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bw

bw is the abbreviation of bodyweight.

bw is the abbreviation of birth weight.

Meaning of bodyweight

Noun

bodyweight (countable and uncountable, plural bodyweights)

  1. The weight or mass of an organism.
    • C57BL/6 mice (postnatal day 45–100) expressing enhanced GFP under the Thy-1 promoter in a small subset of cortical neurons (line GFP-M 18 ) were anaesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (0.14 mg per gram of bodyweight) and xylazine (0.01 mg per gram of bodyweight).2008 November 12, Sonja B. Hofer, et el., “Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07487

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Meaning of birth weight

Noun

birth weight (countable and uncountable, plural birth weights)

  1. The weight of a baby at birth.
    Synonyms:
    baby weight

Noun capitalized: BW

BW (countable and uncountable, plural BWs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bench warrant.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of black woman.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bearing wall.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of biological warfare.
    • They believe that the AIDS virus, rather than being a product of U.S. BW research, was engineered by Soviet-instigated cancer research experiments and then spread with Soviet complicity to attack the U.S. population.1987 May 9, Kim Westheimer, “NY Heats Up for AIDS Demos”, in Gay Community News, page 7

Proper noun capitalized: BW

BW

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Baden-Württemberg, a federal state of Germany.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black and White.

Interjection capitalized: BW

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of best wishes.

Forms of bw

pluralBWs

Questions about bw

What is bw the abbreviation of?
Bw is the abbreviation of bodyweight.
What part of speech is bw?
Bw can be a noun, a proper noun or an interjection.
What is the plural of bw?
The plural of bw is BWs.

Words near bw in the dictionary

  1. BVP
  2. BVR
  3. BVRAAM
  4. BVRAAMs
  5. BVSc
  6. bw
  7. BW2
  8. BWA
  9. bwaaa
  10. BWAD
  11. BWADs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bw (page history and authors); BW (page history and authors); bodyweight (page history and authors); birth weight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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