PV
# PV

PV may refer to:

## Places

* Paceville, Malta
* Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
* Postal village, a settlement that has a post office

### United States

* Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
* Prescott Valley, Arizona
* Prairie Village, Kansas

## Politics

* Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
* Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore
* Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems

## Science and technology

* Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity
* Potential vorticity, in fluid dynamics
* Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
* Process variable, in control systems
* Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

### Biology and medicine

* Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein
* Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics
* Pemphigus vulgaris, a chronic blistering skin disease
* Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
* Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
* Pharmacovigilance, a science of pharmaceutical products
* Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio
* Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
* Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug

### Chemistry

* Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT)
* Protecting group, as Pv, Pivaloyl
* Peroxide value
* Perovskite (Pv), a mineral

### Computing

* Page view, a metric in web analytics
* Semaphore (programming), from P and V operations in semaphores restricting processes in a shared environment
* Paravirtualization, a technique for the virtualization of guest operating systems in virtual machines

### Mathematics

* Principal value, a single-valued function in complex analysis
* Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; see Variation (game tree)
* Cauchy principal value, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined
* Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

## Transportation

* Pallavaram railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Southern Railway station code)
* Pasažieru vilciens, a Latvian passenger-carrying railway company
* PV-1 Ventura, a World War II-era bomber and patrol aircraft
* PAN Air (IATA airline designator)
* Volvo PV, an automobile

## Other uses

* Personal vaporizer or electronic cigarette
* P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV
* Point of view (literature)
* Port Vale F.C., an English football club
* Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music
* Prairie Vista Elementary School, Indiana, US
* Present value, of money
* Promotional video (disambiguation)
