What is "ows"

OWS may refer to

• Occupy Wall Street, a political protest starting in 2011 that originated in New York City at Zucotti Park
• Oil–water separator, a device to separate oil and water
• Oily water separator, shipboard equipment
• Order of World Scouts, the first international Scouting organisation
• Overhead Weapon Station, a remote weapon station
• Open Window School, a private school located in Seattle, Washington
• Open Whisper Systems, a nonprofit open-source software group
• Oritsé Williams, former member of JLS
• Optional White Space (computer science), sometimes used when defining a grammar or protocol specification, see Metasyntax
• Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
• OGC Web Service Common, a standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium