title: SWS
text: # SWS
  
  SWS, SWs, or sWS my refer to:
  
  ## Education
  
  * Sacramento Waldorf School, Pre-K-12 coeducational private school in Sacramento, California
  * School within a School, a democratic education program at Brookline High School
  
  ## Machines
  
  * M21 Sniper Weapon System, a US Army sniper rifle
  * M24 Sniper Weapon System, a US Army sniper rifle
  * Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper German half-track vehicle deployed late into World War II
  * SWS (trolleybus), a hybrid trolleybus prototype
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Scientific Workflow System, scientific application software that composes, executes, and manages workflows
  * Seawater scale, a measure of concentration of $H^+,$ $HSO_4^+,$ and HF
  * Semantic Web service, a Web service that can be published, discovered, composed, and executed by Web applications
  * Sentient World Simulation, a project to be based on Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations
  * Silly window syndrome, a TCP flow control problem in computer networks
  * Sine wave speech, a speech synthesis technique that replaces formants with pure tone whistles
  * Smart wearable system, an extension of the wearable computer
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Safe Water System, initiative by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve water quality
  * Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich, a now defunct Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer
  * Seann William Scott (b. 1976), US actor
  * Shaun White Snowboarding, a 2008 video game
  * Sleeping With Sirens, an American post-hardcore band
  * Slow-wave sleep, deep sleep
  * Social Weather Stations, a social research institution in the Philippines
  * Society of Wetland Scientists, a US non-profit organization
  * Southern Water Services, a private utility company responsible for public wastewater collection and treatment in South England
  * SouthWest Service, a Metra route to Manhattan, Illinois
  * Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber, a Swiss charity and relief organization founded by Pastor Ernst Sieber
  * Super World of Sports, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion
  * SWS, IATA airport code for Swansea Airport
  * SWs, listener missives that express appreciation for Sarah Kennedy's breakfast show on BBC Radio 2
  