BW or Bw may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

* Baldwin Wallace University, formally called Baldwin-Wallace College located in Berea, Ohio *

Bergesen Worldwide BW Group is a maritime company involved in shipping, floating gas infrastructure and deep-water oil & gas production. The company has over 350 vessels managed by an international team of over 7000 staff worldwide. The group was founded by Sir Yu ...

, a shipping company * Best Western, a hospitality company. *

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

, an English football club * British Waterways, a body that looks after the majority of inland waterways in the UK *

Brush Engineered Materials Materion Corp. is a multinational company specializing in high-performance engineered materials. Among their products are precious and non-precious metals, inorganic chemicals, specialty coatings, beryllium, specialty engineered beryllium, beryll ...

(NYSE stock symbol BW) *

Bundeswehr The ''Bundeswehr'' (, meaning literally: ''Federal Defence'') is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ''Bundeswehr'' is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part con ...

, the armed forces of modern Germany * BWIA West Indies Airways (IATA Airline code BW) * Caribbean Airlines (IATA airline code BW)

Places

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, a federal state of Germany * Brabant Wallon ''(Walloon Brabant)'', a province of Belgium *

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

(World Meteorological Organization country code) *

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

(ISO 2-letter country code) **

.bw .bw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code ...

, the country-code Top Level Domain for Botswana

In science and technology

Bahnbetriebswerk A ''Bahnbetriebswerk'' is the equivalent of a locomotive depot (or motive power depot) on the German and Austrian railways. It is an installation that carries out the maintenance, minor repairs, refuelling and cleaning of locomotives and other ...

, a type of German locomotive depot *

Bandwidth (disambiguation) Bandwidth commonly refers to: * Bandwidth (signal processing) or ''analog bandwidth'', ''frequency bandwidth'', or ''radio bandwidth'', a measure of the width of a frequency range * Bandwidth (computing), the rate of data transfer, bit rate or thr ...

Bargmann–Wigner equations :''This article uses the Einstein summation convention for tensor/spinor indices, and uses hats for quantum operators. In relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the Bargmann–Wigner equations describe free particles with non ...

, in quantum field theory * Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, the use of a pathogen or toxin as a weapon of war *

Body weight Human body weight is a person's mass or weight. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of weight without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessor ...

, in medicine *

Bordet-Wassermann test The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement fixation. It was the first blood test for syphilis and the first in the nontreponema ...

, a test for syphilis *

SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) is SAP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse product. It can transform and consolidate business information from virtually any source system. It ran on industry standard RDBMS until version 7.3 at which point it began to t ...

(SAP BW), a data warehouse software application by SAP

Other uses

* b/w ("backed with"), on record singles *

Burgerlijk Wetboek The ''Burgerlijk Wetboek'' (or BW) is the Civil Code of the Netherlands. Early versions were largely based on the Napoleonic Code. The Dutch Civil Code was substantively reformed in 1992. The Code deals with the rights of natural persons (Book 1) ...

, the civil legal code of the Netherlands * Rosemary Lyons, wife of newspaper columnist Earl Wilson, referred to as B.W. for "Beautiful Wife" * Pokémon Black and White, Pokémon video games released in 2010 **

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 and are 2012 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. Part of the fifth generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series, the games are direct sequels to ''Pokémo ...

, sequels to Pokémon Black and White ** List of Pokémon: Black & White episodes, season 14 of the

Pokémon anime (an abbreviation for in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, the owners of the trademark and copyright of the franchise. In terms of what each of thos ...

based on the video games * Bright and Win acted in 2gether: The series and rose to fame together. All over the world they are addressed as BW. **Vachirawit Chivaaree **Metawin Opas-iamkajorn

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