BV

BV, B.V., Bv, bV, or bv may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

 * Backing vocal, in music, a vocal harmony with the lead vocalist provided by one or more backing vocalists
 * Busoni-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of compositions by Ferruccio Busoni

Companies and organizations

 * Beaulieu Vineyard, a Napa Valley winery
 * Besloten vennootschap, a type of Dutch private limited liability company. Dutch for "private company", similar to the American concept of a limited liability company.
 * Bicycle Victoria, an Australian bicycle advocacy organisation
 * Black & Veatch, a U.S.-based engineering, consulting and construction company
 * Blue Panorama Airlines (IATA airline designator)
 * Bottega Veneta, a manufacturer of luxury leather goods
 * Bureau Veritas, a testing, inspection, and certification company (stock symbol BV)

Biology and medicine

 * Bacterial vaginosis, the most common cause of vaginal infection
 * Belch Vocalizations, the most common form of intra-group communication among the mountain gorilla
 * Biological value, a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body
 * Binocular vision, vision in which both eyes are used together
 * Blood vessel, part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body
 * Biovar, a rank below species often written as bv.

Mathematics and computing

 * Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism, a concept in mathematical physics to construct gauge theories
 * Bounded variation, a concept in mathematical analysis
 * Bounding volume, in computer graphics and computational geometry, a closed volume that completely contains the union of objects in the set

Other uses in science and technology

 * Bavarian B V, early German 2-4-0 type of locomotive of the Royal Bavarian State Railways
 * Bed volume, the volume of material in a vessel (e.g. of a catalyst in a vessel, or stationary phase in column chromatography)
 * Boiling vessel, equipment provided to an armoured vehicle for heating food or water (chiefly British)
 * Breakdown voltage, the minimum voltage that causes an insulator to become electrically conductive
 * Lohner B.V, a variant of the Lohner B.II military reconnaissance aircraft

Language

 * Voiced labiodental affricate (⟨b̪͡v⟩, ⟨b̪͜v⟩, or ⟨b̪v⟩), a type of consonant sound

Places

 * Bella Vista, Arkansas
 * Bouvet Island, an uninhabited South Atlantic sub-Antarctic volcanic island
 * .bv, the inactive ccTLD for Bouvet Island

Other uses

 * Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), Mary, mother of Jesus, as venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
 * Book value, in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
 * Bronze Star Medal with Valor
 * Bysshe Vanolis, pen-name of Scottish poet James Thomson