SW

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SW, sw and s/w may stand for:

Companies

Air Namibia, IATA airline code
Sierra Wireless, Inc., TSX
Silk Way Airlines, an Azerbaijani private cargo airline
Smith & Wesson, S&W, a firearms manufacturer
Southern Winds Airlines, a defunct Argentine airline
Southwestern Company, a publishing company designed for college students

Geography

Southwest, one of the four ordinal directions
Sweden (FIPS country code SW)
SW postcode area, southwest London, England
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany, vehicle registration code
Swietochlowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, vehicle registration code

Occupations

Steelworker (US Navy), an occupational rating
Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

Shortwave radio band, 1.6–30 MHz
Shortwave radiation, in visible and near visible bands
Smith–Waterman algorithm, algorithm for performing local sequence alignment

Other uses in science and technology

Sport wagon or crossover, an automobile configuration
Station wagon, a designation of some manufacturers
Olof Swartz, botanist, abbreviated Sw. in botanical citations
Band 3, a protein
Unified Soil Classification System symbol for well graded sand

Other uses

Swahili language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "sw")
Star Wars, science fiction film franchise

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