A&W, AW, Aw, aW or aw may refer to:

Companies

A&W Restaurants A&W Restaurants is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its Hamburger, burgers, draft root beer and root beer floats. Being the oldest restaurant chain in America, A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W. Allen set up a r ...

A&W Root Beer A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen – A&W root beer's official history and primarily available in the United States and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&W ...

Addison-Wesley Addison-Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson PLC, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributes its technical titles throu ...

, publishers * Africa World Airlines, IATA code * Prefix for helicopters made by

AgustaWestland AgustaWestland was an Anglo-Italian helicopter design and manufacturing company, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica (now known as Leonardo). It was formed in July 2000 as an Anglo-Italian multinational company, when Finmeccani ...

* Allied Waste Industries, Inc, stock symbol on NYSE *

Armstrong Whitworth Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. With headquarters in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth built armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles and ...

, a British manufacturing company

Media and entertainment

* '' Accel World'', a Japanese light novel series * ''

Active Worlds Active Worlds is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe, and explore 3D virtual wo ...

'', a 3D virtual reality platform * ''Another World'' (TV series), an American soap opera * ''

Aviation Week ''Aviation Week & Space Technology'', often abbreviated ''Aviation Week'' or ''AW&ST'', is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviatio ...

'', magazine

People

* A. H. Weiler (1908 – 2002), ''The New York Times'' film critic whose early reviews were signed with his initials A. W. *

A. W. (poet) The anonymous poet A.W. is responsible for the long poem "Complaint", printed in '' A Poetical Rapsody'', a volume issued in 1602 by two brothers, Francis and Walter Davison. In the ''Rapsody'' the poem is ascribed to Francis Davison, but in Daviso ...

, anonymous 16th century poet * Abraham Washington (A. W.), American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator * Alan Walker (born 1997), English-Norwegian music producer and DJ *

Aw (father) Aw (sometimes spelled ''Au'') is an honorific title in the Harari and Somali languages. It is used widely and most commonly in the Somali territories. During his research in the ancient town of Amud, the historian G.W.B. Huntingford noticed that ...

, honorific title in the Harari and Somali languages *

Aw (surname) Ou is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames and , which share a common origin with the compound surname Ouyang (), from the ruling family of the State of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period. They are commonly romanized as Au or Ao ...

, a Cantonese surname *

John-Allison Weiss John-Allison Weiss (born April 13, 1987) is a Los Angeles-based indie pop singer, songwriter, and performer. To date, they have released three full-length albums and several EPs. Their most recent LP, ''New Love'', was released on October 2, 201 ...

, an American singer-songwriter formerly known as A. W.

Places

Ahrweiler (district) Ahrweiler () is a district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Euskirchen, Rhein-Sieg and the city of Bonn in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the districts of N ...

, Germany, vehicle registration code * Aruba (ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code AW)

Science and technology

.aw .aw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol sui ...

, the internet top level domain country code for Aruba *

Airwatt Airwatt or air watt is a measurement unit of the effectiveness of vacuum cleaners which refers to airflow and the amount of power (watts) a vacuum cleaner produces and uses. It can also be referred to as a measurement of the energy per unit time of ...

, a unit of the effectiveness of vacuum cleaners * Aw, categorization for

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...

in the Köppen classification system * AW, in German email subject line, equivalent to Re: * aw, or

attowatt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James W ...

, an SI unit of power * a_w, or

water activity Water activity (''aw'') is the partial vapor pressure of water in a solution divided by the standard state partial vapor pressure of water. In the field of food science, the standard state is most often defined as pure water at the same tempe ...

, the relative availability of water in a substance

Other uses

* '' Agencja Wywiadu'', the Polish foreign intelligence service *

Ahnapee and Western Railway The Ahnapee and Western Railway (A&W) was a common carrier short line railroad located in northeastern Wisconsin. The railroad ran from a connection with the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad at Casco Junction to the lakeshore terminals ...

, A&W * Arctic Warfare, a sniper rifle *

Aviation Warfare Systems Operator Aviation Warfare Operator is an enlisted rating of the U.S. Navy. It was previously designated as aviation anti-submarine warfare operator. However, under the CNO-directed "Helicopter Master Plan", all 78XX and 94XX aircrewmen were re-designated ...

, a rating in the United States Navy * Aw, a digraph in Latin-script * AW, US Navy

hull classification symbol The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...