SW

SW, sw and s/w may stand for:

Arts and media

• Samurai Warriors, a video game
• Screeching Weasel, a punk rock band
• Shattered World, a multiplayer virtual world
• Snow White, a story written by the Grimm brothers
• Socialist Worker, a number of newspapers currently or formerly associated with the International Socialist Tendency
• Star Wars, a science fiction media franchise
• Steven Wilson, an English musician
• Storage Wars, a television show on A&E
• Strike Witches, a Japanese animated series

Companies

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

Geography

• Southwest, one of the four ordinal directions
• Sweden (FIPS country code SW)
• SW postcode area, UK, a group of postcode districts in southwest London, England
• Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany (vehicle plate code SW)
• Swietochlowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (vehicle plate code SW)

Occupations

• Social worker, a professional who facilitates the welfare of communities, individuals, families, and groups
• Steelworker (US Navy), a US Navy occupational rating
• Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

• Software (disambiguation)
• Adobe Shockwave, a multimedia software development platform
• Shortwave radio, radio communications in the 1.6–30 MHz band
• Shortwave radiation, electromagnetic radiation in visible and near visible bands

Other uses in science and technology

• Sport wagon or crossover, an automobile configuration
• Station wagon, a car body style
• Olof Swartz, botanist, abbreviated Sw. in botanical citations
• Band 3, a protein
• A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for well graded sand

Other uses

• Swahili language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "sw")
• Sweeper, a position in association football