PV
PV may refer to:
Places
- Paceville, Malta
- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- Postal village, a settlement that has a post office
United States
Politics
- Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
- Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore
- Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems
Science and technology
- Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity
- Potential vorticity, in fluid dynamics
- Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
- Process variable, in control systems
- Programmed visibility, of traffic signals
Biology and medicine
- Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein
- Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics
- Pemphigus vulgaris, a chronic blistering skin disease
- Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
- Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
- Pharmacovigilance, a science of pharmaceutical products
- Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio
- Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
- Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug
Chemistry
- Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT)
- Protecting group, as Pv, Pivaloyl
- Peroxide value
- Perovskite (Pv), a mineral
Computing
- Page view, a metric in web analytics
- Semaphore (programming), from P and V operations in semaphores restricting processes in a shared environment
- Paravirtualization, a technique for the virtualization of guest operating systems in virtual machines
Mathematics
- Principal value, a single-valued function in complex analysis
- Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; see Variation (game tree)
- Cauchy principal value, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined
- Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV-number), a real algebraic integer
Transportation
- Pallavaram railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Southern Railway station code)
- Pasažieru vilciens, a Latvian passenger-carrying railway company
- PV-1 Ventura, a World War II-era bomber and patrol aircraft
- PAN Air (IATA airline designator)
- Volvo PV, an automobile
Other uses
- Personal vaporizer or electronic cigarette
- P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV
- Point of view (literature)
- Port Vale F.C., an English football club
- Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
- Prairie Vista Elementary School, Indiana, US
- Present value, of money
- Promotional video (disambiguation)
See also
- Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a chemical
- alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (a-PVP), a chemical
- Pee Vee (disambiguation)
- Peavey (disambiguation)
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