W (disambiguation)

W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet. It can also represent or refer to the following:

Contents 1 Science 1.1 Astronomy 1.2 Biology and chemistry 1.3 Computing 1.4 Mathematics 1.5 Physics 2 Broadcast media 3 General and other uses

Science

Astronomy

• Wolf-Rayet star class
• A November 16 through 30 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet or asteroid

Biology and chemistry

• Haplogroup W (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Tryptophan, an essential amino acid
• Tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram
• W chromosome, in the ZW sex-determination system

Computing

• w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
• W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms

Mathematics

• Lambert's W function

Physics

• Watt, the SI derived unit for power
• Mechanical work
• W boson, a kind of a subatomic particle
• W (Brillouin zone), a corner point of the Brillouin zone of a face-centered cubic lattice

Broadcast media

• W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
• W (call sign), an ITU call sign prefix allocated to the United States, allocated to radio and television broadcast stations east of the Mississippi river
• W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
• W. Channel, an Australian pay television channel

General and other uses

• "w" or "w/", abbreviations for the word "with"
• "W", sometimes spelled out as "Dubya", a nickname of U.S. President George W. Bush
• W (Double You), a Japanese pop music duo
• W (film), a film released in 1974
• W (IPA), a labial-velar approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• W (magazine) is an American fashion magazine.
• W postcode area, a group of postcode districts in central and west London, England
• W Hotels is an international chain of boutique hotels in urban centers.
• West, one of the four cardinal directions
• Wednesday, a day of the week
• Win in individual and team sport statistics
• The "W", nickname of Mississippi University for Women
• Five Ws of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why

Latin letter disambiguation
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