# PV

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**PV** may refer to:

## Places

- [Paceville](/source/Paceville), Malta
- [Puerto Vallarta](/source/Puerto_Vallarta), Mexico
- [Postal village](/source/Postal_village), a settlement that has a post office

### United States

- [Palos Verdes Peninsula](/source/Palos_Verdes_Peninsula), California
- [Prescott Valley, Arizona](/source/Prescott_Valley,_Arizona)
- [Prairie Village, Kansas](/source/Prairie_Village,_Kansas)

## Politics

- [Partido Verde (disambiguation)](/source/Partido_Verde_(disambiguation)), several political parties
- [Peoples Voice](/source/Peoples_Voice_(Singapore)), a political party in Singapore
- [Preferential voting (disambiguation)](/source/Preferential_voting_(disambiguation)), a category of electoral systems

## Science and technology

- [Photovoltaics](/source/Photovoltaics), a technology for converting sunlight into electricity
- [Potential vorticity](/source/Potential_vorticity), in fluid dynamics
- [Presta valve](/source/Presta_valve), one of the two common tire valves
- [Process variable](/source/Process_variable), in control systems
- Programmed visibility, of [traffic signals](/source/Traffic_signals)

### Biology and medicine

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

### Chemistry

- Pressure and volume, for example in the [ideal gas equation](/source/Ideal_gas_equation) (PV=nRT)
- [Protecting group](/source/Protecting_group), as Pv, Pivaloyl
- [Peroxide value](/source/Peroxide_value)
- [Perovskite](/source/Perovskite) (Pv), a mineral

### Computing

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

### Mathematics

- [Principal value](/source/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)](/source/Variation_(game_tree))
- [Cauchy principal value](/source/Cauchy_principal_value), a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined
- [Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number](/source/Pisot%E2%80%93Vijayaraghavan_number) (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

## Sports

- [Pickleball Victoria](/source/Pickleball_in_Australia#Governing_body), an Australian state level organization
- [Port Vale F.C.](/source/Port_Vale_F.C.), an English football club
- ["Pole vault" athletics abbreviation](/source/Athletics_abbreviations#Events) in track and field

## Transportation

- [Pallavaram railway station](/source/Pallavaram_railway_station), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Southern Railway station code)
- [Pasažieru vilciens](/source/Pasa%C5%BEieru_vilciens), a Latvian passenger-carrying railway company
- [PV-1 Ventura](/source/PV-1_Ventura), a World War II-era bomber and patrol aircraft
- [PAN Air](/source/PAN_Air) (IATA airline designator)
- [Volvo PV](/source/Volvo_PV), an automobile

## Other uses

- [Personal vaporizer](/source/Personal_vaporizer) or electronic cigarette
- [P. V. Narasimha Rao](/source/P._V._Narasimha_Rao) (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV
- [Point of view (literature)](/source/Point_of_view_(literature))
- [Powerviolence](/source/Powerviolence), a subgenre of hardcore punk music
- [Prairie Vista Elementary School](/source/Prairie_Vista_Elementary_School), Indiana, US
- [Present value](/source/Present_value), of money
- *[Prometheus Bound](/source/Prometheus_Bound)*, an ancient Greek tragedy commonly abbreviated as *PV*, on the basis of its Latin title *Prometheus Vinctus*
- [Promotional video (disambiguation)](/source/Promotional_video_(disambiguation))

## See also

- [Methylenedioxypyrovalerone](/source/Methylenedioxypyrovalerone) (MDPV), a chemical
- [alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone](/source/Alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone) (a-PVP), a chemical
- [Pee Vee (disambiguation)](/source/Pee_Vee_(disambiguation))
- [Peavey (disambiguation)](/source/Peavey_(disambiguation))

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