PV may refer to:

Places

* Paceville, Malta *

Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadala ...

, Mexico *

Postal village A postal village or post-village (p.v., P.V., PV or p-v) is generally a settlement that has a post office. Definition and abbreviation In North American usage, the term "post village" refers to a small community (a village) which has a post office. ...

, a settlement that has a post office

United States

* Palos Verdes Peninsula, California * Prescott Valley, Arizona * Prairie Village, Kansas

Politics

Partido Verde (disambiguation) Partido Verde is a Spanish or Portuguese language term meaning "green party" and may refer to one of the following political parties: *Green Party (Brazil) *Partido Verde Ecologista de México (Ecologist Green Party of Mexico) *Partido Verde Oxígen ...

, several political parties * Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore * Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems

Science and technology

* Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity *

Potential vorticity In fluid mechanics, potential vorticity (PV) is a quantity which is proportional to the dot product of vorticity and stratification. This quantity, following a parcel of air or water, can only be changed by diabatic or frictional processes. It i ...

, in fluid dynamics * Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves * Process variable, in control systems * Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

Biology and medicine

* Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein * Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics *

Pemphigus vulgaris Pemphigus vulgaris is a rare chronic blistering skin disease and the most common form of pemphigus. Pemphigus was derived from the Greek word ''pemphix'', meaning blister. It is classified as a type II hypersensitivity reaction in which antibodies ...

, a chronic blistering skin disease * '' Per vaginam'', through/via the vagina * Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus * Pharmacovigilance, a science of pharmaceutical products * Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio * Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body *

Pyrovalerone (Centroton, 4-Methyl-β-keto-prolintane, Thymergix, O-2371) is a psychoactive drug with stimulant effects via acting as a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI), and is used for the clinical treatment of chronic fatigue or letharg ...

, a stimulant drug

Chemistry

* Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT) *

Protecting group A protecting group or protective group is introduced into a molecule by chemical modification of a functional group to obtain chemoselectivity in a subsequent chemical reaction. It plays an important role in multistep organic synthesis. In many ...

, as Pv, Pivaloyl * Peroxide value * Perovskite (Pv), a mineral

Computing

* Page view, a metric in web analytics * Semaphore (programming), from P and V operations in semaphores restricting processes in a shared environment * Paravirtualization, a technique for the virtualization of guest operating systems in virtual machines

Mathematics

Principal value In mathematics, specifically complex analysis, the principal values of a multivalued function are the values along one chosen branch of that function, so that it is single-valued. The simplest case arises in taking the square root of a positive ...

, a single-valued function in complex analysis * Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; see Variation (game tree) * Cauchy principal value, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined * Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

Transportation

* Pasažieru vilciens, a Latvian passenger-carrying railway company * PV-1 Ventura, a World War II-era bomber and patrol aircraft * PAN Air (IATA airline designator) * Volvo PV, an automobile

Other uses

Personal vaporizer An electronic cigarette is an electronic device that simulates tobacco smoking. It consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, and a container such as a cartridge or tank. Instead of smoke, the user inhales vapor. As such ...

or electronic cigarette *

P. V. Narasimha Rao Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to Indi ...

(1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV * Point of view (literature) * Port Vale F.C., an English football club * Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music *

Prairie Vista Elementary School Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, commonly known as simply PHM, is a school district located in north-central Indiana, a region locally known as Michiana. The PHM district is located in and named for the three easternmost townships of St. ...

, Indiana, US * Present value, of money * Promotional video (disambiguation)