Raw describes 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 may also refer to:

People

• Robert Anton Wilson, American futurist and author

Slang

Raw is a very common street name for heroin used in the midwest USA.

Technology

• RAW image format, a variety of image files used by digital cameras containing the unprocessed data from the sensor.
• RAW audio format, a filetype used to represent sound as Pulse-code modulation data, without header or metadata.
• Read After Write, technologies such as CD-R and CD-RW which allow reading data immediately after writing, as opposed to CD-ROMs which usually go through mass replication before it can be read.
• An uncompressed disk image.
• a Unix file format containing insufficient information for proper screen mapping of characters. Linux User's Manual CONSOLECHARS(8)

Television and magazines

• RAW (magazine), a large-format, avant-garde alternative comics magazine launched in 1980 and edited by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman
• WWE RAW, a World Wrestling Entertainment program
• Raw FM, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series
• Raw Magazine, EMAP's metal magazine of the 1980s and early 1990s, relaunched as a Britpop magazine in the mid 1990s
• Eddie Murphy Raw, a live stand-up comedy recording
• Radio Warwick, the University of Warwick student radio station
• RAW, the Sierra Club newsletter
• Ramones RAW, a music documentary

Acronyms

• Raw Architecture Workstation
• Ready and willing
• Rules as written
• Read and Write

Other

• Research and Analysis Wing, the external Indian intelligence wing
• Sexual intercourse engaged in without using a condom
• RAW (animanga), Unsubtitled or untranslated anime or manga
• Raw, an album by singer Monica
• The Mighty RAW, singer Ron Wasserman a.k.a. Aaron Waters

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