CAV and Cav may refer to: * Cav., in botany, a designator for plants named by Antonio José Cavanilles * ''

Cavaliere The Italian honours system is a means to reward achievements or service to the Italian Republic, formerly the Kingdom of Italy including the Italian Social Republic. Orders of chivalry Italian Republic There are five orders of knighthood ...

'' or Cav., an Italian order of knighthood * ''

Cavalleria rusticana ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (; Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play b ...

'', an opera often played as a double bill with ''Pagliacci'', and then referred to as the Cav/Pag *

CAV Murcia 2005 Club Atlético Voleibol Murcia 2005, also known for sponsorship reason as ''Grupo 2002 Murcia'', was a Spanish volleyball club based in Murcia that played their home matches at the Pabellón Príncipe de Asturias in Murcia. The team participated ...

, or ''Club Atlético Voleibol'', a Spanish volleyball club * CAV Thakral Home Entertainment Co, Ltd., a Chinese DVD and CD distributor *

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a progressive type of coronary artery disease in people who have had a heart transplant. As the donor heart has lost its nerve supply there is typically no chest pain, and CAV is usually detected on routine ...

, a complication of heart transplantation *

Cazombo Airport Cazombo Airport is an airport serving the city of Cazombo in the Moxico Province of Angola. The Cazombo non-directional beacon (Ident: CZ) is on the field. See also * * * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola Transport in Angola ...

(IATA code), in Cazombo, Angola * Chicken anaemia virus, a virus that affects poultry * Clarion Municipal Airport (FAA identifier), in Clarion, Iowa * Colegio Alemán de Valencia, a German international school in Valencia, Spain * ''

Combat Assault Vehicle CAV or ''Combat Assault Vehicle'' is a miniatures wargame by Reaper Miniatures. Story ''Combat Assault Vehicle'' is named after the war machines that walk the battlefields of the galaxy. The date is 2274 and the fragile peace the galaxy has kn ...

'', a miniatures wargame *

Compressed-air vehicle A compressed-air vehicle (CAV) is a transport mechanism fueled by tanks of pressurized atmospheric gas and propelled by the release and expansion of the gas within a pneumatic motor. CAV's have found application in torpedoes, locomotives used ...

, a vehicle powered by an air engine *

Computer Aided Verification In computer science, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) is an annual academic conference on the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis of software and hardware systems, broadly known as formal methods ...

, an annual academic computer science conference *

Connected and autonomous vehicle A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car, driver-less car, or robotic car (robo-car), is a car that is capable of traveling without human input.Xie, S.; Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Ding, Z.; Arvin, F.,Distributed Motion Planning for S ...

or self-driving car *

Constant air volume Constant air volume (CAV) is a type of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning ( HVAC) system. In a simple CAV system, the supply air flow rate is constant, but the supply air temperature is varied to meet the thermal loads of a space. Most CAV ...

, a type of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system *

Constant angular velocity In optical storage, constant angular velocity (CAV) is a qualifier for the rated speed of any disc containing information, and may also be applied to the writing speed of recordable discs. A drive or disc operating in CAV mode maintains a const ...

, a qualifier for the rated speed of an optical disc drive *

Consumer Affairs Victoria Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) is a government agency that protects and promotes the interests of consumers and is based in the Australian state of Victoria. It is responsible for reviewing and advising the Victorian Government on consumer legislat ...

, a government agency in Victoria, Australia *

County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...

, Ireland, Chapman code * ''

Curia advisari vult ''Curia advisari vult'' is a Latin legal term meaning "the court wishes to consider the matter" (literally, "the court wishes to be advised"), a term reserving judgment until some subsequent day. It often appears in case reports, abbreviated as "C ...

'' or c.a.v., a Latin legal term meaning "the court wishes to be advised" *

Lucas CAV Lucas Industries plc was a Birmingham-based British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components. Once prominent, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was formerly a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In August 1996 ...

, former automotive electrical manufacturer based in Britain *

Mark Cavendish Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a Isle of Man, Manx professional Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . As a Track cycling, track cyclist he specialises in the Madison (cycling), madison, po ...

, British cyclist *

X-41 Common Aero Vehicle __NOTOC__ X-41 is the designation, initiated in 2003, for a still-classified United States military spaceplane. The X-41 is now part of the FALCON (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States) program sponsored by DARPA and NASA. ...

, a classified U.S. military space plane