SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to:

Places and language

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of 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 by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

, ISO 3166-1 country code SV *

Province of Savona The province of Savona (; Ligurian language, Ligurian: ''provinsa de Sann-a'') is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Savona, which has a population of 61,219 inhabitants. The province has a ...

, (vehicle registration plate code), Italy *

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; , VNCH), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the ...

, an extinct state *

Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...

, Norway, FIPS country code SV *

Swedish language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the G ...

, ISO 639-1 language code sv *

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley ...

, a region in northern California noted for high tech and social media companies *

Spokane Valley The Spokane Valley is a valley of the Spokane River through the southern Selkirk Mountains in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. The valley is home to the cities of Spokane and its suburbs Spokane Valley, Washington, Spokane Vall ...

, a valley in Washington state *

Spokane Valley, Washington Spokane Valley is a city in Spokane County, Washington, United States, and the largest suburb of Spokane, Washington, Spokane. It is located east of Spokane, west of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and surrounds the city of Millwood, Washington, Millwood ...

a city in the United States * '' sub verbo'' or '' sub voce'', a Latin phrase, 'under the word/heading'

Politics

Socialist Left Party (Norway) The Socialist Left Party (, SV; ) is a democratic socialist political party in Norway. Positioned on the left-wing of the political spectrum, it is opposed to European Union membership, European Union and the European Economic Area membership. S ...

, a political party * Slovaks Forward (''Slováci vpred''), a political party in Serbia *

Supplementary vote The contingent vote is a two-stage electoral system that elects a single representative, in which the winner receives a majority of votes. It uses ranked voting. The voter ranks the candidates in order of preference, and when the votes are f ...

, an electoral system

Science and technology

Sievert The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a derived unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizin ...

, symbol Sv, a unit of ionizing radiation dose * Starting variable, or initialization vector, in cryptography *

Stroke volume In cardiovascular physiology, stroke volume (SV) is the volume of blood pumped from the ventricle (heart), ventricle per beat. Stroke volume is calculated using measurements of ventricle volumes from an Echocardiography, echocardiogram and subtra ...

, in cardiovascular physiology * .sv, a filename extension of

SystemVerilog SystemVerilog, standardized as IEEE 1800 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is a hardware description and hardware verification language commonly used to model, design, simulate, test and implement electronic sy ...

files * .sv, the Internet country code top-level domain for El Salvador *

Svedberg In chemistry, a Svedberg unit or svedberg (symbol S, sometimes Sv) is a non- SI metric unit for sedimentation coefficients. The Svedberg unit offers a measure of a particle's size indirectly based on its sedimentation rate under acceleration ...

unit, symbol S or Sv, a non-metric unit for sedimentation coefficient *

Sverdrup In oceanography, the sverdrup (symbol: Sv) is a non- SI metric unit of volumetric flow rate, with equal to . It is equivalent to the SI derived unit cubic hectometer per second (symbol: hm3/s or hm3⋅s−1): is equal to . It is used almost ...

, symbol Sv, a non-SI unit of flow

Sports

Save (baseball) In baseball, a save ( SV or S) is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain circumstances. A save can be earned by entering a game in which his team is leading by three or fewer runs and finishing the game by p ...

, abbreviated SV * ''Sportverein'' ('sports club'), for example

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), or HSV (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its Association football, football department. Though the current HSV was founde ...

Save percentage Save percentage (often known by such symbols as SV%, SVS%, SVP, PCT) is a statistic in various Goal (sports), goal-scoring sports that track Save (goaltender), saves as a statistic. In ice hockey and lacrosse and association football, it is a sta ...

, SV%, a statistic in many sports

Transportation

Companies

Saudia Saudia (), formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia based in Jeddah. The airline's main hubs are the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the ...

, Saudi Arabian Airlines, IATA code SV *

Silver Line (Washington Metro) The Silver Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 34 Metro station, stations in Loudoun County, Virginia, Loudoun County, Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County and Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington Co ...

Società Veneta The Società Veneta (SV) was an Italian public transport company running trains and tramways. Its initial full name was the Società Veneta per le e costruzioni pubbliche (''Società Veneta for public business and construction''), though from 18 ...

, an Italian public transport company

Vehicles

MG XPower SV The MG XPower SV is a sports car that was produced by British automobile manufacturer MG Rover. Manufactured in Modena, Italy and finished at Longbridge plant, Longbridge, United Kingdom, it was based on the platform of the Qvale Mangusta, for ...

, 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, two passenger sportscar, sports car manufactured and marketed by Lamborghini from 2011 until 2022. Named after a prominent Spanish Spanish-style bullfighting, fighting bull that ...

Lamborghini Murcielago SV Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. ( , ), usually referred to as Lamborghini or colloquially Lambo, is an Italian manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs based in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company is owned by the Volkswagen Group through its su ...

Lamborghini Diablo SV The Lamborghini Diablo (meaning "devil" in Spanish), is a series of high-performance V12, rear mid-engined sports cars in the supercar market segment, built by Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini from 1990 through 2001. It is the first ...

, or

Lamborghini Miura SV The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. The car was the first high-performance production road car with a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, which has since become the standar ...

* S-V, a stage of the Saturn I rocket * Name prefix of ships SV or S/V for

sailing vessel A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety of sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships ca ...

Other uses

* ESP SV, a series of electric guitars * ''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet'', ''Pokémon'' video games released in 2022 *

Shareholder value Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. The term expresses the idea that the primary goal for a business is to increase the wealth of its shareholders (owners) by paying dividends and/or causing th ...

* Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the United States, a classification for television stations *

Stattkus-Verzeichnis The Stattkus-Verzeichnis (SV) is a catalogue of the musical compositions of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and stri ...

, a catalogue of the musical works of Claudio Monteverdi