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MV may refer to:


Businesses and organizations


In transportation

* Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names * MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) * Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV)


Other organizations

* Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization * Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative * Minnesota Vikings, an American football team * Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant * Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Places

* Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts * Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, California, Mountain View, a city in California, US


People

* M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV


In science and technology


Biology and medicine

* Maedi-visna, a sheep disease * Malvidin, an anthocyanidin * Measles virus * Mechanical ventilation * Minute volume, the volume of air that can be inhaled or exhaled in one minute * Mitral valve, a valve in the heart connecting the left atrium and left ventricle


Computing

* mv (Unix), a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another * .mv, top level domain country code for the Republic of Maldives * MainView, a business automation software * Materialized view, a database object that contains the results of a query


Other uses in science and technology

* MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000 volts, a measure of electrical potential * Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv * mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a volt, a measure of electrical potential * mv (''mass × velocity''), momentum in physics * Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify molar mass distribution in chemistry * Mesovortex, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones * Microwave, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing * MV is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband * M-V, Japanese space rocket


Other uses

* MV, Roman numeral for 1005 (number), 1005 * Market value, the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting * "Moist Vagina", a song by grunge band Nirvana on their single ''All Apologies'' * Music video, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes * Meaningful vote, on Brexit * ''mezza voce'' ('half-voice') with subdued or moderated volume in a musical score {{disambig