Chow may refer to: * Selected set of

nutrient A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce. The requirement for dietary nutrient intake applies to animals, plants, fungi and protists. Nutrients can be incorporated into cells for metabolic purposes or excret ...

s fed to animals subjected to laboratory testing *

Chow Chow The Chow Chow is a spitz-type of dog breed originally from Northern China. The Chow Chow is a sturdily built dog, square in profile, with a broad skull and small, triangular, erect ears with rounded tips. The breed is known for a very dense do ...

, a dog breed * A slang term for

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...

in general (such as in the terms "chow down" or "chow hall") *

Chow test The Chow test (), proposed by econometrician Gregory Chow in 1960, is a statistical test of whether the true coefficients in two linear regressions on different data sets are equal. In econometrics, it is most commonly used in time series analysis ...

, a statistical test for detecting differences between trends in time series *

Chow (unit) A buddam (also known as a chow) was a unit of mass used in the pearl trade in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) during the 19th century. One buddam was equivalent to 1/1600 of a chow, or 1/16 of a docra. See also * List of customary units of measurement in ...

, an obsolete unit of mass in the pearl trade in Mumbai *

Chow (website) Chowhound (or chowhound.com) is an American based food website launched in 1997. It changed ownership in 2006 and 2020, with its third owner suspending the website in March 2022. In October 2023, Static Media purchased the operation, reactivatin ...

, a popular online food discussion site * Chow, an alternate name for the star

Beta Serpentis Beta Serpentis, Latinized from β Serpentis, also named Zhou, is a binary star system in the constellation Serpens, in its head (Serpens Caput). It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +3.65. Based u ...

* ''Chow'', a 2024 short horror film starring

Ben Platt Benjamin Schiff Platt (born September 24, 1993) is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt (producer), Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and ...

* Mr. Chow, an upscale Chinese restaurant chain *

Chow (surname) Chow is a Chinese and English surname. Origins As an English surname, Chow originated as a nickname, from Middle English , meaning " chough" or "jackdaw". As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different var ...

, an English surname, as well as a Latin-alphabet spelling of various Chinese surnames * The Chinese word 炒 (stir-fry) as in

chow mein ''Chow mein'' ( and , ; Cantonese Yale: ''cháaumihn'', Pinyin: ''chǎomiàn'') is a dish of Chinese stir-fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes meat or tofu. Over the centuries, variations of ''chǎomiàn'' were developed in many reg ...