LAV

LAV or Lav may refer to:

Persons

 * Lav, an alternative name for Lava (Ramayana), a son of the Hindu deity Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is told in the Ramayana
 * Lav, translation in some Slavic languages of the name Lev
 * Luis Antonio Valencia, Manchester United winger
 * Lav (singer), the stage name of American singer-songwriter Kalea Little.

Science and technology

 * Lavalier microphone, a small microphone with a clip for attaching to clothing
 * software packages for encoding and decoding video and audio files:
 * LAV Filters, a set of open-source DirectShow filters based on FFmpeg
 * Libav, a free software project forked from FFmpeg
 * libavcodec, an audio/video codec library provided by FFmpeg and Libav
 * Live Attenuated vaccine, a vaccine with weakened but still living pathogen
 * Load average, the average of Load (computing)
 * Local As View, a view-based query answering approach to data integration
 * Lymphadenopathy-associated virus, a former name for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

Vehicles

 * Leisure activity vehicle, a car classification
 * Light Armored Vehicle, another term for armored car (military)
 * LAV (armored vehicle), series of armored vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems, Canada
 * LAV I, or Armored Vehicle General Purpose 6x6
 * LAV II, 8x8 vehicle
 * LAV-25, used by the United States Marine Corps
 * LAV III, 8x8 vehicle
 * LAV 6, modernization of the LAV III
 * Cadillac Cage light armored vehicles:
 * Commando V-150 sometimes referred to as the LAV-150
 * Commando V-200 sometimes referred to as the LAV-200
 * LAV-300
 * LAV-600
 * Komatsu LAV, a Japanese armored car, unrelated to the Canadian LAV

Transportation

 * Laverton railway station, Melbourne
 * Línea Aeropostal Venezolana, an airline of Venezuela
 * Líneas de Alta Velocidad, Spanish high-speed railway lines
 * Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line
 * Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line
 * Madrid–León high-speed rail line
 * Madrid–Levante high-speed rail network
 * Córdoba–Málaga high-speed rail line
 * Antequera–Granada high-speed rail line

Other uses

 * Latvian language (ISO 639-2 & 3 code LAV)
 * Lav, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
 * Lav pivo, a beer brand in Serbia
 * The Last American Virgin, a 1982 film
 * Let America Vote, a political action organization fighting voter suppression