AV, Av or A.V. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* The abbreviation of

audiovisual Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions. Audiovisual service provide ...

, possessing both a sound and a visual component * ''A.V.'' (film), a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Pang Ho-Cheung * Adult video, an alternative name/synonym of a

pornographic film Pornographic films (pornos), erotic films, adult films, blue films, sexually explicit films, or 18+ films, are films that represent Human sexual activity, sexually WIKT:explicit, explicit subject matter in order to sexual arousal, arouse, fasci ...

* ''

AV The Hunt ''AV: The Hunt'', also known as ''AV'' and also stylized as ''Av The Hunt'', is a 2020 thriller film that was directed by Emre Akay. Plot Ayşe is a married woman who has been conducting an affair behind her husband's back. When this infidelity i ...

'', a 2020 Turkish thriller film directed by Emre Akay

Businesses and organizations

America Votes America Votes is a 501(c)(4) organization that aims "to coordinate and promote progressive issues." America Votes leads national and state-based coalitions to advance progressive policies and increase voter turnout for Democratic Party candidat ...

, an American 501(c)4 organization that promotes progressive causes *

Ambulance Victoria Ambulance Victoria (AV), a Victorian agency of the Department of Health, is the statutory provider of pre-hospital emergency care and ambulance services in Victoria. Ambulance Victoria was formed on 1 July 2008 with the merger of the Metrop ...

, an ambulance service operated in the Australian state of Victoria * Anonymous for the Voiceless, a grassroots animal rights organization specializing in street activism *

Aston Villa F.C. Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional Association football, football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English foot ...

, an English professional football club * AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing (''now''

OmniScriptum Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publ ...

) *

Avaya Avaya LLC(), formerly Avaya Inc., is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, that provides cloud communications and workstream collaboration services. The company's platform includes unified commun ...

, a technology company formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol "AV" *

Avianca Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for ''Aerovias de Colombia S.A.'', "Airways of Colombia", and stylized as avianca since October 2023) is the largest airline in Colombia. It has been the flag carrier of Colombia since December 5, 1919, when it ...

(IATA airline code AV) *

Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 19 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...

, British insurance company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange as "AV" *

AeroVironment AeroVironment, Inc. is an American Arms industry, defense contractor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Paul MacCready, Paul B. MacCready Jr., a designer of human-powered aircraft, ...

, manufacturer of unmanned military aircraft and systems * Amusement Vision, the former name of

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio , doing business as , is a Japanese video game developer and a division of Sega. It is known for developing the games in the ''Yakuza (franchise), Like a Dragon'' series, which the studio is named after, since ''Yakuza 5'' and the Super Monkey B ...

People

* Av or

Avrum Gross Avrum M. Gross (February 25, 1936 – May 8, 2018) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of Alaska from 1974 through 1980. Early life and education Gross was born on February 25, 1936, in New York City. He was raised in S ...

(1936–2018), American lawyer and Attorney General of Alaska * Av or

Avrom Isaacs Avrom Isaacs, D.F.A. (March 19, 1926 – January 15, 2016) was a Canadian art dealer and tastemaker. Career Avrom Isaacovitch, known as Av Isaacs, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and moved to Toronto with his family in 1941. Isaacs graduated ...

(1926–2016), Canadian art dealer *

Av Westin Avram Westin (July 29, 1929 – March 12, 2022) was an American television producer. Westin began his career as a copy boy at CBS Radio News in 1947. He moved to CBS Television News in 1953, where he went on to co-create the CBS Morning News with ...

(1929–2022), American television producer *

Arun Vijay Arun Vijay (born 19 November 1977), formerly known as Arun Kumar, is an Indian actor who works primarily in Tamil cinema. He also starred in a few films in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. Born as Arun Kumar and being the only son of veteran actor ...

(born 1977), Indian actor *

AV Prafullachandra AV Prafullachandra is an Indian music composer who primarily works in Marathi films. He began his career with ''Photocopy'' (2016) and composed the music for popular films like '' Dhurala'' (2020), ''Godavari The Godavari (, �od̪aːʋ� ...

, Indian music composer

Places

Anguilla Anguilla is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Sa ...

(FIPS country code and obsolete NATO diagram AV) *

Antelope Valley The Antelope Valley is a valley primarily located in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, Kern County, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated ...

, a valley in Southern California *

Province of Avellino The province of Avellino () is a province in the Campania Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea ...

, a province of Italy

Science and technology

Anatomy and medicine

Aerobic vaginitis Aerobic vaginitis (AV) is a form of vaginitis first described by Donders et al. in 2002. It is characterized by a more or less severe disruption of the lactobacillary flora, along with inflammation, atrophy, and the presence of a predominantly a ...

, vaginal infection associated with overgrowth of aerobic bacteria *

Arteriovenous (disambiguation) Arteriovenous refers to relations between arteries and veins, such as: *Arteriovenous malformation *Arteriovenous fistula *Arteriovenous oxygen difference The arteriovenous oxygen difference, or a-vO2 diff, is the difference in the oxygen content o ...

Atrioventricular (disambiguation) Atrioventricular (having to do with an atrium and ventricle) can refer to: * Left atrioventricular opening * Atrioventricular fistula *Atrioventricular node *Atrioventricular valves A heart valve is a biological one-way valve that allows blood t ...

Electronics and computing

Access violation In computing, a segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or access violation is a Interrupt, failure condition raised by hardware with memory protection, notifying an operating system (OS) the software has attempted to access a restricted ...

, a computer software error *

Age verification An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is any technical system that externally verifies a person's age. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classified, either voluntarily or by local laws, as being inappr ...

, system for checking a user's age *

Antivirus software Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name ...

, used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software *

Audio and video connector Audio connectors and video connectors are electrical or optical connectors for carrying audio or video signals. Audio interfaces or video interfaces define physical parameters and interpretation of signals. Some connectors and interfaces carry ...

, a cable between two devices *

Analog video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

AV Linux AV Linux is a Linux distribution focused on multimedia content creation. Environment Versions 6 and earlier were 32-bit only, running a 32-bit Linux kernel with the IRQ threading and rtirq-init patches activated by default. For computers wit ...

, a Linux-based operating system

Fluid dynamics

Annular velocity Annular velocity is the speed of the drilling fluid's movement in a column called an annulus in oil wells.Annulus (mathematics) It is commonly measured in feet per minute (ft/min) or meters per minute (m/min). Annular velocity is often abbreviate ...

, speed of the drilling fluid's movement in a column called an annulus in oil wells *

Apparent viscosity In fluid mechanics, apparent viscosity (sometimes denoted ) is the shear stress applied to a fluid divided by the shear rate: :\eta = \frac For a Newtonian fluid, the apparent viscosity is constant, and equal to the Newtonian viscosity of the ...

, shear stress divided by shear rate

Vehicles

* AV (cyclecar), a British cyclecar manufactured between 1919 and 1924 *

Bavarian A V Bavarian A V engines were 2-2-2 steam locomotives in service with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn''). They were the last of the single-coupled locomotives built in Bavaria.Günther Scheingraber: ''Die Königl ...

, an 1853 steam locomotive model * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Seaplane tender (AV) *

Autonomous vehicles Vehicular automation is using technology to assist or replace the operator of a vehicle such as a car, truck, aircraft, rocket, military vehicle, or boat. Assisted vehicles are ''semi-autonomous'', whereas vehicles that can travel without a ...

Other uses in science and technology

A-type main-sequence star An A-type main-sequence star (A) or A dwarf star is a main-sequence (hydrogen burning) star of spectral type A and luminosity class (five). These stars have spectra defined by strong hydrogen Balmer absorption lines. They measure between 1 ...

, in astronomy, abbreviated A V * Aperture value mode, setting on photo cameras that allows to choose a specific aperture value

Other uses

Alternative vote Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where one or more eliminations are used to simulate runoff elections. When no candidate has a ...

, an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates *

Approval voting Approval voting is a single-winner rated voting system where voters can approve of all the candidates as they like instead of Plurality voting, choosing one. The method is designed to eliminate vote-splitting while keeping election administration ...

, a non-ranking vote system * Authorised Version of the Bible (also known as King James Version) *

Av (month) Av (also Menachem Av, ) is the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days, and usually occurs in July–August on the Gregorian calendar. The Babylonian Talmu ...

, a month in the Hebrew calendar * av, the

Avar language Avar (, , "language of the mountains" or , , "Avar language"), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language of the Avar–Andic languages, Avar–Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars (Caucasus), Av ...

's ISO 639-1 code * Av. or Ave, an abbreviation for

Avenue (landscape) In landscaping, an avenue (from the French language, French), alameda (from the Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running ...

* or AV from Latin ''aurum'' (''avrvm''), a numismatic abbreviation for "gold" * A.V., the putative mark of ''ébéniste'' Adam Weisweiler *

Aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' include fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as h ...

, abbreviated Av in military use * Andhra Vidyalaya College, aka A. V. College, a school in Hyderabad, India