GW
# GW

GW may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media

### Gaming

* Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
* Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
* GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)

### Periodicals

* GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
* Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
* Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
* Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
* Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another

## Calendar

* Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays

## Places

* Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
* Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
* George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
* George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
   * George Washington University Hospital

## Science, technology and mathematics

### Physics

* GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
* Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to $10^9$ watts
* Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
   * The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

### Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

* .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
* GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
* Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
* Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see Witt group § Grothendieck-Witt ring
* GW, the human gene MASTL

## People with the initials GW

* George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
* Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
* George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States
