PVS
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The acronym PVS can stand for more than one thing:
- Persistent vegetative state
- Polynesian Voyaging Society
- Potato virus S
- Post-Vietnam syndrome
- Potentially visible set, a technique to speed-up BSP tree navigation in FPS games
- The IATA code for Provideniya Bay Airport
- Principal variation search
- Prototype Verification System, a specification language used for the formal specification and verification of software
- A satirical news channel on the BBC's programme Broken news :- see PVS (channel)
- Prisoner Visitation and Support, a prison-visitation program in the United States Federal and Military prisons
- Personal Viewing Sight with a numerical suffix to designate the model. PVS's are used by the American military for passive (non-thermal) night vision devices, such as PVS-14. PVS suffixes range from PVS-2 through PVS-22 skipping PVS-16. Most military PVS's have a civilian equivalent model number
- Polyvinyl siloxane, an addition reaction silicone elastomer used as impression material in Dentistry