Civ or CIV may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* CIV (band), a punk rock music band * Civ (imprint), an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content * ''Civilization'' (1980 board game) * ''Civilization'' (series) or ''Civ'', a series of computer games

Physics

* Corona inception voltage, see

corona discharge A corona discharge is an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage. It represents a local region where the air (or other fluid) has undergone electrical breakdown ...

Critical ionization velocity Critical ionization velocity (CIV), or critical velocity (CV), is the relative velocity between a neutral gas and plasma (an ionized gas), at which the neutral gas will start to ionize. If more energy is supplied, the velocity of the atoms or mole ...

, a plasma phenomenon in physics

Other uses

* Civ., an abbreviation for '

civil Civil may refer to: *Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights *Civil disobedience *Civil engineering *Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a membe ...

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Civilian Civilians under international humanitarian law are "persons who are not members of the armed forces" and they are not "combatants if they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war". It is slightly different from a non-combatant, b ...

104 (number) 104 (one hundred ndfour) is the natural number following 103 and preceding 105. In mathematics 104 is a primitive semiperfect number and a composite number, with its divisors being 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 26, 52 and 104. As it has 8 divisors total, ...

, or ''CIV'' in Roman numerals * CIV (rail travel), International Convention for the transportation of Passengers (French: ''Convention Internationale pour le transport des Voyageurs'') * " Caritas in Veritate", Pope Benedict XVI's social encyclical *

City of London Imperial Volunteers The City of London Imperial Volunteers (CIV) was a British corps of volunteers during the Second Boer War. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, volunteer corps were established in most counties of the United Kingdom to prov ...

, a British corps of volunteers during the Second Boer War *

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

(officially Côte d'Ivoire), a country in West Africa

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