KV may refer to:

Places

  • Kosovo, an Eastern European country
  • Kennebecasis Valley, a region in New Brunswick, Canada
  • KV (Egyptology), Kings' Valley, tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

Companies and organizations

  • KV Pharmaceutical, a drug company
  • KV Racing Technology, an auto racing team
  • KV, the IATA designator for Sky Regional Airlines
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya, a system of schools for the children of public servants in India
  • Khosla Ventures, an American venture capital firm
  • Knattspyrnufélag Vesturbæjar, an Icelandic football club
  • Kavminvodyavia, a Russian airline
  • Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Swedish: '), government agency
  • ' (English:"Catholic Scouts"), part of Scouting Nederland

Science and technology

  • Kv (flow factor), a measure of the flow factor of a liquid
  • Kilovolt (kV), a unit of electric potential
  • Motor velocity constant (K<sub>v</sub>), of an electric motor
  • Voltage-gated potassium channel (K<sub>v</sub>), in cell biology
  • Kv, a programming language implemented in Kivy
  • Karnaugh-Veitch diagram, a logic optimization method
  • Key–value pair
  • Key–value database, or key–value store

Vehicles

  • Kliment Voroshilov tank, a series of Soviet Second World War heavy tanks
  • KV, prefix (NoCGV in English) for Norwegian Coast Guard vessels

Other uses

  • Köchel-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of compositions by Mozart
  • Komi language (ISO 639-1 code "kv"), spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia
  • "KV" (fictional virus), the fictional viral plague from the 2007 film I Am Legend (film)

See also

  • Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (disambiguation)
  • KVS (disambiguation)
  • VK (disambiguation)
  • V (disambiguation)
  • K (disambiguation)