PV

PV may refer to:

Places

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

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

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

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