POW (disambiguation)
Appearance
POW stands for prisoner of war, a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
POW or pow may also stand for:
Entertainment
- Pow!, a 1960s British comic
- P.O.W. (TV series), a 2003 mini-series airing on ITV
- Pow Entertainment (Purveyors of Wonder Entertainment), a media production company
- Pow! (novel), a 2012 novel by Mo Yan
Music
- "P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)", a song from Beowülf's 1993 album Un-Sentimental
- "Pow" (Forward), a 2004 song by Lethal Bizzle and banned on radio
- "POW" (song), a 2009 song by rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
- "Pow", a song by The Beastie Boys from Check Your Head
- "Pow", a song by Graham Central Station from My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me
Video games
- P.O.W.: Prisoners of War', an arcade game that was ported to the NES console
Other
pow(x, y)
, an exponentiation function in computer programming- Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, or Polish Military Organisation, active before and during World War
- POW: the IATA code for Portorož Airport in Portorož, Slovenia
- PoW or POW: Proof of work in cryptography