HV or Hv may refer to:

Places

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

(WMO country code HV, from the former French name, "Haute Volta" -- Upper Volta) *

Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley or Hudson River Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The region stretches from the Capital District (New York), Capital District includi ...

, New York State, USA

Groups, companies, organizations

Transavia Transavia Airlines C.V., trading as Transavia and formerly branded as ''transavia.com'', is a Dutch low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of KLM and therefore part of the Air France–KLM group. Its main base is Amsterdam Airport Sch ...

(IATA airline code HV) * Hendrik Vermeulen, a South African fashion label

Military units

* Heimevernet, a Norwegian military force *

Hemvärnet The Home Guard – National Security Forces () is a military reserve force of the Swedish Armed Forces. It was formally established on May 29, 1940, during World War II upon popular demand. While originally composed of former militia groups, tod ...

, a Swedish military force * Hrvatska Vojska, the Croatian army * , the Danish home guard

Electronics and electrics

High voltage High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage. In certain industries, ''high voltage'' refers to voltage above a certain threshold. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant sp ...

, in electricity distribution * hecto

volt The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, Voltage#Galvani potential vs. electrochemical potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units, International System of Uni ...

(hV), a unit of 100 volts *

Hasselblad HV The Sony Alpha 99 was announced by Sony on September 12, 2012. It was the flagship Sony Digital single-lens reflex camera, DSLR camera and of the Sony SLT camera, Sony Alpha SLT line until late 2016 when it was replaced by the Sony α99 II. It f ...

, a digital system camera based on the Sony α SLT-A99V *

Home video Home video is recorded media sold or Video rental shop, rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD and Blu-ray. ...

, pre-recorded media for home entertainment

Transportation

* High Volume, a term often used for

kayak ] A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle. The word ''kayak'' originates from the Inuktitut word '' qajaq'' (). In British English, the kayak is also considered to be ...

sizes *

Hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle is one that uses two or more distinct types of power, such as submarines that use diesel when surfaced and batteries when submerged. Other means to store energy include pressurized fluid in hydraulic hybrids. Hybrid powertrai ...

s, which use two or more distinct types of power *

Hydrogen vehicle A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen to move. Hydrogen vehicles include some road vehicles, rail vehicles, space rockets, forklifts, ships and aircraft. Motive power is generated by converting the chemical energy of hydrogen to me ...

, powered by hydrogen

Science and technology

* Absolute visual magnitude, or V-band magnitude, H_V * Mitochondrial DNA

Haplogroup HV Haplogroup HV is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. Origin Haplogroup HV derives from the haplogroup R0, which in turn descends from haplogroup R. HV is also the ancestral clade to the haplogroups H and V. A possible origin of HV ha ...

Hypervelocity star In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the Observational astronomy, observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses the measurement of stellar Velocity, velocities in the Milky ...

, an astronomical object or as a designation of such in a star catalogue * hν, light, in chemistry shorthand *

Vickers Hardness The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1921 by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials. The Vickers test is often easier to use than other hardness ...

, a hardness test

Other uses

Holcomb Valley Scout Ranch Located in Los Angeles County, California's San Gabriel Valley, the Boy Scouts of America's San Gabriel Valley Council (#40) was one of five councils serving Los Angeles County. It was headquartered in Pasadena. Greater Los Angeles Area Council ...

Holiday village A holiday village (abbreviated HV) is a holiday resort where the visitors stay in villas. There is a central area with shops, entertainment, and other amenities.Stanisław Pietkiewicz, Stefan Żmuda: ''Słownik pojęć geograficznych''. Warsaw ...

, a holiday resort where the visitors stay in villas *

Hwair Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic alphabet, Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English language, English by the inverted ''Wh (digraph), wh''-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) ...

(), a Gothic letter, called ''hv'' in Unicode * ''

Humanae vitae (Latin, meaning 'Of Human Life') is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and dated 25 July 1968. The text was issued at a Vatican press conference on 29 July. Subtitled ''On the Regulation of Birth'', it re-affirmed the teaching of the Catho ...

'', a papal encyclical * High Valyrian, a fictional language used in the ''Song of Ice and Fire'' series by David J. Peterson