OWS

OWS may refer to

• Occupy Wall Street, a political protest starting in 2011 that originated in New York City at Zucotti Park
• OGC Web Service Common, a standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium
• Oil–water separator, a device to separate oil and water
• Oily water separator, shipboard equipment
• Open water swimming, outdoor swimming in open lakes, rivers, and oceans
• Open Whisper Systems, a nonprofit open-source software group
• Open Window School, a private school located in Bellevue, Washington
• Operation Warp Speed, the United States national program to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
• Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
• Optional White Space (computer science), sometimes used when defining a grammar or protocol specification, see Metasyntax
• Order of World Scouts, the first international Scouting organisation
• Oritsé Williams, former member of JLS
• Overhead Weapon Station, a remote weapon station
• Ocean Weather Ship (or Station), a past programme involving meteorological ships located in the ocean for use in weather forecasting