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. Materials are inputs to production or manufacturing. ... Natural is defined as of or relating to nature; this applies to both definitions of nature: essence (ones true nature) and the untouched world (force of nature). Natural is often used meaning good, healthy, or belonging to human nature. This use can be questioned, as many freely growing plants... Raw Food is a term most commonly used in the food industry to describe food that has not been cooked or otherwise processed. ... Cooking is an act of preparing food for eating. ... Silk weaver Silk is a natural protein fiber that can be woven into textiles. ... Claude Lévi Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA pronunciation ) born November 28, 1908, is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth centurys greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. ... The Raw and the Cooked is the second album by Fine Young Cannibals. ...

Raw may also refer to:

People

• Robert Anton Wilson, American futurist and author

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born January 18, 1932) is a futurist, libertarian, essayist, and novelist. ...

Slang

Typically used in the South Florida/Miami-Dade Area. Definition: awesome, cool, amazing, spectacular.

Raw is a very common street name for heroin used in the midwest USA. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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)

A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a digital (usually binary) code. ... A disk image is a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage medium or device. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

Television, Internet 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
• Raw-BertReceived fame from Myspace

RAW was a groundbreaking comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. ... WWE RAW is the Monday night professional wrestling show for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). ... Raw FM was an Australian Television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that aired for one season of thirteen episodes between November 1997 and February 1998. ... Kerrang! is a weekly music magazine (mainly rock) published by EMAP in the United Kingdom. ... Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) is an American stand-up comedy film directed by Robert Townsend and starring Eddie Murphy. ... Radio Warwick or RaW is the student radio station at the University of Warwick and winner of the 2000 and 2003 BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Association Best Station awards. ... The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist John Muir, who became its first president. ... The Ramones were an American band widely considered to be the first punk rock group. ...

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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