List of acronyms: V

(Main list of acronyms)


 * V – (s) 5 (in Roman numerals) - Vanadium – Volt

VA

 * VA – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) – (s) Virginia (postal symbol) – (i) Various Artists
 * VACIS – (a) Vehicle And Container Inspection System
 * VACIS – (a) Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
 * VACUUM - (a) Valid Accurate Consistent Uniform Unified Model
 * VANOS – (p) Variable Nockenwelle System
 * VAO – (i) Vienna Art Orchestra
 * VASIS – (a) Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation)
 * VAT – (i) Value-Added Tax – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)

VB

 * VB – (i) Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic
 * VBA – (i) Visual Basic for Applications

VC

 * VC – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Victoria Cross
 * VCDS – (i) (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff – (i) VAG-COM Diagnostic System
 * vCJD – (i) Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
 * VCJCS – (i) Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
 * VCNO – (i) (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
 * VCR – (i) Video cassette recorder
 * VCofS – (i) Vice Chief of Staff
 * VCT – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)

VD

 * VD – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977) – (i) Venereal Disease
 * VDFS - (i) VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
 * VDMOS – (i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss")
 * VDOT – (i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot")
 * VDR – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)

VE

 * ve – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * VE – (s) Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 * VEB – (s) Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * VEEGA – (a) Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
 * ven – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
 * VEN – (s) Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * VERDI – (i) Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy)
 * VERITAS – (a) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

VF

 * VF - (i) VinFast (Vietnamese automobile brand)
 * VFA
 * (i) Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league)
 * (i) Volatile Fatty Acid
 * (s) Fixed-wing Strike Fighter Squadron (U.S Naval Aviation squadron type)
 * VfD – (i) Articles for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
 * VFL – (i) Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:
 * The original VFL, formed when the original VFA split in 1896, evolved into today's Australian Football League.
 * The modern VFL, which operates to this day as a semi-professional developmental league for the AFL, is the successor to the VFA.


 * VFM – (i) Value For Money
 * VFMO – (i) Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
 * VFR – (i) Visual Flight Rules
 * VFT – (i) Virtual Function Table
 * VFW – (i) Veterans of Foreign Wars

VG

 * VG – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
 * VGB – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

VH

 * VH1 – (a/i) Video Hits One
 * VHF – (i) Very High Frequency

VI

 * vi – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * VI – (s) 6 (in Roman numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – United States Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) vide infra (Latin, "see below") – Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW)
 * VIA – (a) Versatile Interface Adapter
 * VIC – (s) Victoria, Australia (postal symbol) – (a) Video Interface Chip – Virginia Intermont College
 * VIDS – (i) Visual Information Display System
 * vie – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
 * VII – (s) 7 (in Roman numerals)
 * VIII – (s) 8 (in Roman numerals)
 * VIN – (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
 * VIP – (i) see entry
 * VIR – (s) United States Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) – Virgin Atlantic (ICAO code)
 * VIS – (i) Vavoua International School – Vienna Independent Shorts – Viewable Image Size – Visual Instruction Set
 * VISCII – (p) VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
 * VIT – (i) Vellore Institute of Technology
 * VIVO – (i) Video In Video Out

VJ

 * VJ – (i) Video Jockey

VK

 * VK – (s) Australia (ham radio code) – (i) Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper

VL

 * VLA – (i) Very Large Array – (UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
 * VLAD – (a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
 * VLBA – (i) Very Long Baseline Array
 * VLF – (i) Very Low Frequency
 * VLIW – (i) Very Long Instruction Word
 * VLPFC – (i) VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
 * VLPMC – (i) VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
 * VLSF – (i) Very Loud, Stink-Free
 * VLSI – (i) Very-large-scale integration
 * VLVS – (i) Very Loud, Very Stinky

VM

 * VM – (s) Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
 * VMASC – (i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask")
 * VMF – (i) Variable Message Format
 * VMF – Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
 * VMN – (p) VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)

VN

 * VN
 * (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
 * Vietnam Airlines (IATA code)
 * Vietnam's aircraft registration prefix
 * VND – (s) Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * VNIR – (i) Visible and Near InfraRed
 * VNM – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * VNS – see entry
 * VNV M/C USA – (a) Viet Nam Vet's Motorcycle Club USA

VO

 * VOA – (a) Voice of America
 * vo – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * VOC – (i) Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) – Volatile organic compounds
 * VOIP – (a) Voice Over Internet Protocol
 * vol – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
 * VOLT – (a) Visual OpenType Layout Tool
 * Volvo – (p) Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles owned by Ford Motor Company. "Volvo" means "I roll" in Latin.
 * VON – (i) Victorian Order of Nurses
 * VOR – (i) VHF Omnidirectional Ranging
 * VOR – (a) Voice of Russia
 * VOV - (i) Voice of Vietnam
 * VOX – (p) Voice Operated eXchange (Voice-operated oscillator)

VP

 * VP – (a/i) Vice-president ("veep")
 * VPN – (i) Virtual private network

VQ

 * VQ
 * (i) Vector quantization
 * (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
 * Aircraft registration prefix for Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Saint Helena and Turks and Caicos.

VR

 * VR – (i) Virtual reality
 * VROTS – (i) Victorian rare or threatened species
 * VRSG – (i) Virtual reality scene generator
 * V/R - (i) Very respectfully; standard military closure

VS

 * VS – (i) Very special (brandy grade) – vide supra (Latin, "see above")
 * VSAT – (a) Very small aperture terminal ("vee-satt")
 * VSHORAD – (p) Very short range air defence
 * VSO – (i) Voluntary Services Overseas
 * VSOP – (i) Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French, "Planetary Orbit Secular Variations") – Very small outline package (integrated circuit) – Very superior old pale (brandy grade) – VLBI Space Observatory Programme
 * VSR – (i) Very special relativity
 * V/STOL – (p) Vertical/short take-off and landing ("vee-stoll")

VT

 * VT
 * (s) Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code)
 * Vermont (postal symbol)
 * (i) Video tape
 * Virginia Tech
 * VTC – (i) Video Tele-Conference
 * VTEC – (i) Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
 * VTOL – (i) Vertical Take-Off & Landing

VU

 * VU – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Vedanta University
 * VUB – (i) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
 * VUK – (a) Value Up Kit
 * VUT – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * VUV – (s) Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)

VV

 * V&V – (i) Verification & Validation
 * VV – (i) Via Voice – Village Voice
 * VV&A – (i) Verification, Validation & Accreditation
 * VVAF – (i) Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

VW

 * VW – (i) Volkswagen

VZ

 * VZ – (s) Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
 * vzw – (i) vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (Dutch "non-profit organisation")