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PV may refer to:
Places
In the United States
- Paradise Valley, Arizona
- Prescott Valley, Arizona
- Palos Verdes, California
- Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
In other countries
- Paceville, Malta
- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- Postal village
Politics
- Pamulaparti Venkatanarasimharao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, popularly known as PV
- Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
- Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems
- Píratar á Vesturlandi, a regional arm of the Icelandic Pirate Party in West Iceland, commonly referred to as PV
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
- Pharmacovigilance
- Poliovirus
- Pathovar, a classification scheme for bacteria
- Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
- Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug
Chemistry
- Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT)
- Protecting group, as Pv, Pivaloyll
- 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
- pv (Pipe Viewer), a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline
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, often abbreviated as PV-number
Other uses in science and technology
- Personal vaporizer, also called an electronic cigarette
- Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight directly into electricity
- Potential vorticity
- Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
- Process variable, a variable representing the current states or value of the process being controlled in a feedback control loop
- Programmed visibility, of traffic signals
Transportation
- 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
- Point of view (literature)
- Port Vale F.C., an English football club
- Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
- Prairie Vista Elementary School
- Present value of money
- Promotional Video
See also
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