PV

PV may refer to:

Engineering

• Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight directly into electricity
• Process variable, a variable representing the current states or value of the process being controlled in a feedback control loop
• Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
• Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

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
• Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; See Variation (game tree)

Science

• Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT)
• Protecting group, as Pv, Pivaloyll
• Peroxide value
• Perovskite (Pv), a mineral
• Potential vorticity

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

Mathematics

• Principal value, a single-valued function in complex analysis
• 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

Places

• Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Paceville, Malta

United States

• Paradise Valley, Arizona
• Prescott Valley, Arizona
• Palos Verdes, California
• Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
• Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts

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

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

Other uses

• Postal village
• Personal vaporizer, also called an electronic cigarette
• Point of view (literature)
• Port Vale F.C., an English football club
• Powerviolence, a subgenre of Hardcore punk
• Prairie Vista Elementary School
• Present value of money
• Promotional Video

See also

• MDPV, a chemical
• a-PVP, a chemical