BV

The abbreviation BV has multiple meanings, including:

In science and medicine:

• Bacterial vaginosis, the most common cause of vaginal infection
• Bed volume, a measure of the volume of material contained in bed of a vessel
• Binocular vision, vision in which both eyes are used together
• Biological value, a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body
• Blood vessel, part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body
• Belch Vocalizations, the most common form of intra-group communication among the Mountain Gorilla

Business and organizations:

• Beaulieu Vineyard, a Napa Valley winery
• Besloten Vennootschap, a type of Dutch private limited liability company
• Bicycle Victoria, an Australian bicycle advocacy organisation
• Black & Veatch, a U.S.-based engineering, consulting and construction company
• Blue Panorama Airlines' IATA airline designator
• Bottega Veneta, a manufacturer of luxury leather goods
• Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa
• BullionVault, an internet gold bullion exchange and physical storage provider
• Bureau Veritas, a certification agency
• Boeing Vertol, predecessor to Boeing Rotorcraft Systems

People:

• Bobby V, also known as Bobby Valentino, an American R&B singer
• Bobby Valentino, a British musician
• Bobby Vinton, an American pop singer
• Bobby Vee, an American pop singer
• Brian Vickers, a NASCAR driver

Other:

• Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), Mary, mother of Jesus, as venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
• Book value, in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
• Bounded variation, a concept in mathematical analysis
• Bouvet Island, an uninhabited sub-Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
  • .bv, the inactive ccTLD for Bouvet Island
• Breakdown voltage, the minimum voltage that causes a portion of an insulator to become electrically conductive
• Backing vocal, in music, a vocal harmony with the lead vocalist provided by one or more backing vocalists
• Boiling vessel, equipment provided to an armoured vehicle for heating food or water (chiefly British)
• Bounding volume, computer graphics and computational geometry, a bounding volume for a set of objects is a closed volume that completely contains the union of the objects in the set
• Buena Vista Elementary School, a school in the Walnut Creek, California School district (for other uses, see Buena Vista)