A saw is a cutting tool.

Saw or SAW may also refer to:

Places

  • Saw Kill (disambiguation), three streams in the U.S. state of New York
  • Saw Township, a township in Myanmar (Burma)
  • Saw, Burma, a town in the above township

People

  • "Saw Lady", stage name of Natalia Paruz
  • U Saw (1900–1948), Burmese Prime Minister
  • Samael Aun Weor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films and associated media

  • Saw (franchise), a horror franchise
  • Saw (film), a 2004 American independent horror film directed by James Wan
  • Saw (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 2004 film
  • Saw (video game), a 2009 video game based on the film series
  • Saw: Rebirth, a one-shot comic published by IDW
  • Saw – The Ride, a roller coaster, based on the movie series, at Thorpe Park, England

Music

Instruments and devices

  • Saw, a Thai family of musical instruments, including:
  • Saw duang
  • Saw sam sai
  • Saw u
  • Musical saw, a regular cutting saw used to produce musical sounds

Groups and labels

  • Saw Recordings, a record label
  • Stock Aitken Waterman, a British music producing trio

Albums

  • Selected Ambient Works 85–92, 1992 debut album by Richard D. James under the pseudonym Aphex Twin
  • Selected Ambient Works Volume II, 1994

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • SAWStudio (Software Audio Workshop), a digital audio workstation
  • Self-avoiding walk, a mathematical sequence
  • Submerged arc welding
  • Surface acoustic wave
  • SAW filter, a type of electronic filter

Weapons

  • Squad automatic weapon, or section automatic weapon, light machine gun
  • M249 light machine gun, formerly M249 SAW

Transportation

  • SAW, IATA airport code for Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
  • SAW, MTR station code for San Wai stop
  • SAW, National Rail station code for Sawbridgeworth railway station
  • Cham Wings Airlines, a Syrian airline (ICAO designator SAW)

Other uses

  • Saw (saying), an old proverb or maxim
  • Peace be upon him (Islam), (SAW), an honorific suffix for Muhammad
  • Second Automobile Works, of China
  • Saw, a character from the fourth season of Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series

See also

  • Sau (disambiguation)
  • SAWS (disambiguation)
  • Sawtooth (disambiguation)
  • See (disambiguation)
  • Seeing (disambiguation)
  • SSAW (disambiguation)
  • SSAWS