PV

PV may refer to:

Places

In the United States

• Palos Verdes Peninsula in California
• Prescott Valley, Arizona

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, 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
• 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 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

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 (disambiguation)

See also

• MDPV, a chemical
• a-PVP, a chemical
• Pee Vee (disambiguation)