Dow

Dow, or the acronym DOW, may refer to:

People

• Dow (surname)
• Dow Finsterwald (born 1929), American professional golfer

Business

• Dow Chemical Company, a manufacturer of plastics and other chemicals
  • Dow Corning, a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA
• Dow Jones & Company, a financial publisher
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of major stocks
  • Dow Jones–AIG Commodity Index, a commodity price index
• Dow Breweries, a former Quebec brewing company
• Doppler on Wheels, DOW, Doppler On Wheels mobile radar facility used in tornado, hurricane and other weather research

Academia

• Dow University of Health Sciences, formerly Dow Medical College, in Pakistan

Places

• Dow, California, in Kern County
• Dow, Kentucky

Indigenous peoples

• Dow people, an Indian tribe in Brazil, from the Maku family

Fiction

• Dow, a character in the Fusion comics series

Science

• Dow process, the electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine

Acronym

• Day of week, an abbreviation often used in date formats
• Declaration of war, a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another
• Deep ocean water, a marine term
• Died of wounds, a military casualty classification
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a strategy video game
• Doppler On Wheels, an experimental portable Doppler radar device used for meteorological research
• United States Department of War, an extinct department now part of the United States Department of Defense
• Days of Wonder, a board games company

See also

• Dhow, a traditional Arab sailing ship
• Dowe (disambiguation)