SWS

SWS, SWs, or sWS may refer to:

Education

• Sacramento Waldorf School, Pre-K-12 coeducational private school in Sacramento, California
• School within a School, a democratic education program at Brookline High School

Machines

• M21 Sniper Weapon System, a US Army sniper rifle
• M24 Sniper Weapon System, a US Army sniper rifle
• Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper German half-track vehicle deployed late into World War II
• SWS (trolleybus), a hybrid trolleybus prototype

Technology

• Scientific Workflow System, scientific application software that composes, executes, and manages workflows
• Seawater scale, a measure of concentration of H⁺, HSO₄⁺, and HF
• Semantic Web service, a Web service that can be published, discovered, composed, and executed by Web applications
• Sentient World Simulation, a project to be based on Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations
• Silly window syndrome, a TCP flow control problem in computer networks
• Sine wave speech, a speech synthesis technique that replaces formants with pure tone whistles
• Smart wearable system, an extension of the wearable computer

Places

• South West State, federal member state of Somalia established 1 April 2002

Other uses

• Sleeping with Sirens, an American rock band
• Safe Water System, initiative by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve water quality
• Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich, a now defunct Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer
• Seann William Scott (b. 1976), US actor
• Shaun White Snowboarding, a 2008 video game
• Sleeping With Sirens, an American post-hardcore band
• Slow-wave sleep, deep sleep
• Social Weather Stations, a social research institution in the Philippines
• Society of Wetland Scientists, a US non-profit organization
• Southern Water Services, a private utility company responsible for public wastewater collection and treatment in South England
• SouthWest Service, a Metra route to Manhattan, Illinois
• Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber, a Swiss charity and relief organization founded by Pastor Ernst Sieber
• Super World of Sports, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion
• SWS, IATA airport code for Swansea Airport
• SWs, listener missives that express appreciation for Sarah Kennedy's breakfast show on BBC Radio 2
• An abbreviation for sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, the benediction for the Islamic prophet Muhammad (meaning Peace be upon him)