MV

MV may refer to:

In transportation

 * Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names
 * MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy
 * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV)
 * Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer
 * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV)
 * Merchant vessel, ship prefix

Other organizations

 * Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization
 * Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative
 * Minnesota Vikings, an American football team
 * Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant
 * Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Places

 * Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts
 * Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV)
 * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea
 * Mountain View, a city in California, US

People

 * M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV

Biology and medicine

 * Maedi-visna, a sheep disease
 * Malvidin, an anthocyanidin
 * Measles virus
 * Mechanical ventilation
 * Minute volume, the volume of air that can be inhaled or exhaled in one minute
 * Mitral valve, a valve in the heart connecting the left atrium and left ventricle

Computing

 * mv (Unix), a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another
 * .mv, top level domain country code for the Republic of Maldives
 * MainView, a business automation software
 * Materialized view, a database object that contains the results of a query

Other uses in science and technology

 * MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000 volts, a measure of electrical potential
 * Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv
 * mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a volt, a measure of electrical potential
 * mv (mass × velocity), momentum in physics
 * Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify molar mass distribution in chemistry
 * Mesovortex, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones
 * Microwave, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing
 * MV is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband
 * M-V, Japanese space rocket
 * Machine vision

Other uses

 * MV, Roman numeral for 1005
 * Market value, the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting
 * "Moist Vagina", a song by grunge band Nirvana on their single All Apologies
 * Music video, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes
 * Meaningful vote, on Brexit
 * mezza voce ('half-voice') with subdued or moderated volume in a musical score
 * MV, an advisory label for mild violence in the United States pay television content advisory system