SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to:
Places and language
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de 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 ...
, ISO 3166-1 country code SV
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South Vietnam, an extinct state
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Svalbard, Norway, FIPS country code SV
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Swedish language
Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic coun ...
, ISO 639-1 language code sv
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as 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 areas San Mateo Count ...
, a region in northern California noted for high tech and social media companies (e.g.,
Apple Inc.,
Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
,
Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin ...
)
Science and technology
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Sensitivity priority, or Sv (for "sensitivity value"), a camera setting
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Sievert, symbol Sv, a unit of ionizing radiation dose
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Starting variable
In cryptography, an initialization vector (IV) or starting variable (SV) is an input to a cryptographic primitive being used to provide the initial state. The IV is typically required to be random or pseudorandom, but sometimes an IV only needs to ...
, or initialization vector, in cryptography
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Stroke volume, in cardiovascular physiology
* .sv, a filename extension of
SystemVerilog files
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.sv
.sv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for El Salvador.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has a bug in its Swedish version where .sv is used instead of .se
.se, formerly branded as .SE, is the Internet
The Interne ...
, the Internet country code top-level domain for El Salvador
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Svedberg unit, symbol S or Sv, a non-metric unit for sedimentation coefficient
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Sverdrup, symbol Sv, a non-SI unit of flow
Sport
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Save (baseball), abbreviated SV
* ''Sportverein'' ('sports club'), for example
Hamburger SV
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Save percentage
Save percentage (often known by such symbols as SV%, SVS%, SVP, PCT) is a statistic in various goal-scoring sports that track saves as a statistic.
In ice hockey and lacrosse, it is a statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal ...
, SV%, a statistic in many sports
Vehicles
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MG XPower SV, a sports car by MG Rover
* ''Super veloce'', a variety of Lamborghini car such as the
Lamborghini Aventador SV,
Lamborghini Murcielago SV,
Lamborghini Diablo SV
The Lamborghini Diablo is a high-performance mid-engine sports car built by Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini between 1990 and 2001. It is the first production Lamborghini capable of attaining a top speed in excess of . After the end ...
, 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 supercar with a rear mid-engined two-seat layout, although the concept was first seen in a production road car with R ...
* The
S-V
The S-V (pronounced "S-five") was the third stage of the Saturn I rocket. It was built by Convair. It was designed to use two RL-10A-1 engines fueled by liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) in tanks utilizing a common bulkhead to separat ...
stage used on the
Saturn I
The Saturn I was a rocket designed as the United States' first medium lift launch vehicle for up to low Earth orbit payloads.Terminology has changed since the 1960s; back then, 20,000 pounds was considered "heavy lift". The rocket's first s ...
rocket during the
Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...
program
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Name prefix of ships SV or S/V for
sailing vessel
Other uses
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ESP SV
The ESP SV is a series of electric guitars produced by ESP.
The ESP SV is a series that is only produced for the Japanese and European market. Notable users of models in the SV Series include Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom, Kai Hansen of Ga ...
, a series of electric guitars produced by ESP
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''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet'', ''Pokémon'' video games released in 2022
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Saudia
Saudia ( ar, السعودية '), formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah. The airline's main operational base is at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. King Khalid Inte ...
, Saudi Arabian Airlines, IATA code SV
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Shareholder value
Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. It became prominent during the 1980s and 1990s along with the management principle value-based management or "managing for value".
Definition
The term "shar ...
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Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the United States, a classification for television stations
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Socialist Left Party (Norway), a political party
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Slovaks Forward (''Slováci vpred''), a political party in Serbia
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sub verbo'' or ''
sub voce'', a Latin phrase, 'under the word/heading'
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Stattkus-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of the musical works of Claudio Monteverdi
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Supplementary vote, an electoral system
See also
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