W (disambiguation)

W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

W may also refer to:

Broadcast media

• W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
• W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
• W Channel (Australia), an Australian pay television channel
• The initial call sign letter for most U.S. radio and television stations east of the Mississippi River

Science and computing

• Watt, the SI derived unit for power
• W, chemical symbol for Tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram
• W, symbol for mechanical work in physics
• W, single letter abbreviation for the amino acid Tryptophan
• w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
• W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
• 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
• The prefix w- denoting the wurtzite crystal structure
• Algorithm W, also known as the Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm
• Weight

Other uses

• W (Los Angeles Railway), a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1956
• W (New York City Subway service), a former New York City Subway service
• W postcode area of London
• Five Ws of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
• West, one of the four cardinal directions
• W, a voiced labial-velar approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• "The W", nickname of Mississippi University for Women
• W Hotel, one of the hotels in the Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide chain
• "W", nickname for George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States
• W, in sports, is shorthand for win

Film and TV

• W (1974 film), a suspense American film
• W (2014 film), a thriller Hindi language film
• W. (film), a 2008 film about United States President George W. Bush by Oliver Stone

Books and magazines

• W (magazine) is an American fashion magazine
• W, or the Memory of Childhood, 1975 novel by Georges Perec

Music

• W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
• The W, the third studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
• Kamen Rider W, an alternate name of the second 2009 Japanese Tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Double
• W (Wanessa album), 2005
• W (Planningtorock album), 2011
• :wumpscut:, a electro-industrial music project, commonly referred as :w:

See also

• VV (disambiguation)
• UU (disambiguation)