W (disambiguation)

W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet.

W may also refer to:

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. (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
 * W (British TV channel), 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

 * 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:
 * JRW kinki-W.svg Kisei Main Line.
 * JRW oka-W.svg 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