PV

PV may refer to:

Places

 * Paceville, Malta
 * Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
 * Postal village, a settlement that has a post office

United States

 * Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
 * Prescott Valley, Arizona
 * Prairie Village, Kansas

Politics

 * Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
 * Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore
 * Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems

Science and technology

 * Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity
 * Potential vorticity, in fluid dynamics
 * Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
 * Process variable, in control systems
 * Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

Biology and medicine

 * Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein
 * Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics
 * Pemphigus vulgaris, a chronic blistering skin disease
 * Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
 * Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
 * Pharmacovigilance, a science of pharmaceutical products
 * Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio
 * Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
 * Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug

Chemistry

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

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

Mathematics

 * Principal value, a single-valued function in complex analysis
 * Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; see Variation (game tree)
 * Cauchy principal value, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined
 * Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

Transportation

 * Pallavaram railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Southern Railway station code)
 * 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, an automobile

Other uses

 * Personal vaporizer or electronic cigarette
 * P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV
 * Point of view (literature)
 * Port Vale F.C., an English football club
 * Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
 * Prairie Vista Elementary School, Indiana, US
 * Present value, of money
 * Promotional video (disambiguation)