W (disambiguation)
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W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.
W may also refer to:
Broadcast media
- W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
- 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
- The initial call sign letter for most U.S. radio and television stations east of the Mississippi River
Science and computing
- Watt, the SI derived unit for power
- W, chemical symbol for Tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram
- W, symbol for mechanical work in physics
- W, single letter abbreviation for the amino acid Tryptophan
- w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
- W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
- 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
- The prefix w- denoting the wurtzite crystal structure
- Algorithm W, also known as the Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm
- Weight
Other uses
- W (Los Angeles Railway), a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1956
- W (New York City Subway service), a former New York City Subway service
- W postcode area of London
- Five Ws of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
- West, one of the four cardinal directions
- W, a voiced labial-velar approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- "The W", nickname of Mississippi University for Women
- W Hotel, one of the hotels in the Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide chain
- "W", nickname for George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States
- W, in sports, is shorthand for win
- W, the NYSE stock symbol for Wayfair
Film and TV
- 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
Books and magazines
- W (magazine) is an American fashion magazine
- W, or the Memory of Childhood, 1975 novel by Georges Perec
Music
- W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
- The W, the third studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
- Kamen Rider W, an alternate name of the second 2009 Japanese Tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Double
- W (Wanessa album), 2005
- W (Planningtorock album), 2011
- :wumpscut:, a electro-industrial music project, commonly referred as :w:
See also
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