W (disambiguation)

W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

W may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Books and magazines

W (magazine), an American fashion magazine
W, or the Memory of Childhood, a 1975 novel by Georges Perec
W Publishing, formerly Word Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
"W" Is for Wasted, the twenty-third novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2013

Film and television

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
W (TV series), a 2016 South Korean television series
Kamen Rider W, a 2009–10 Japanese tokusatsu drama
W, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Music

Wumpscut, an electro-industrial music project sometimes referred to as :w:
W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
The W, the third studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
W (Wanessa Camargo album), 2005
W (Planningtorock album), 2011
W (Whigfield album), 2012

Broadcasting

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
W, the initial call sign letter for most U.S. radio and television stations east of the Mississippi River

Organizations

Wayfair (NYSE stock symbol: W)
Mississippi University for Women, US, nickname "The W"

Science and technology

Watt (W), the SI derived unit for power
Tungsten (chemical symbol W), after its German name, Wolfram
W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
Work (physics) (symbol: W), in physics
Tryptophan (single letter abbreviation: W), an amino acid
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
Wurtzite crystal structure (prefix w-)
Weight (W)
W state a type of quantum entanglement

Computing

w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
Algorithm W, or the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm

Transportation

W (Los Angeles Railway), a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1956
W (New York City Subway service), a New York City Subway service

Other uses

W postcode area, of London
Five Ws, of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
West, one of the four cardinal directions
Voiced labial-velar approximant [w], in the International Phonetic Alphabet
W Hotel, one of the hotels in the Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide chain
George W. Bush (born 1946), 43rd President of the United States, nickname "W"
Whiskey, the military time zone code for UTC−10:00
The W emblem on Wario's hat and gloves

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