RWA may refer to:
Organizations
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Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK
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Resident welfare association A resident welfare association (frequently abbreviated as RWA) is a Non-governmental organization that represents the interests of the residents of a specific urban or suburban locality, particularly in Indian cities.
Membership
Membership is v ...
, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region
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Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association
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Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Royal West of England Academy, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK
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Royal West Academy, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Science and technology
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Reaction wheel
A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque. They provide a high pointing accuracy, and are particularly useful when the spacecraft must be ...
assembly, in spacecraft control
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Right-wing authoritarianism, a psychological personality variable
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Rotating wave approximation, a mathematical simplification used in atom optics and magnetic resonance
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Routing and wavelength assignment The routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem is an optical networking problem with the goal of maximizing the number of optical connections.
Definition
The general objective of the RWA problem is to maximize the number of established conne ...
, a process in optical network routing
Other uses
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Research Works Act, proposed US law (2011) to prohibit requiring free public access to results of federally funded research
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Risk-weighted asset, a bank risk management variable usually used in the context of Basel II
*RWA, abbreviation for
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
, an east-central African country
*Ryan White Act (
Ryan White CARE Act), US law providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS
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