cw

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. clockwise.

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CW ² American  

abbreviation

1. chemical warfare.

2. chemical weapon.

3. content warning.

4. continuous wave.

5. conventional wisdom.

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CW British  

abbreviation

1. radio continuous waves

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noun

1. 1. an informal term for Morse code

   2. ( as modifier )

      his CW speed is 30 words per minute

abbreviation

1. chemical weapons or chemical warfare

Example Sentences

As representing the Frankish form, we have more names in the sharper form cw, which is represented by q.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert

Q, as in other languages, is always followed by u, and has a sound which our Saxon ancestors well expressed by cw, as quadrant, queen, equestrian, quilt, inquiry, quire, quotidian.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

I built a cw transmitter using four Philips valves.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

Q is superfluous, cw or kw being its equivalent.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The A.S. hw has become wh; cw has become qu as in queen, from A.S. cw�n; while w is occasionally intrusive, as in whole, from A.S. h�l.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various