WS

WS, Ws, or ws may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Weird Science (comics), a science fiction comic magazine published by EC Comics
  • Weird Science (film), a 1985 John Hughes film based on the comic book series of the same name
• WonderSwan, a portable video game platform sold by Bandai in Japan from 1999 through 2004

Businesses and organizations

• Ware Shoals Railroad (reporting mark WS)
• WestJet (IATA airline code WS)
• Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet, in post-nomial abbreviation

Places

• WS postcode area, UK, a postcode area in the West Midlands
• Samoa (ISO 3166-1 country code WS)
• Warsangali Sultanate, a sultanate in northern Somalia
• Western Sahara
• Winschoten railway station, a train station in the Netherlands
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US

Science and technology

• .ws, the Internet country code top-level domain for Samoa
• ws://, the prefix used to indicate WebSocket protocol in an URI
• Watt second (Ws) or Joule, a unit of energy or work
• Web service, a method of communication between two electronic devices over a network
• Werner syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by premature aging
• Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder

Other uses

• William Shakespeare, a famous Elizabethan playwright and poet
• Win Shares, a baseball statistic
• World Series, the championship series of Major League Baseball

See also

• The W's, a 1990s Christian swing band
• Five Ws, a concept in journalism
• WS FTP, a File Transfer Protocol client