CV, Cv, or cv may refer to: *

Curriculum vitae In English, a 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; 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 Producciones Cinevisión was a Colombia, Colombian ''programadora''. It was founded in 1968 and liquidated in 1996, returned in 1999 and was liquidated again in 2008. History Early years Jorge Arenas Lemus founded what was then known as CV-TV in ...

, formerly CV-TV, a Colombian

Businesses and organisations

Cargolux Cargolux, legally ''Cargolux Airlines International S.A.'', is a Luxembourgian flag carrier cargo airline with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg Airport. With a global network, it is one of the largest scheduled all-cargo airlines in Europe ...

(IATA designator CV) *

Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen The Union of Catholic German Student Fraternities (german: Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen or ''Cartellverband'' (CV)) is a German umbrella organization of Catholic male student fraternities (Studentenverbindung). ...

, a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities *

Central Vermont Railway The Central Vermont Railway was a railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec. It connected Montreal, Quebec, with New London, Connect ...

, 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 A voltage source is a two-terminal device which can maintain a fixed voltage. An ideal voltage source can maintain the fixed voltage independent of the load resistance or the output current. However, a real-world voltage source cannot supply unli ...

, electrical description *

CV/Gate CV/gate (an abbreviation of ''control voltage/gate'') is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines, and similar equipment with external sequencers. The control voltage typically controls pitch and the gate signal controls not ...

, 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 In neuroscience, nerve conduction velocity (CV) is an important aspect of nerve conduction studies. It is the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway. Conduction velocities are affected by a wide array of factors ...

, 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 In astronomy, cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state. They were initially called novae (), since ones with an outburst brightness visible to ...

, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness *

Coefficient of variation In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV), also known as relative standard deviation (RSD), is a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution. It is often expressed as ...

, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution *

Compensating variation In economics, compensating variation (CV) is a measure of utility change introduced by John Hicks (1939). 'Compensating variation' refers to the amount of additional money an agent would need to reach their initial utility after a change in prices, ...

, an economic concept of compensation for a price change *

Constant-velocity joint Constant-velocity joints (also known as homokinetic or CV joints) are mechanical joints which allow a drive shaft to transmit power through a variable angle, at constant rotational speed, without an appreciable increase in friction or Backlash (e ...

, or CV-joint *

Control volume In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models of physical processes. In an inertial frame of reference, it is a fictitious region of a given v ...

, a presumed volume for analysing the thermodynamic state of a system * Consonantvowel, an open-

syllable A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "bu ...

pattern in linguistics *

Cultivated variety A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...

or cultivar, once commonly abbreviated ''cv.'', now officially deprecated but widely used and recommended *

Cyclic voltammetry Cyclic voltammetry (CV) is a type of potentiodynamic electrochemical measurement. In a cyclic voltammetry experiment, the working electrode potential is ramped linearly versus time. Unlike in linear sweep voltammetry, after the set potential is re ...

, an electrochemical way of measuring * Chemical formula of

vanadium carbide Vanadium carbide is the inorganic compound with the formula V C. It is an extremely hard refractory ceramic material. With a hardness of 9-9.5 Mohs, it is possibly the hardest metal-carbide known. It is of interest because it is prevalent in va ...

Other uses

CV (tax horsepower) The tax horsepower or taxable horsepower was an early system by which taxation rates for automobiles were reckoned in some European countries such as Britain, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy; some US states like Illinois charged license plate pu ...

, a French and Italian system of car taxation * CV, the

Hull classification symbol The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...

for aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy *

105 (number) 105 (one hundred ndfive) is the natural number following 104 and preceding 106. In mathematics 105 is a triangular number, a dodecagonal number, and the first Zeisel number. It is the first odd sphenic number and is the product of three consecu ...

, Roman numerals representation of CV *

Chuvash language Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one of the two principal branches of the Turk ...

, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV) *

Cross of Valour (disambiguation) The Cross of Valour may refer to one of a number of decorations: * Cross for Military Valour, a French military award * Cross of Valour (Australia), Australia's highest civil award * Cross of Valour (Canada), Canada's highest civil award * Cross of ...

, various decorations