BW or Bw may stand for:

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Businesses and organizations

  • Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio, US
  • Bergesen Worldwide, a shipping company
  • Best Western, a hotel company
  • British Waterways
  • Brush Engineered Materials (NYSE stock symbol BW)
  • Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany
  • Former BWIA West Indies Airways (IATA Airline code BW)
  • Caribbean Airlines (IATA airline code BW)

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Places

  • Baden-Württemberg, a federal state of Germany
  • Bangladesh, WMO country code
  • Botswana (ISO 2-letter country code)
  • .bw, Internet Top Level Domain, Botswana

In science, technology, and mathematics

  • Bahnbetriebswerk, locomotive depot in German
  • Bandwidth (disambiguation), abbreviation
  • Bargmann–Wigner equations, in quantum field theory
  • SAP Business Information Warehouse or SAP BW, software
  • Body weight, e.g. when calculating dosage
  • Brauer-Wall group, a super-graded version of the Brauer group in mathematics

Other uses

  • b/w ("backed with"), on record singles
  • Burgerlijk Wetboek, Netherlands civil code
  • Rosemary Lyons, "Beautiful Wife" of Earl Wilson
  • StarCraft: Brood War, initials for the StarCraft expansion
  • Brisk walk is commonly abbreviated as "BW" in casual writings especially in social media, amongst health and fitness enthusiasts
  • Pokémon Black and White, two of the main games from the 5th generation of Pokémon (video game series)

See also

  • BVV (disambiguation)
  • B&W (disambiguation)