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RW or rw may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• The Real World (TV series), an American reality television show
• Road Wild, a World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event
• Robbie Williams, a British pop star
• Robin Williams, an American actor
• Roger Waters, British musician
• Robot Wars (disambiguation)

In mathematics, science and technology

In computing

• Read–write access to files or directories, in file system permissions
• Read–write memory
• Rewritable media
• RenderWare, a 3-D rendering engine produced by Criterion Software

Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology

• Random walk, a mathematical process that can be used to explain phenomena in several disciplines
• Reaction wheel, a type of flywheel used primarily by spacecraft for attitude control
• Robertson–Walker metric, in cosmology
• RW is the designation for the 15th variable star named in a constellation:
  • RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant located in the constellation Cepheus
  • RW Cygni, a red supergiant located in the constellation Cygnus
  • RW Leonis Minoris, a carbon star located in the constellation Leo Minor
  • RW Ursae Minoris, a recurrent nova located in the constellation Ursa Minor
• A right of way may be referred to in civil engineering and drafting contexts as R/W or RW

Other uses

• Racewalking
• Real world, another term for reality in several contexts
  • For other uses of "real world" see Real world (disambiguation)
• Respondent witness, in law
• Right-wing, one of the winger positions in sport
• Right-wing politics
• Rosewood, a type of wood used for guitar fingerboards
• Rukun warga, an administrative division of Indonesia
• Rwanda (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
  • .rw, country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Rwanda
  • Kinyarwanda, a language in Rwanda (ISO 639 alpha-2 code)
• Republic Airlines (IATA airline designator)
• Royal Wings, a Jordanian airline
• Remote work