Businesses and organisations

* Cargolux (IATA designator CV), a Luxembourg cargo airline * , a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities * Central Vermont Railway, a railway that operated in the New England states *

Christian Voice (UK) Christian Voice (CV) is a Christian fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christian advocacy group based in the United Kingdom. Its stated objective is "to uphold Christianity as the Faith of the United Kingdom, to be a voice for Christian values, Bi ...

, a UK advocacy group * , a Brazilian criminal organization * , a student group at Columbia University

Computing and electronics

* Capacitance voltage profiling, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices *

Computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

, methods of extracting information and meaning from images and video * Constant voltage source, electrical description *

CV/Gate CV/gate (an abbreviation of ''control voltage/gate'') is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines, and similar equipment with external sequencers. The control voltage typically controls pitch and the gate signal controls note ...

, a control voltage and gate solution * Cross-validation (statistics), a method to separate data in machine learning

Literature and media

* ''CV'' (novel), a novel by Damon Knight * Character

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound produ ...

, or CV * CV Network, a defunct Spanish-language television network in the United States * , formerly CV-TV, a Colombian

Medicine

Contractile vacuole A contractile vacuole (CV) is a sub-cellular structure (organelle) involved in osmoregulation. It is found predominantly in protists, including unicellular algae. It was previously known as pulsatile or pulsating vacuole. Overview The contrac ...

, an organelle found in some cells *

Coronavirus Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the comm ...

, a type of virus, notably: **

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus previously had the Novel coronavirus, provisional nam ...

, the virus causing the 2019–2020 outbreak **

Coronavirus disease 2019 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include f ...

(COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus **

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, the ongoing pandemic * Conduction velocity, the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway

Places

* .cv, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde * Cee Vee, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States * CV postcode area, postcode area within the United Kingdom

Other technical terms

* C_v, the flow coefficient, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications * c_v, the

specific heat In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol ) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in temperature. It is also referred to as massic heat ...

of a material at constant volume * Calorific value, the amount of heat released during the combustion of a substance * Cataclysmic variable star, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness *

Coefficient of variation In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV), also known as normalized root-mean-square deviation (NRMSD), percent RMS, and relative standard deviation (RSD), is a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability ...

, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution * Compensating variation, an economic concept of compensation for a price change *

Constant-velocity joint A constant-velocity joint (also called a CV joint and homokinetic joint) is a mechanical coupling which allows the shafts to rotate freely (without an appreciable increase in friction or Backlash (engineering), backlash) and compensates for the a ...

, or CV-joint *

Control volume In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models of physical processes. In an inertial frame of reference, it is a fictitious region of a given v ...

, a presumed volume for analysing the thermodynamic state of a system * Consonantvowel, an open-

syllable A syllable is a basic unit of organization within a sequence of speech sounds, such as within a word, typically defined by linguists as a ''nucleus'' (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (''margins'', which are ...

pattern in linguistics * Cultivated variety or cultivar, once commonly abbreviated ''cv.'', now officially deprecated but widely used and recommended * Cyclic voltammetry, an electrochemical way of measuring * Chemical formula of vanadium carbide

Other uses

* CV (tax horsepower), a French and Italian system of car taxation * CV, the

Hull classification symbol The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...

for aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy *

105 (number) 105 (one hundred ndfive) is the natural number following 104 (number), 104 and preceding 106 (number), 106. In mathematics 105 is the 14th triangular number, a dodecagonal number, and the first Zeisel number. It is the first odd sphenic number ...

, Roman numerals representation of CV *

Chuvash language Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvashia, Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur languages, Oghur branch of Turkic languages ...

, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV) * Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decorations * International CV, a rebadged medium duty Chevrolet Silverado