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Definition: BW

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"BW" is a common misspelling or typo for: be, by, bowl, bow, bows, VW, BTW, bawl, HW, Wb, bawd, BWV, NbW, SbW, BWR, EBW.

Date "BW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1956. (references)

Specialty Definition: BW

Domain Definition
Computing Bw The country code for Botswana. (1999-01-27) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Administration Body weight (toxicology). (references)
Aerospace 1: Biowissenschaften (Spacelab D-1 Experiment). (references)
  2: Bulk water. (references)
  3: Bridgewire. (references)
Agriculture Body weight. (references)
Business Abbreviation for bandwidth. (references)
Environment Butt weld. (references)
Military 1: 1) Bandwidth. 2) Biological warfare. 3) Biological weapon. (references)
  2: Biological Warfare. (references)
Mining Letter name specifying the dimensions of bits, core barrels, and drill rods in the B-size and W-group wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 42 mm and a hole diameter of 60 mm. Syn: BX. (references)
Technology Bandwidth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: BW

Expressions Definition
BW defence Defense against biological warfare. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
BW defense Defense against biological warfare. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BW

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
BW Danish Republikken Botswana Geography
BW Dutch Republiek Botswana Geography
BW English Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. N/A
BW Finnish Botswanan tasavalta Geography
BW French République du Botswana Geography, Law
BW German Biologische Waffen Military & Defense
BW Greek Μποτσουάνα Geography
BW Italian Repubblica del Botswana Geography, Law
BW Portuguese República do Botsuana Geography
BW Spanish República de Botsuana Geography
BW Swedish Republiken Botswana Geography
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: BW


BW

BW may stand for:

Organizations

  • Baldwin-Wallace College, located in Berea, Ohio
  • Baroque Works, Organization from the anime One Piece
  • Bergesen Worldwide, a shipping company
  • BioWare, a Canadian electronic entertainment company
  • British Waterways, the body who look after the vast majority of the inland waterways in the UK
  • Brush Engineered Materials New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol
  • Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany
  • BWIA West Indies Airways, IATA Airline code
  • Caribbean Airlines, IATA airline code
  • SAP BW, short for SAP Business Information Warehouse, a data warehouse software from SAP

Nations and states

  • Bangladesh, World Meteorological Organization country code
  • Botswana, in the ISO 2-letter country code
    • .bw, the ccTLD for Botswana
  • Baden-Württemberg, a federal state of Germany

People

  • Barry Windham, a pro wrestler
  • Bernard Werber, French author
  • Bruce Willis, American Actor

Games

  • Before Waizz, a term used in the dating system for the Phantasy Star videogame series
  • StarCraft: Brood War (1998), an expansion set for the Blizzard Entertainment Real-time strategy computer game StarCraft
  • Battalion Wars, a video game for the Nintendo Gamecube

Others

  • "Backed with", a term referring to the A-side and B-side of 45 and 78 RPM records
  • bandwidth
  • Beast Wars, a Transformers toy line and TV series
  • Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, the use of a pathogen or toxin as a weapon of war
  • Black and white (colours) (B/W), used to describe movies and photographs
  • Body weight
  • Bordet-Wassermann test, a test for syphilis
  • Battlestar Wiki
  • Broken White, transportation engineering term for non-continuous white striping, to indicate merging area in same direction travel.

See also

  • B&W

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "BW". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: BW

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
BW 20     BW 20
BW Gas 8     BW Gas 8
BW Offshore 7     BW Offshore 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"BW" is a common misspelling or typo for: be, by, bowl, bow, bows, VW, BTW, bawl, HW, Wb, bawd, BWV, NbW, SbW, BWR, EBW.

Synonyms: BW
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

bandwidth, war, warfare.
Consider also: combat, battle, conflict, contest, throughput, band, bandwidths, action, antagonism, hostility, struggle, clash, opposition.

Expression

biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare.
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Translations: BW

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya فريق التفتيش على الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team), فريق الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha فريق التفتيش على الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team), فريق الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic فريق التفتيش على الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team), فريق الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 伯兹瓦纳 (bw), 生物武器视察队 (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 伯茲瓦納 (bw). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic فريق التفتيش على الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team), فريق الأسلحة البيولوجية (biological weapons inspection team, biological weapons team, BW team). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, bw. (volunteer & more translations)
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