NW

NW may refer to:

In arts and entertainment:

• NW (novel), by Zadie Smith
• Nat Wolff, a singer and actor
• New wave music, a genre
• New Weekly, an Australian celebrity magazine
• Nintendo Wii, a video game console

Geography:

• Northwest, an ordinal direction
• NW postcode area, northwest London, UK
• Nidwalden, a canton of Switzerland
• North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany

Technology:

• Nanowire, a nanostructure with a diameter on the order of a nanometer
• NetWare, in file and protocol names of the Novell NetWare family
• Nuclear warfare, the use of nuclear weapons in war
• An ISO-specified vacuum flange fitting (code NW)

Other uses:

• No worries, an expression
• Norfolk and Western Railroad, a U.S. class I railroad
• North Western Reporter, a US case law report series
• Northwest Airlines (former IATA airline code NW)