CV, Cv, or cv may refer to:

  • Curriculum vitae, a summary of academic and professional history and achievements

CV, Cv, or cv may also refer to:

Businesses and organisations

  • Cargolux (IATA designator CV), a Luxembourg cargo airline
  • , a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities
  • Central Vermont Railway, a railway that operated in the New England states
  • Christian Voice (UK), a UK advocacy group
  • , a Brazilian criminal organization
  • , a student group at Columbia University

Computing and electronics

  • Capacitance voltage profiling, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices
  • Computer vision, methods of extracting information and meaning from images and video
  • Constant voltage source, electrical description
  • CV/Gate, a control voltage and gate solution
  • Cross-validation (statistics), a method to separate data in machine learning
  • Composite video, an analog video signal format used by older monitors and consumer video equipment.

Literature and media

  • CV (novel), a novel by Damon Knight
  • Character voice, or CV
  • CV Network, a defunct Spanish-language television network in the United States
  • , formerly CV-TV, a Colombian programadora

Medicine

  • Color vision, the ability to perceive differences in light frequency
  • Contractile vacuole, an organelle found in some cells
  • Coronavirus, a type of virus, notably:
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus causing the 2019–2020 outbreak
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
  • COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing pandemic
  • Conduction velocity, the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway

Places

  • .cv, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde
  • Cee Vee, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • CV postcode area, postcode area within the United Kingdom

Sports

  • Comilla Victorians, a Bangladesh Premier League cricket franchise

Other technical terms

  • C<sub>v</sub>, the flow coefficient, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications
  • c<sub>v</sub>, the specific heat of a material at constant volume
  • Calorific value, the amount of heat released during the combustion of a substance
  • Cataclysmic variable star, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness
  • Coefficient of variation, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution
  • Compensating variation, an economic concept of compensation for a price change
  • Constant-velocity joint, or CV-joint
  • Control volume, a presumed volume for analysing the thermodynamic state of a system
  • Consonantvowel, an open-syllable pattern in linguistics
  • Cultivated variety or cultivar, once commonly abbreviated cv., now officially deprecated but widely used and recommended
  • Cyclic voltammetry, an electrochemical way of measuring
  • Chemical formula of vanadium carbide

Other uses

  • CV (tax horsepower), a French and Italian system of car taxation
  • CV, the Hull classification symbol for aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy
  • 105 (number), Roman numerals representation of CV
  • Chuvash language, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV)
  • Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decorations
  • International CV, a rebadged medium duty Chevrolet Silverado

See also

  • C5 (disambiguation), including a list of topics named C.V., etc.