CVC

CVC is an initialism that refers to any of the following:

Science and industry

• Compact Video Cassette – a quarter-inch video cassette format
• Card verification code – a security feature on credit cards
• Card verifiable certificate – a format for digital certificates usable by smart cards
• Chronic venous congestion
• Central venous catheter or central line
• The CVC theorem prover
• Current-voltage characteristic
• Contractile vacuole complex
• Chief value cotton
• Compensated Voltage Control - means to regulate output from a dynamo

Computing

• Code Verification Certificate - a x.509 PKI certificate used in cable modems to verify code images before accepting them
• Connectivity Virtual Circuit - a virtual pipe (data carried over an underlying physical connection) between an internet provider and a customer (who may also be an internet provider).

Legal

• California Vehicle Code

Linguistics

• Consonant–vowel–consonant syllable pattern
• a variationist sociolinguistics conference in Canada

URL	Year	Location
CVC 1	2007	U Toronto
CVC 2	2008	U Ottawa
CVC 3	2009	York U
CVC 4	2010	MUN
CVC 5	2011	U Vic
CVC 6	2012	McGill
CVC 7	2013	U Toronto

Business and companies

• Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners – a U.S. based private equity firm renamed Court Square Capital Partners and spun out of Citigroup in 2006
• CVC Capital Partners – a European private equity firm
• Control Video Corporation, a short-lived venture that was a predecessor of AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc)
• New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Cablevision
• Corporate Venture Capital
• The IATA code for Cleve Airport in South Australia
• CVC (Portuguese), largest tourism company in Latin America

Organizations

• Canning Vale College in Perth, Western Australia
• Central Vigilance Commission, India
• Centro Velico Caprera, Italy
• Colonial Valley Conference – a high school athletic conference in New Jersey
• Comberton Village College – in Comberton, United Kingdom
• Continental Volleyball Conference – an NCAA Division III men's volleyball conference with members along the U.S. East Coast
• County Voluntary Council – a voluntary sector infrastructure body in Wales
• Credit Valley Conservation in Southern Ontario
• Crime Victims Compensation in United States
• Canterbury Velo Club -based in Canterbury, Kent. 100km ride most Saturdays from Longport at 10:00am

Buildings

• United States Capitol Visitor Center

Music

• Codeine Velvet Club, a Scottish Alternative rock band formed in February 2009 by Lou Hickey and Jon Lawler.

Military

• Combat Vehicle Crewman, referring to persons who man armored fighting vehicles as well as their clothing and equipment.