
edit- w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
- W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
- Algorithm W, or the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm
Transportation
edit- W (Los Angeles Railway), a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1956
- W (New York City Subway service), a New York City Subway service
- W (tram), a class of electric trams built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board.
- The official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for:
Other uses
edit- W postcode area, of London
- W National Park, a major national park in West Africa
- Five Ws, of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
- West, one of the four cardinal directions
- Voiced labial-velar approximant [w], in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- George W. Bush (born 1946), 43rd President of the United States, nickname "W"
- Whiskey, the military time zone code for UTC−10:00
- The W emblem on Wario's hat and gloves
- Internet slang for winning
See also
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