PV

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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

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)
• Port Vale F.C., an English football club
• Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
• Prairie Vista Elementary School, Indiana, US
• Present value, of money
• Promotional video (disambiguation)

See also

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

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