SW

SW, sw and s/w may stand for:

Geography

• Southwest, one of the four ordinal directions
• The FIPS country code for Sweden
• SW postcode area, a group of postcode districts in southwest London, England
• SW, a car registration plate code for Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany

Companies

• Southwestern Company, a publishing company designed for college students
• Sierra Wireless, Inc. (TSX: SW), a wireless communications equipment designer and manufacturer
• Smith & Wesson
• Southern Water, a water company of England
• Southern Winds Airlines, a defunct Argentine airline
• The IATA code for Air Namibia
• Southwest Airlines, an American airline

Military

• Steelworker (US Navy), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
• SW, a designation for U.S. Navy personnel qualified as an Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist

Science, computing and electronics

• Sw., a standard author abbreviation for Olof Swartz author when citing a botanical name
• Semantic Web
• Shareware
• Shortwave
• Software
• Solid Works
• Subwoofer

Sport

• Sand wedge
• Stampede Wrestling
• Santiago Wanderers

Language

• Swahili language ISO 639 alpha-2 code

Other

• Screeching Weasel, a punk rock band
• Band 3, a protein
• Samurai Warriors
• Secret Weapon, a concealed weapon
• Shattered World, a MUD
• Snow White, a story written by the Grimm brothers
• Socialist Worker
• Social worker
• Sport wagon
• Star Wars
• Station wagon, a car body style
• Steven Wilson, a British musician
• the Unified Soil Classification System symbol for well graded sand
• Strike Witches, a Japanese animated series