PAV or Pav can stand for:
Science and technology
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Personal Air Vehicle
A personal air vehicle (PAV) is a proposed type of aircraft providing on-demand aviation services.
The emergence of this alternative to traditional ground transport methods has been enabled by unmanned aerial vehicle technologies and electric pr ...
, a type of aircraft
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Parallel Access Volumes
In IBM mainframe operating systems from the OS/360 and successors line, a Unit Control Block (UCB) is a memory structure, or a ''control block'', that describes any single input/output peripheral device (''unit''), or an ''exposure'' (alias), ...
, a feature in CPUs
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Parental Age Verification
An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is a technical protection measure used to restrict access to digital content from those who are not appropriately-aged. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classifie ...
, a type of age verification
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Air suction valve
An air suction valve (SAV) is a subsystem used to reduce emissions in the exhaust gases of internal combustion engines.
Working principle
When an engine exhaust valve is open, the pressure in the exhaust manifold is higher than atmospheric pressu ...
: also known as a PAV, Pulsed Air Valve
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Pavo (constellation) (standard astronomical abbreviation)
Food
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Pavlova (food), a meringue-based dessert from Australia and New Zealand
* Pav, a type of Indian
bread roll
Voting
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Proportional approval voting
Proportional approval voting (PAV) is a proportional electoral system for selecting committees. It is an extension of the D'Hondt method of apportionment that additionally allows for personal votes (voters vote for candidates, not for a party ...
, an electoral system
* Permanent
absentee voting, another electoral system
People
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Matthew Pavlich (born 1981), Australian rules footballer; games record holder and former captain of the Fremantle Football Club
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Roman Pavlyuchenko (born 1981), Association footballer, a Russian international currently playing for FC Lokomotiv Moscow
* ''Pav.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of
José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754 in Casatejada, Cáceres, Spain – 1840 in Madrid) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile.
During the reign of Charles III of Spain, thre ...
(1754–1840), Spanish botanist
See also
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Pave (disambiguation)
PAVE is a United States Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems. Prior to 1979, Pave was said to be a code word for the Air Force unit responsible for the project. ''Pave'' was used as an inconsequential prefix identifier for ...
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Pau (disambiguation)
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Pao (disambiguation)
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