CV

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CV (and its variants cV, Cv, and cv) is a two-letter abbreviation that can stand for:

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• Curriculum vitæ (Latin for "course of life"), also known as a Résumé; a summary of academic and professional history and achievements
• Aircraft carrier, United States Navy's hull classification symbol
• Calculus of variations in mathematics
• Calorific value
• Commercial Vehicle
• Cape Verde, ISO 3166, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram
• Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen, a German umbrella organisation of catholic student fraternities
• Carro Veloce, Italian Made Tankettes model (eg. CV33)
• Castlevania, a popular video game series
• Castro Valley, California
• Cataclysmic variable star
• Circulatory system (CV for Cardiovascular), in medicine
• Cargolux, airline designator
• Central Vermont Railway reporting mark
• Character Voice (an abbreviation in Japan for seiyū sometimes used by Western fans of anime.)
• Chettinad Vidyashram, a large private school
• Choking Victim
• Coefficient of variation, in mathematics and statistics
• ColecoVision, a video game console
• Comando Vermelho, a Brazilian criminal organization created in 1969
• Combat Vehicle 90
• Compensating variation, economic concept of compensation for a price change.
• Computer Vision
• Concurrent Versions System
• Constant-velocity joint
• Controlled vocabulary
• Control Volume, term used in fluid mechanics for a boundary in which to consider an energy balance.
• Conversio Virium
• Copy and paste, in computing, ctrl+c, followed by ctrl+v are the keystrokes for copying and pasting.
• Courvoisier, cognac.
• Cove - CV is used as an abbreviation by the US Postal Service for "Cove"
• Cross of Valour, a Canadian and Australian decoration
• CV/Gate, a control voltage and gate solution commonly used in vintage pre-MIDI synthesizers for external control
• Cyclic Voltammetry, an electrochemical technique in chemistry
• Horsepower, a unit of power, from the French Cheval vapeur (CV or cv)
• 105 (number) in Roman numerals.

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• flow coefficient, a coefficient used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications.
• Cultivar, in botany
• Heat capacity for constant volume, in Physics
• Cost Variance, in project management

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• Cape Verde, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .cv
• Chuvash language, ISO 639-1 alpha 2 language code