(Main list of acronyms)

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  • V – (s) 5 (in Roman numerals) - Vanadium – Volt

VA

  • VA – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) – (s) Virginia (postal symbol) – (i) Various Artists
  • VACIS – (a) Vehicle And Container Inspection System
  • VACIS – (a) Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
  • VACUUM - (a) Valid Accurate Consistent Uniform Unified Model
  • VANOS – (p) Variable Nockenwelle System
  • VAO – (i) Vienna Art Orchestra
  • VASIS – (a) Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation)
  • VAT – (i) Value-Added Tax – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)

VB

  • VB – (i) Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic
  • VBA – (i) Visual Basic for Applications

VC

  • VC – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Victoria Cross
  • VCDS – (i) (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff – (i) VAG-COM Diagnostic System
  • vCJD – (i) Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
  • VCJCS – (i) Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • VCNO – (i) (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
  • VCR – (i) Video cassette recorder
  • VCofS – (i) Vice Chief of Staff
  • VCT – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)

VD

  • VD – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977) – (i) Venereal Disease
  • VDFS - (i) VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
  • VDMOS – (i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss")
  • VDOT – (i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot")
  • VDR – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)

VE

  • ve – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • VE – (s) Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
  • VEB – (s) Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • VEEGA – (a) Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
  • ven – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • VEN – (s) Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • VERDI – (i) Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy)
  • VERITAS – (a) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

VF

  • VF - (i) VinFast (Vietnamese automobile brand)
  • VFA
  • (i) Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league)
  • (i) Volatile Fatty Acid
  • (s) Fixed-wing Strike Fighter Squadron (U.S Naval Aviation squadron type)
  • VfD – (i) Articles for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
  • VFL – (i) Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:

:# The original VFL, formed when the original VFA split in 1896, evolved into today's Australian Football League.

:# The modern VFL, which operates to this day as a semi-professional developmental league for the AFL, is the successor to the VFA.

  • VFM – (i) Value For Money
  • VFMO – (i) Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
  • VFR – (i) Visual Flight Rules
  • VFT – (i) Virtual Function Table
  • VFW – (i) Veterans of Foreign Wars

VG

  • VG – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
  • VGB – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

VH

  • VH1 – (a/i) Video Hits One
  • VHF – (i) Very High Frequency

VI

  • vi – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • VI – (s) 6 (in Roman numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – United States Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) vide infra (Latin, "see below") – Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW)
  • VIA – (a) Versatile Interface Adapter
  • VIC – (s) Victoria, Australia (postal symbol) – (a) Video Interface Chip – Virginia Intermont College
  • VIDS – (i) Visual Information Display System
  • vie – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • VII – (s) 7 (in Roman numerals)
  • VIII – (s) 8 (in Roman numerals)
  • VIN – (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
  • VIP – (i) see entry
  • VIR – (s) United States Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) – Virgin Atlantic (ICAO code)
  • VIS – (i) Vavoua International School – Vienna Independent Shorts – Viewable Image Size – Visual Instruction Set
  • VISCII – (p) VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • VIT – (i) Vellore Institute of Technology
  • VIVO – (i) Video In Video Out

VJ

  • VJ – (i) Video Jockey

VK

  • VK – (s) Australia (ham radio code) – (i) Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper

VL

  • VLA – (i) Very Large Array – (UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
  • VLAD – (a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
  • VLBA – (i) Very Long Baseline Array
  • VLF – (i) Very Low Frequency
  • VLIW – (i) Very Long Instruction Word
  • VLPFC – (i) VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
  • VLPMC – (i) VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
  • VLSF – (i) Vieille langue des signes française, Old French Sign Language
  • VLSI – (i) Very-large-scale integration
  • VLVS – (i) Very Loud, Very Stinky

VM

  • VM – (s) Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • VMASC – (i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask")
  • VMF – (i) Variable Message Format
  • VMF – Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
  • VMN – (p) VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)

VN

  • VN
  • (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
  • Vietnam Airlines (IATA code)
  • Vietnam's aircraft registration prefix
  • VND – (s) Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • VNIR – (i) Visible and Near InfraRed
  • VNM – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • VNS – see entry

VO

  • VOA – (i) Voice of America
  • vo – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • VOC – (i) (Dutch East India Company) – Volatile organic compounds
  • VOIP – (a, i) Voice Over Internet Protocol
  • vol – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • VOLT – (a) Visual OpenType Layout Tool
  • VON – (i) Victorian Order of Nurses
  • VOR – (i) VHF Omnidirectional Ranging
  • VOR – (a) Voice of Russia
  • VOV - (i) Voice of Vietnam
  • VOX – (p) Voice Operated eXchange (Voice-operated oscillator)

VP

  • VP – (a/i) Vice-president ("veep")
  • VPN – (i) Virtual private network

VQ

  • VQ
  • (i) Vector quantization
  • (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • Aircraft registration prefix for Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Saint Helena and Turks and Caicos.

VR

  • VR – (i) Virtual reality
  • VROTS – (i) Victorian rare or threatened species
  • VRSG – (i) Virtual reality scene generator
  • V/R - (i) Very respectfully; standard military closure

VS

  • VS – (i) Very special (brandy grade) – vide supra (Latin, "see above")
  • VSAT – (a) Very small aperture terminal ("vee-satt")
  • VSHORAD – (p) Very short range air defence
  • VSO – (i) Voluntary Services Overseas
  • VSOP – (i) Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French, "Planetary Orbit Secular Variations") – Very small outline package (integrated circuit) – Very superior old pale (brandy grade) – VLBI Space Observatory Programme
  • VSR – (i) Very special relativity
  • V/STOL – (p) Vertical/short take-off and landing ("vee-stoll")

VT

  • VT
  • (s) Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Vermont (postal symbol)
  • (i) Video tape
  • Virginia Tech
  • VTC – (i) Video Tele-Conference
  • VTEC – (i) Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
  • VTOL – (i) Vertical Take-Off & Landing

VU

  • VU – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Vedanta University
  • VUB – (i) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
  • VUK – (a) Value Up Kit
  • VUT – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • VUV – (s) Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)

VV

  • V&V – (i) Verification & Validation
  • VV – (i) Via Voice – Village Voice
  • VV&A – (i) Verification, Validation & Accreditation
  • VVAF – (i) Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

VW

  • VW – (i) Volkswagen

VZ

  • VZ – (s) Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
  • vzw – (i) vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (Dutch "non-profit organisation")