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CW may stand for:

Science and technology

• Centiwatt (cW), one hundredth of a watt
• Cω, a programming language
• CW complex, a type of topological space
• Carrier wave, a periodic waveform that is modulated in radio communication
• CodeWarrior, an integrated development environment
• Constructed wetland, wastewater treatment landform
• Continuous wave, electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency
• ClarisWorks, a software suite renamed AppleWorks
• $c_{\rm {w}}$, a drag coefficient used a measure of air resistance
• Contention window, a network traffic characteristic; see IEEE 802.11e-2005 § Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)
• Corded Ware culture, archaeological culture in Europe
• Tungsten carbide, alternative chemical formula CW

Arts and media

Gaming

• Castle Wolfenstein
• Cube World
• Content Warning

Publications

• Computerworld
• The Crimson White, University of Alabama student newspaper

Other media

• The CW, American television network/programming service
  • The CW Plus, national feed of the network
  • CW Sports, sports programming division of the network
  • The CW4Kids, American Saturday morning cartoon children's television block
  • The CW Daytime, afternoon programming block that was broadcast on the CW
• Creative writing
• CloverWorks, Japanese animation studio

Companies

• Cable & Wireless plc, British telecommunications company
• Camping World
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Curtiss-Wright, engineering company

Military

• Camp Wallace, United States Army facility
• Chemical warfare
• Chemical weapon
• Chief warrant officer
• Cold War, the state of geopolitical tension following World War II

Places

• Cook Islands, FIPS and superseded NATO code CW
• CW postcode area around Crewe, England
• Canada West, obsolete designation for the western part of Canada
• Canada's Wonderland, amusement park
• County Carlow, Ireland
• Curaçao, a country
  • ISO 3166-2:CW, country code
• Calw, Germany
• Chelmsley Wood, England

Other uses

• Air Marshall Islands, IATA code CW
• Calendar week
• Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, used by the WELS
• Clockwise
• Common Worship, a liturgy of the Church of England
• Conventional wisdom
• Cruiserweight (boxing), weight class
• Content warning
• Culture war, a cultural conflict between social groups
• C. W. Anderson (born 1970), professional wrestler
• .cw, Internet top-level domain
• Cawang railway station, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Cool white (about 4000 degrees Kelvin), a color temperature used for lighting; see Fluorescent-lamp formats