# BV

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**BV**, **B.V.**, **Bv**, **bV**, or **bv** may refer to:

## In arts and entertainment

- [Backing vocal](/source/Backing_vocal), in music, a vocal harmony with the lead vocalist provided by one or more backing vocalists
- Busoni-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of compositions by [Ferruccio Busoni](/source/Ferruccio_Busoni)

## Companies and organizations

- [Beaulieu Vineyard](/source/Beaulieu_Vineyard), a Napa Valley winery
- *[Besloten vennootschap](/source/Besloten_vennootschap)*, a type of Dutch or Belgian private limited liability company. Dutch for "private company", similar to the American concept of a [limited liability company](/source/Limited_liability_company).
- [Bicycle Victoria](/source/Bicycle_Victoria), an Australian bicycle advocacy organisation
- [Black & Veatch](/source/Black_%26_Veatch), a U.S.-based engineering, consulting and construction company
- [Blue Panorama Airlines](/source/Blue_Panorama_Airlines) (IATA airline designator)
- [Bottega Veneta](/source/Bottega_Veneta), a manufacturer of luxury leather goods
- [Bureau Veritas](/source/Bureau_Veritas), a testing, inspection, and certification company (stock symbol BV)

## Science and medicine

### Biology and medicine

- [Bacterial vaginosis](/source/Bacterial_vaginosis), the most common cause of vaginal infection
- Belch Vocalizations, the most common form of intra-group communication among the [mountain gorilla](/source/Mountain_gorilla)
- [Biological value](/source/Biological_value), a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body
- [Binocular vision](/source/Binocular_vision), vision in which both eyes are used together
- [Blood vessel](/source/Blood_vessel), part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body
- [Biovar](/source/Biovar), a rank below species often written as bv.

### Mathematics and computing

- [Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism](/source/Batalin%E2%80%93Vilkovisky_formalism), a concept in mathematical physics to construct gauge theories
- [Bounded variation](/source/Bounded_variation), a concept in mathematical analysis
- [Bounding volume](/source/Bounding_volume), in computer graphics and computational geometry, a closed volume that completely contains the union of objects in the set

### Other uses in science and technology

- [Bavarian B V](/source/Bavarian_B_V), early German 2-4-0 type of locomotive of the Royal Bavarian State Railways
- [Bed volume](/source/Bed_volume), the volume of material in a vessel (e.g. of a [catalyst](/source/Catalyst) in a vessel, or stationary phase in column chromatography)
- [Boiling vessel](/source/Boiling_vessel), equipment provided to an armoured vehicle for heating food or water (chiefly British)
- [Breakdown voltage](/source/Breakdown_voltage), the minimum voltage that causes an insulator to become electrically conductive
- Lohner B.V, a variant of the [Lohner B.II](/source/Lohner_B.II) military reconnaissance aircraft

## Language

- [Voiced labiodental affricate](/source/Voiced_labiodental_affricate) (⟨b̪͡v⟩, ⟨b̪͜v⟩, or ⟨b̪v⟩), a type of consonant sound

## Places

- [Bella Vista, Arkansas](/source/Bella_Vista,_Arkansas)
- [Bouvet Island](/source/Bouvet_Island), an uninhabited South Atlantic sub-Antarctic volcanic island - [.bv](/source/.bv), the inactive ccTLD for Bouvet Island

## Other uses

- [Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic)](/source/Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(Roman_Catholic)), Mary, mother of Jesus, as venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
- [Book value](/source/Book_value), in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
- [Bronze Star Medal](/source/Bronze_Star_Medal) with Valor
- [Bysshe Vanolis](/source/Bysshe_Vanolis), pen-name of Scottish poet James Thomson
- [Swiss Federal Constitution](/source/Swiss_Federal_Constitution), abbreviated as BV for its [German](/source/German_language) name *Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft*

## See also

- [B5 (disambiguation)](/source/B5_(disambiguation))
- [Buena Vista (disambiguation)](/source/Buena_Vista_(disambiguation))

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