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, 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, 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 Cee Vee is an unincorporated community in northwestern Cottle County, Texas, United States. It lies along FM 1440 northwest of the town of Paducah, the county seat of Cottle County. Its elevation is 1,880 feet (573 m), and it is lo ...

, 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, 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 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, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications * c_v, the specific heat 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, 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 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 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) 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, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV) * Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decorations