W (disambiguation)
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W is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet. It can also refer to:
- In astronomy,
- W stands for the Wolf-Rayet class of stars.
- W stands for a November 16 through 30 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet (e.g. C/1984 W2, Comet Hartley) or asteroid (e.g. (4035) 1986 WD).
- In biochemistry,
- W is the symbol for tryptophan.
- Haplogroup W (mtDNA) is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
- In calendars, W is often an abbreviation for Wednesday.
- In chemistry, W is the symbol for tungsten, after its German name, Wolfram.
- In computing,
- w is the only one-letter Unix command.
- W is the name of a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms; see W Window System.
- In genetics, W denotes the W chromosome.
- In population genetics, w is the symbol for fitness.
- In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [w] represents a labial-velar approximant.
- In Italy, W (which does not appear in the Italian alphabet) stands for Viva ("long live").
- In France, W (which is not used in native French words) is sometimes used in abbreviations to indicate "British", such as British units in the order of battle on French soil in WWII; similarly, a variant of the Citroën DS made in Slough, England was called the DW.
- In Japan, W is commonly used in slang and advertising to represent the English loanword "double". There is also a J-Pop act called W (Double You). In Japanese internet slang, "w" is used to represent laughter, in the same way as "LOL". In this meaning, w is short for "warai", which means "laughter".
- In journalism, the Five Ws are who, what, when, where and why.
- In mathematics, W is most commonly used to represent Lambert's W function.
- In physics,
- W is the symbol for the watt, the SI derived unit for power.
- W is often the variable for energy or work, measured in joules.
- W is a kind of a subatomic particle, the W boson.
- W is the number of states a particle can occupy in a system.
- W is a corner point of the Brillouin zone of a face-centered cubic lattice.
- In politics, W is a nickname of American President George W. Bush, sometimes spelled out as "Dubya" (the President's name is sometimes written "George Double-U Bush"). "W" is used by Bush himself, on campaign signs, and by many of his supporters. Dubya is generally used by opponents of Bush, or by those making fun of him.
- As the first letter of a postal code,
- In the United Kingdom, W stands for West London.
- In radio,
- The W band ranges from 75 to 111 GHz.
- W is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to the United States. W is generally used as the first letter of callsigns allocated to broadcast television or radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
- In sports, W is used in player and team statatics to mean to "win(s)."
- In television,
- In the Champaign-Decatur-Springfield TV Market (DMA 82)(see Media market), a W is inserted over the picture in an upper corner when the National Weather Service issues a weather watch or warning, etc (see Severe weather terminology#Watches.2C Warnings and Advisories as defined by the NWS.
- W Network is a Canadian cable television specialty channel.
- In weather forecasting, geography, and weather vanes, W stands for west, one of the four cardinal directions.
- w or w/ is an abbreviation for the word "with".
- Sometimes, W is substituted for or confused with the lowercase Greek letter omega.
- W is used to refer to the color White in the card game, Magic: The Gathering.
- The "W" is the nickname of Mississippi University for Women.
- W is an American fashion magazine.
- W Hotels is an international chain of boutique hotels in urban centers.
- W is the name of a film released in 1973.
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