| Subject | German | English |
| biol. | Absorptions-HWS | absorption half-value layer (thickness) |
| biol. | Absorptions-HWS | absorption HVL |
| biol. | Absorptions-HWS | absorption half-thickness |
| chem. | Diaminschwarz HW | diamine black HW |
| med. | HWS-Syndrom | cervical syndrome |
| comp., MS | HWS-Verwaltung | HWS Administration (A set of activities including the installation, configuration, and deployment of HWS actions, and activity models. It also includes adding, removing, and updating constraints, and stopping, deleting, and archiving action instances or activity flows) |
| comp., MS | HWS-Workflow | HWS workflow (Any action, activity flow, or activity model that performs a process for an actor) |
| environ. | Isodosenkurven für Strahlungen mit einer Halbwertschicht – HWS – von O,5 mm Al | isodose curves for radiation of half-value layers of O,5 mm Al |
| nat.res. | maximal mögliches HW | maximum probable flood |