CW

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, in radio communications
• CodeWarrior, an integrated development environment by Metrowerks
• Constructed wetland
• Continuous wave, a method of radio transmission (telegraphy) and a microwave theory
• ClarisWorks, an office suite now known as AppleWorks
• Drag coefficient, a measure of air resistance commonly denoted ${\mathbf {c}}_{\mathrm {w} }\,$
• Contention Window, a network traffic technique

Arts and media

Gaming

• Castle Wolfenstein, a video game
• Cube World, a video game

Publications

• Computerworld, an information technology magazine
• The Crimson White, a student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama

Other media

• The CW, a television network
• Creative writing

Companies

• Cable & Wireless plc, a British telecommunications company
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Curtiss-Wright, an engineering company (NYSE: CW)

Military

• Chemical warfare
• Chemical weapon
• Cold War
• Warrant officer (when followed by a numerical designation of rank)

Places

• CW postcode area around Crewe, England
• Canada West, an obsolete designation for the western part of Canada
• Canada's Wonderland, an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
• Cook Islands (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO designation)
• County Carlow, in Ireland
• Curaçao (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code CW)
• Calw, a city in southern Germany

Other uses

• Air Marshall Islands (IATA code CW)
• Calendar week
• Clockwise
• Common Worship, a liturgy of the Church of England
• Conventional wisdom, a description of ideas that are generally accepted as true
• Cruiserweight (boxing)
• C. W. Anderson, a professional wrestler