MV

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MV may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

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

In science and technology

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

Topics referred to by the same term
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