BW or Bw may stand for:
Businesses and organizations
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Baldwin Wallace University
Baldwin Wallace University (BW) is a private university in Berea, Ohio. It was founded in 1845 as Baldwin Institute by Methodist businessman John Baldwin. The school merged with nearby German Wallace College in 1913 to become Baldwin-Wallace C ...
, formally called Baldwin-Wallace College located in Berea, Ohio
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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
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Best Western
Best Western International, Inc. owns the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it licenses to over 4,700 hotels worldwide. The franchise, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, includes more than 2,000 hotels in North America. ...
, a hospitality company.
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Bolton Wanderers, an English football club
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British Waterways
British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom. It served as the navigation authority for the majority of canals and a number of rivers and docks in England, Scotlan ...
, a body that looks after the majority of inland waterways in the UK
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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)
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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
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BWIA West Indies Airways
BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as "Bee-Wee" and also as British West Indian Airways and BWIA International, was the national airline based in Trinidad and Tobago. At the end of operations, BWIA was the largest airline operating ...
(IATA Airline code BW)
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Caribbean Airlines
Caribbean Airlines Limited is the state-owned airline and flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago. The airline is also the flag carrier of Jamaica and Guyana. Headquartered in Iere House in Piarco, the airline operates flights to the Caribbean, ...
(IATA airline code BW)
Places
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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
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Brabant Wallon ''(Walloon Brabant)'', a province of Belgium
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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)
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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 Kalaha ...
(ISO 2-letter country code)
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.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
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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
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Bandwidth (disambiguation)
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Bargmann–Wigner equations, in quantum field theory
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Biological warfare
Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. ...
, also known as germ warfare, the use of a pathogen or toxin as a weapon of war
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Body weight, in medicine
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Bordet-Wassermann test, a test for syphilis
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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
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b/w ("backed with"), on record singles
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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"
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Pokémon Black and White
and are 2010 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. They are the first installments in the fifth generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. First releas ...
, Pokémon video games released in 2010
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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 ''Pok ...
, sequels to
Pokémon Black and White
and are 2010 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. They are the first installments in the fifth generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. First releas ...
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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.
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Vachirawit Chivaaree
Vachirawit Chivaree ( th, วชิรวิชญ์ ชีวอารี; born 27 December 1997), known professionally as Bright Vachirawit or Bright ( th, ไบร์ท), is a Thai actor, singer, television host, model and entertainer. He i ...
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Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn ( th, เมธวิน โอภาสเอี่ยมขจร; born 21 February 1999), better known by his nickname Win ( th, วิน) is a Thai actor, model, and singer of Chinese descent, who made his debut in 20 ...
See also
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BVV (disambiguation) BVV may refer to:
* IATA code for Burevestnik Airport
* Big Van Vader (1955–2018), American professional wrestler and gridiron football player
* Brno Exhibition Centre, Czech: ''Brněnské výstaviště''
* BVV Barendrecht
BVV Barendrecht i ...
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B&W (disambiguation)
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Black widow (disambiguation)
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