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

Q is superfluous, cw or kw being its equivalent.

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

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

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

"They belileve that an not inconsiderable number of dddeeeeeddlllllllcleeeeeece cw pavem ponnun ex-parte opinions are given for what they may be worth."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 1, 1919 by Various

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.