PV may refer to:

Places

  • Paceville, Malta
  • Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • Postal village, a settlement that has a post office

United States

  • Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
  • Prescott Valley, Arizona
  • Prairie Village, Kansas

Politics

  • Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
  • Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore
  • Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems

Science and technology

  • Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity
  • Potential vorticity, in fluid dynamics
  • Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
  • Process variable, in control systems
  • Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

Biology and medicine

  • Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein
  • Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics
  • Pemphigus vulgaris, a chronic blistering skin disease
  • Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
  • Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
  • Pharmacovigilance, a science of pharmaceutical products
  • Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio
  • Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
  • Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug

Chemistry

  • Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT)
  • Protecting group, as Pv, Pivaloyl
  • 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

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 (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

Sports

  • Pickleball Victoria, an Australian state level organization
  • Port Vale F.C., an English football club
  • "Pole vault" athletics abbreviation in track and field

Transportation

  • Pallavaram railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Southern Railway station code)
  • 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

  • Personal vaporizer or electronic cigarette
  • P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV
  • Point of view (literature)
  • Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
  • Prairie Vista Elementary School, Indiana, US
  • Present value, of money
  • Prometheus Bound, an ancient Greek tragedy commonly abbreviated as PV, on the basis of its Latin title Prometheus Vinctus
  • Promotional video (disambiguation)

See also

  • Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a chemical
  • alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (a-PVP), a chemical
  • Pee Vee (disambiguation)
  • Peavey (disambiguation)