RW or rw may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
*
''The Real World'' (TV series), an American reality television show
* ''
Road Wild
Road Wild (originally known as Hog Wild) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that was held in the month of August from 1996 to 1999. It was a free event held in Sturgis, South Dakot ...
'', a World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event
*
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...
, a British pop star
*
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and come ...
, an American actor
*
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-so ...
, British musician
*
Robot Wars (disambiguation) Robot Wars may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Robot Wars'' (film), 1993
** ''Robot Wars'' (soundtrack)
* ''Robot Wars'' (TV series), a British TV competition, 1998–2004 and 2016–2018
** ''Nickelodeon Robot Wars'', a U.S. TV game show s ...
In mathematics, science and technology
In computing
* Read-write access to files or directories, in
file system permissions
Most file systems include attributes of files and directories that control the ability of users to read, change, navigate, and execute the contents of the file system. In some cases, menu options or functions may be made visible or hidden depending ...
*
Read-write memory
*
Rewritable media
Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers.
The central processing unit (CPU) of a compute ...
*
RenderWare
RenderWare is a video game engine developed by British game developer Criterion Software.
Overview
Released in 1993, RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in video games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RenderWare was ...
, a 3-D rendering engine produced by Criterion Software
Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology
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Random walk
In mathematics, a random walk is a random process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space.
An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer number line \mathbb Z ...
, a mathematical process that can be used to explain phenomena in several disciplines
*
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 ...
, a type of flywheel used primarily by spacecraft for attitude control
*
Robertson–Walker metric, in cosmology
*
Robin Wight
Robin Wight CVO CBE was president of The Engine Group ('Engine') from 2008-2019. He was a co-founder of the advertising agency WCRS, which he set up in 1979 and which merged to become Engine Creative in 2020. He also established the Ideas Found ...
, botanist, noted as R.W.
* RW is the
designation
Designation may refer to:
* Designation (law), the process of determining an incumbent's successor
* Professional certification
* Designation (landmarks), an official classification determined by a government agency or historical society
* Designa ...
for the 15th variable star named in a constellation:
**
RW Andromedae, a Mira variable located in the constellation Andromeda
**
RW Cephei
RW Cephei is a hypergiant variable star in the constellation Cepheus (constellation), Cepheus, at the edge of the Sharpless 132 HII region and close to the small open cluster Berkeley 94. One of the List of largest known stars, largest ...
, an orange hypergiant located in the constellation Cepheus
**
RW Cygni
RW Cygni is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Cygnus, about a degree east of 2nd magnitude γ Cygni. Its apparent magnitude varies between 8.05 and 9.70 and its spectral type between M3 and M4.
Distance
The Gaia Data Rel ...
, a red supergiant located in the constellation Cygnus
**
RW Ursae Minoris, a recurrent nova located in the constellation Ursa Minor
*
Right of way
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another.
A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...
may be referred to in civil engineering and drafting contexts as R/W or RW
Other uses
*
Racewalking
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Referee, Race judges careful ...
* Real world, another term for
reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, r ...
in several contexts
** For other uses of "real world" see
Real world (disambiguation)
Real World or The Real World may also refer to:
* Real life, a phrase to distinguish between the real world and fictional, virtual or idealized worlds
Television
* ''The Real World'' (TV series), 1992–2017
* "The Real World" (''Stargate Atla ...
*
Respondent
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A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a communication made by another. The term is used in legal contexts, in survey methodology, and in psychological conditioning.
Legal usage
In ...
witness, in law
* Right-wing, one of the
winger positions in sport
*
Right-wing politics
Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, author ...
*
Rosewood
Rosewood refers to any of a number of richly hued timbers, often brownish with darker veining, but found in many different hues.
True rosewoods
All genuine rosewoods belong to the genus ''Dalbergia''. The pre-eminent rosewood appreciated in ...
, a type of wood used for guitar fingerboards
* ''
Rukun warga
A ''rukun warga'' (abbreviated RW, literally "pillar of residents") is an administrative division of Indonesia under the village or ''kelurahan'' (or under: ''dusun'' or village). , and the formation of local communities is through consultation ...
'', an administrative division of Indonesia
*
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 ...
(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
**
.rw, country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Rwanda
**
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda, Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is spoken in Rwanda and adjacent parts of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda (where there ...
, a language in Rwanda (ISO 639 alpha-2 code)
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Republic Airlines
Republic Airlines was an American airline formed by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways on July 1, 1979. Their headquarters were at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, in what is now Fort Snelling in unincorporate ...
(IATA airline designator)
*
Royal Wings, a Jordanian airline
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