GW

GW may refer to:

People

• George Washington, the first President of the United States
• George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States
• Leif G. W. Persson, Swedish criminologist and novelist

Structures

• George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River

Education

• An abbreviation for The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Science and technology

• .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
• Gateway (disambiguation)
• GateWorld
• The symbol for a gigawatt, a unit for measuring power, equal to 1.0x10⁹ watts
• Global warming
• Gravitational Wave
• A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for well graded gravels
• GW-BASIC, a dialect of BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft
• The GW approximation in physics calculates the self-energy of a many-body system

Businesses

• Games Workshop, a publicly traded company that makes wargames

Entertainment and media

• Guild Wars, an episodic series of multiplayer online role-playing games
• Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television show, 2005–2010
• Golden Words

News and media

• an abbreviation for Ghost Writer

Other uses

• an abbreviation for the German union catalogue of incunabula, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
• an abbreviation for Golden Week (Japan)
• an abbreviation for Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper.

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