MV may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

* Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names *

MV Agusta MV Agusta (, full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is an Italian high end motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded by Domenico Agusta, Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of ...

, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) *

Metropolitan-Vickers Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial el ...

, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV) * Merchant vessel, ship prefix

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 The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, abou ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) *

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, a city in California, US

People

* M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV * MV (footballer), nickname of Marcos Vinicius Silvestre Gaspar (born 1998), Brazilian football forward

In science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Maedi-visna, a sheep disease * Malvidin, an anthocyanidin * Measles virus *

Mechanical ventilation Mechanical ventilation or assisted ventilation is the Medicine, medical term for using a ventilator, ventilator machine to fully or partially provide artificial ventilation. Mechanical ventilation helps move air into and out of the lungs, wit ...

* 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

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 ...

s, a measure of electrical potential * Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv * mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a

, 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 * M_V is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband * M-V, Japanese space rocket *

Machine vision Machine vision is the technology and methods used to provide image, imaging-based automation, automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance, usually in industry. Machine vision ...

Other uses

* MV,

Roman numeral Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, ea ...

for 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 music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to ...

, 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 * MV, an advisory label for mild violence in the United States pay television content advisory system {{disambig