title: GW
text: # GW
  
  GW may refer to:
  
  ## Arts, entertainment and media
  
  ### Gaming
  
  * Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
  * Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
  * GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
  * Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
  * Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
  * Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)
  
  ### Other uses in arts and entertainment
  
  * Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
  * Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another
  
  ## Calendar
  
  * Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays
  
  ## Places
  
  * Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
  * Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
  * George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
  * George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
     * George Washington University Hospital
  
  ## Science, technology and mathematics
  
  ### Physics
  
  * GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
  * Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to $10^9$ watts
  * Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
     * The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations
  
  ### Other uses in science, technology and mathematics
  
  * .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
  * GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
  * Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
  * Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see Witt group § Grothendieck-Witt ring
  * GW, the human gene MASTL
  
  ## People with the initials GW
  
  * George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
  * Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
  * George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States
  