NW
NW is an abbreviation for:
- next week , as a shortcut
- National resistance , mainly German right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis for their groups and organizations
- Nominal size , diameter of a pipe / hose line or the size of a fitting
- Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft AG, Wagenbau-Fabrik in Nesselsdorf (Kopřivnice)
- Neue Westfälische , German newspaper in the East Westphalia region
- New Caledonia , according to the ICAO code
- New Weekly , Australian tabloid weekly magazine
- Canton Nidwalden , a German-speaking canton in Switzerland
- Low water , water level in bodies of water that is well below what is defined as normal
- Nightwish , a symphonic metal band from the Finnish town of Kitee
- no way , “no chance, no way”, see net jargon
- Camshaft , machine element with which a rotary movement is converted into a longitudinal movement
- North Rhine-Westphalia , German state, outdated form, today NRW
- ISO 3166-2 code for North Rhine-Westphalia within Germany
- Northwest , cardinal point
- the Northwest Postal District (North West London ) (as the first letter of a UK postcode )
- Norfolk and Western Railway , former American railroad company
- Northwest Airlines (at times also Northwest Orient Airlines), was an American airline, based in Eagan according to the IATA code
- Wilhelmshaven , as the abbreviation for deep-sea fishing vessels according to the list of fishing license plates in Germany
NW as a distinguishing mark on license plates:
- Germany: urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
- UK: Stockton-on-Tees
- Switzerland: Canton of Nidwalden
nW is an abbreviation for:
- Nanowatt , one billionth of the unit of electrical power
