GW

GW may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

• Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
• Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
• GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)

Periodicals

• GateWorld
  , a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
• Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
• Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
• Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another

Calendar

• Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays

Places

• Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
• Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
• George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
• George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
  • George Washington University Hospital

Science, technology and mathematics

Physics

• GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
• Gigawatt
  (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 10⁹ watts
• Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
  • The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

• Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as Fantasy football (association)
• .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
• GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
• Global warming
  , the ongoing climatic event
• Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see Witt group § Grothendieck-Witt ring
• GW, the human gene MASTL

People with the initials GW

• George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
• Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
• George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States

See also

• Gateway (disambiguation)
• George Washington (disambiguation)
• Ghostwriter (disambiguation)
• Goo (disambiguation)
• GU (disambiguation)

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