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Raw

Raw describes a material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cooked, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk. Raw also has symbolic meaning. See Claude Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the Cooked

RAW or raw may also refer to:

Entertainment and literature

Robert Anton Wilson, American author
Eddie Murphy Raw, a 1987 live stand-up comedy recording
The Mighty RAW, an American music artist, most commonly known as Ron Wasserman or Aaron Waters
Ramones: Raw, a 2004 music documentary featuring the Ramones
R.A.W (album), an album by Daz Dillinger
Raw (The Alarm album), a 1991 album by The Alarm
Raw (Jimmy Barnes album), a 2001 album by Jimmy Barnes
Raw (Ra album), a 2006 heavy metal live album by Ra
Raw, a song by R&B singer Monica's album, The Makings of Me
RAW (magazine), an avant-garde alternative comics magazine launched in 1980
Raw magazine (rock), a heavy metal magazine published by EMAP in the 80's and 90's
Raw magazine, an in-house BBC magazine
Raw (film), a 1996 skateboard film from Thrasher Magazine
RAW (novel), a novel by Scott Monk
"Raw" (song), a 1988 rap single by Big Daddy Kane
RaW, or Radio Warwick, the University of Warwick student radio station
Raw Deal (1986 film), a 1986 thriller film
Raw FM, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series
Raw Meat, a 1972 British horror film
WWE Raw, a World Wrestling Entertainment program
Raw (television series), an Irish drama series

Technology

.RAW, a file format for :
Raw image format, a variety of image files used by digital cameras containing the unprocessed data from the sensor
Xcalibur (software), a Thermo mass spectrometry software
MassLynx, a Waters mass spectrometry software
Raw audio format, a file type used to represent sound as pulse-code modulation data
Raw Architecture Workstation, a simple wire-efficient multicore CPU architecture
Read after write, technologies used for CD-R and CD-RW
"Read and write," see Input/output
an uncompressed disk image
a Unix file format containing insufficient information for proper screen mapping of characters[http://www.rt.com/man/consolechars.8.html Linux User's Manual CONSOLECHARS(8)]
rawdisk, a binary level disk access

Other

RAW (animanga), unsubtitled or untranslated anime or manga
RAW (rolling paper), a brand of cigarette rolling paper
Raw Design, an architecture firm based out of Toronto, Ontario
Rifleman's Assault Weapon, a rocket propelled rifle launched standoff munition
Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency
Raw, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Raw Engineering, a kit car manufacturer based in Shelwick, just north of Hereford, UK.

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Raw" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Dutch, Simple English, Finnish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: راو, Spanish: RAW, French: RAW, Italian: RAW, Japanese: RAW, Portuguese: RAW, Russian: RAW, Swedish: RAW.


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