Raw - Definition and Overview

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 Levi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked.

Raw also refers to:

• Research and Analysis Wing, the external Indian intelligence wing
• the Sierra Club newsletter RAW
• 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
• a Camera raw file used by digital cameras, containing the unprocessed data from the sensor
• part of the name of various events from World Wrestling Entertainment, e.g. WWE RAW
• the name of various bars and nightclubs
• a television series named RAW FM, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [1] (http://www.abc.net.au/raw/)
• an Australian narrowcast radio network named RawFM [2] (http://www.rawfm.com.au/)
• a comix anthology named Raw, edited by Art Spiegelman
• the Rules as Written
• a censored hentai movie