W (disambiguation)

W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the English 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 (2022 film), a Finnish dystopian experimental 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, a studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
• W (Wanessa Camargo album), 2005
• W (Planningtorock album), 2011
• W (Whigfield album), 2012
• "W", a song by Koffee
• W (Boris album), 2022

Broadcasting

• Channel W, a defunct Malaysian television channel
• W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
• W Channel (Australia), an Australian pay television channel
• U&W, formerly W, 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 and businesses

• Der Wienerschnitzel restaurants large brand logo
• Mississippi University for Women, US, nickname "The W"
• W Hotels, a brand of hotels of Marriott International
• W Motors, an UAE based sports car company
• Wayfair (NYSE stock symbol: W)
• Women's National Basketball Association, also nicknamed "The W"
• World Balance, a shoe company
• Big W, an Australian discount department store, and subsidiary of Woolworths Group

Science and technology

• Watt (W), the SI derived unit for power
• Tungsten, symbol W, a chemical element
• 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
• W (tram), a class of electric trams built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board.
• The official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for:
  • Kisei Main Line.
  • San'yō Main Line.

Other uses

• W postcode area, of London
• W National Park, a major national park in West Africa
• 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
• 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
• Internet slang for winning

See also

• °W (disambiguation)
• Win (disambiguation)
• VV (disambiguation)
• UU (disambiguation)
• W. (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with W
• All pages with titles containing W
• W series (disambiguation)