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W (disambiguation)

W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

W may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and magazines

  • 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

  • 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

  • Wumpscut, an electro-industrial music project sometimes referred to as :w:
  • W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
  • The W, the third 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

Broadcasting

  • W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
  • W Channel (Australia), an Australian pay television channel
  • W (UK TV channel), 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

  • Wayfair (NYSE stock symbol: W)
  • Mississippi University for Women, US, nickname "The W"
  • World Balance, a shoe company
  • W Hotels, a brand of hotels of Marriott International

Science and technology

  • Watt (W), the SI derived unit for power
  • Tungsten (chemical symbol W), an 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

  • 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

  • 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.

Other uses

See also

  • Win (disambiguation)
  • VV (disambiguation)
  • UU (disambiguation)
  • W. (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with W
  • All pages with titles containing W
  • W series (disambiguation)
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