LAV or Lav may refer to:
Persons
* Lav, an alternative name for
Lava (''Ramayana''), a son of the Hindu deity Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is told in the ''Ramayana''
* Lav, translation in some Slavic languages of the name
Lev
*
Luis Antonio Valencia, Manchester United winger
*
Lav (singer), the stage name of American singer-songwriter Kalea Little.
Science and technology
*
Lavalier microphone, a small microphone with a clip for attaching to clothing
* software packages for encoding and decoding video and audio files:
** LAV Filters, a set of open-source DirectShow filters based on
FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing vide ...
**
Libav, a free software project forked from FFmpeg
**
libavcodec
libavcodec is a free and open-source library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.
libavcodec is an integral part of many open-source multimedia applications and frameworks. The popular MPV, xine and VLC media players use ...
, an audio/video codec library provided by FFmpeg and Libav
* Live
Attenuated vaccine
An attenuated vaccine (or a live attenuated vaccine, LAV) is a vaccine created by reducing the virulence of a pathogen, but still keeping it viable (or "live"). Attenuation takes an infectious agent and alters it so that it becomes harmless or le ...
, a vaccine with weakened but still living pathogen
* Load average, the average of
Load (computing)
In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numb ...
* Local As View, a view-based query answering approach to
data integration
Data integration refers to the process of combining, sharing, or synchronizing data from multiple sources to provide users with a unified view.
There are a wide range of possible applications for data integration, from commercial (such as when a ...
* Lymphadenopathy-associated virus, a former name for
HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of '' Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the im ...
(human immunodeficiency virus)
Vehicles
*
Leisure activity vehicle
Minivan (sometimes called simply a van) is a car classification for vehicles designed to transport passengers in the rear seating row(s), with reconfigurable seats in two or three rows . The equivalent classification in Europe is MPV (multi-pu ...
, a car classification
* Light Armored Vehicle, another term for
armored car (military)
A military armored (Commonwealth English, also spelled armoured) car is a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks. With the gradual de ...
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LAV (armored vehicle), series of armored vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems, Canada
** LAV I, or
Armored Vehicle General Purpose 6x6
**
LAV II, 8x8 vehicle
***
LAV-25
The LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle) is a member of the LAV II family. It is an eight-wheeled amphibious armored reconnaissance vehicle built by General Dynamics Land Systems and used by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. ...
, used by the United States Marine Corps
**
LAV III
The LAV III is the third generation of the LAV (Canada), Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) family of armored personnel carriers built by General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada (GDLS-C), a London, Ontario, based subsidiary of General Dynamics Land ...
, 8x8 vehicle
**
LAV 6, modernization of the LAV III
* Cadillac Cage light armored vehicles:
**
Commando V-150 sometimes referred to as the LAV-150
**
Commando V-200 sometimes referred to as the LAV-200
**
LAV-300
**
LAV-600
*
Komatsu LAV, a Japanese armored car, unrelated to the Canadian LAV
Transportation
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Laverton railway station, Melbourne
*
Línea Aeropostal Venezolana, an airline of Venezuela
* ''Líneas de Alta Velocidad'', Spanish
high-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated railway track, tracks. While there is ...
way lines
**
Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line
The Madrid–Sevilla high-speed line (NAFA or ''Nuevo Acceso Ferroviario a Andalucía'') is a Spanish railway line for high-speed traffic between Madrid and Seville. The first Spanish high-speed rail connection has been in use since 21 April 1 ...
**
Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line
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Madrid–León high-speed rail line
**
Madrid–Levante high-speed rail network
**
Córdoba–Málaga high-speed rail line
**
Antequera–Granada high-speed rail line
Other uses
*
Latvian language
Latvian (, ), also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging
to the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of the Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia ...
(ISO 639-2 & 3 code LAV)
*
Lav, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
*
Lav pivo, a beer brand in Serbia
* ''
The Last American Virgin'', a 1982 film
*
Let America Vote, a political action organization fighting voter suppression
See also
*
Lava (disambiguation)
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