SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to:
Places and language
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
, ISO 3166-1 country code SV
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South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, an extinct state
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Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
, Norway, FIPS country code SV
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Swedish language
Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countr ...
, ISO 639-1 language code sv
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Silicon Valley, a region in northern California noted for high tech and social media companies (e.g.,
Apple Inc.,
Google,
Facebook)
Science and technology
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Sensitivity priority, or Sv (for "sensitivity value"), a camera setting
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Sievert, symbol Sv, a unit of ionizing radiation dose
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Starting variable
In cryptography, an initialization vector (IV) or starting variable (SV) is an input to a cryptographic primitive being used to provide the initial state. The IV is typically required to be random or pseudorandom, but sometimes an IV only needs to ...
, or initialization vector, in cryptography
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Stroke volume
In cardiovascular physiology, stroke volume (SV) is the volume of blood pumped from the left ventricle per beat. Stroke volume is calculated using measurements of ventricle volumes from an echocardiogram and subtracting the volume of the blood i ...
, in cardiovascular physiology
* .sv, a filename extension of
SystemVerilog files
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.sv
.sv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for El Salvador.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has a bug in its Swedish version where .sv is used instead of .se
.se, formerly branded as .SE, is the Internet
The Interne ...
, the Internet country code top-level domain for El Salvador
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Svedberg unit, symbol S or Sv, a non-metric unit for sedimentation coefficient
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Sverdrup, symbol Sv, a non-SI unit of flow
Sport
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Save (baseball), abbreviated SV
* ''Sportverein'' ('sports club'), for example
Hamburger SV
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Save percentage, SV%, a statistic in many sports
Vehicles
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MG XPower SV, a sports car by MG Rover
* ''Super veloce'', a variety of Lamborghini car such as the
Lamborghini Aventador SV
The Lamborghini Aventador () is a mid-engine design, mid-engine sportscar produced by the Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini. In keeping with Lamborghini tradition, the Aventador is named after a Spanish Spanish-style bullfighting, figh ...
,
Lamborghini Murcielago SV,
Lamborghini Diablo SV, or
Lamborghini Miura SV
* The
S-V
The S-V (pronounced "S-five") was the third stage of the Saturn I rocket. It was built by Convair. It was designed to use two RL-10A-1 engines fueled by liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) in tanks utilizing a common bulkhead to separat ...
stage used on the
Saturn I rocket during the
Apollo program
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Name prefix of ships SV or S/V for
sailing vessel
Other uses
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ESP SV, a series of electric guitars produced by ESP
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''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet'', ''Pokémon'' video games released in 2022
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Saudia
Saudia ( ar, السعودية '), formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah. The airline's main operational base is at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. King Khalid Internati ...
, Saudi Arabian Airlines, IATA code SV
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Shareholder value
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Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the United States, a classification for television stations
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Socialist Left Party (Norway), a political party
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Slovaks Forward (''Slováci vpred''), a political party in Serbia
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sub verbo'' or ''
sub voce'', a Latin phrase, 'under the word/heading'
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Stattkus-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of the musical works of Claudio Monteverdi
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Supplementary vote, an electoral system
See also
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