Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''CV'' (novel), a novel by Damon Knight * Character voice, or CV; see

voice acting in Japan Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs. In Japan, and a ...

CV Network CV, Cv, or cv may refer to: *Curriculum vitae, a summary of academic and professional history and achievements CV, Cv, or cv may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''CV'' (novel), a novel by Damon Knight * Character voice, or CV; ...

, a defunct Spanish-language television network in the United States * Producciones Cinevisión, formerly CV-TV, a Colombian

Businesses and organisations

* Cargolux (IATA designator CV) * Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen, a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities * Central Vermont Railway, a railway that operated in the New England states *

Christian Voice (UK) Christian Voice (CV) is a fundamentalist Christian advocacy group based in the United Kingdom. Its stated objective is "to uphold Christianity as the Faith of the United Kingdom, to be a voice for Biblical values in law and public policy, an ...

Comando Vermelho Comando Vermelho (, ''Red Command'' or ''Red Commando''), also known as C.V. is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnappings-for-ransom, armored truck hijacking ...

, a Brazilian criminal organization *

Conversio Virium Conversio Virium (CV), one of the oldest university student-run BDSM education groups in the United States, is the central Columbia University student organization that represents the college's collective population who engage in consensual BDSM an ...

, an education group of Columbia University

Places

.cv .cv is the country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to c ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde * Cee Vee, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States *

CV postcode area The CV postcode area, also known as the Coventry postcode area, is a group of 24 postcode districts in central England, within eleven post towns. These cover the eastern part of the West Midlands county (including Coventry), most of Warwickshire ...

, in the United Kingdom

Science, technology, and mathematics

Electronics and computing

Capacitance voltage profiling Capacitance is the capability of a material object or device to store electric charge. It is measured by the change in charge in response to a difference in electric potential, expressed as the ratio of those quantities. Commonly recognized are ...

, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices *

Computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

, methods of extracting information and meaning from images and video * Constant voltage source, electrical description * CV/Gate, a control voltage and gate solution

Medicine

Contractile vacuole A contractile vacuole (CV) is a sub-cellular structure (organelle) involved in osmoregulation. It is found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae. It was previously known as pulsatile or pulsating vacuole. Overview The contractile va ...

, an organelle found in some cells *

Coronavirus Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the com ...

, a type of virus, notably: **

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the respiratory illness responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had a No ...

, the virus causing the 2019–2020 outbreak **

Coronavirus disease 2019 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly ...

(COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus **

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, the ongoing pandemic * Conduction velocity, the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* C_v, the

flow coefficient The flow coefficient of a device is a relative measure of its efficiency at allowing fluid flow. It describes the relationship between the pressure drop across an orifice valve or other assembly and the corresponding flow rate. Mathematically the ...

, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications * c_v, the

specific heat In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol ) of a substance is the heat capacity of a sample of the substance divided by the mass of the sample, also sometimes referred to as massic heat capacity. Informally, it is the amount of heat t ...

of a material at constant volume *

Calorific value The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it. The ''calorific value'' is the total energy rele ...

, the amount of heat released during the combustion of a substance * Cataclysmic variable star, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness * Coefficient of variation, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution * Compensating variation, an economic concept of compensation for a price change * Constant-velocity joint, or CV-joint * Control volume, a presumed volume for analysing the thermodynamic state of a system * Consonantvowel, an open-syllable pattern in linguistics * Cultivated variety or cultivar, once commonly abbreviated ''cv.'', now officially deprecated but widely used and recommended * Cyclic voltammetry, an electrochemical way of measuring * Chemical formula of vanadium carbide

Other uses

* CV (tax horsepower), a French and Italian system of car taxation * CV, the Hull classification symbol for aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy * 105 (number), Roman numerals representation of CV * Chuvash language, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV) * Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decorations