LV, Lv or lv may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Experience level An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game. Experien ...

Level (video gaming) In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective. Video game levels generally have progressively incre ...

, in video games and/or role-playing games * ''LV'' (album), a live EP by the rock band Chickenfoot

Businesses and organizations

LEVEL (airline) Fly Level SL, styled as LEVEL, is a Spanish airline owned by the International Airlines Group (IAG). The airline has a registered office in Viladecans, Spain. Level was initially launched as an airline brand, with low-cost, long-haul flights o ...

(IATA code LV since 2017) * Albanian Airlines (IATA code LV, 1991–2011) *

Lehigh Valley Railroad The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite, anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Northeastern Pennsylvania to major consumer markets in Philadelphia, New York City, and ...

(AAR reporting mark LV) *

Liverpool Victoria Liverpool Victoria, trading since May 2007 as LV=, is one of the United Kingdom's largest insurance companies. It offers a range of insurance and retirement products. History History The first known meeting of the Liverpool Victoria Friendl ...

, an English friendly society, commonly known as ''LV='' *

Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French Luxury goods, luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton (designer), Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ...

, a French fashion house

People

Luther Vandross Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American Soul music, soul and Contemporary R&B, R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. Over his career, he achieved eleven consecutive RIAA certification, RIAA-certified ...

(1951–2005), American R&B singer and songwriter *

L.V. (singer) Larry J. Sanders (born December 2, 1960), known professionally as L.V. (an acronym for "Large Variety"), is an American singer, best known for his collaboration with rapper Coolio on the worldwide hit single " Gangsta's Paradise". He has release ...

(born 1960), American R&B singer *

Lü (surname) Lü () is the pinyin (Lǚ with the Tone (linguistics), tone diacritic) and Wade–Giles romanisation of a Chinese surname, most commonly (Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese) and (Traditional Chinese characters, traditional Chines ...

(吕), a Chinese family name *

LV (musical duo) LV is an electronic music duo of Si Williams and Will Horrocks, created in 2007, who met when they were both studying at University College London. The duo is based in London and has produced four albums to date. The duo have collaborated with ...

(2007–present), electronic music duo

Places

Las Vegas Valley The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the Southern Nevada, southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan St ...

the area in Nevada that includes **

Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

, a city in Nevada ** The

Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits ...

** other meanings see Las Vegas (disambiguation) *

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

(ISO 3166 country code LV) *

Lehigh Valley The Lehigh Valley () is a geography, geographic and urban area, metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania. It is a co ...

, an area in Pennsylvania

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Left ventricle A ventricle is one of two large chambers located toward the bottom of the heart that collect and expel blood towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs. The blood pumped by a ventricle is supplied by an atrium, an adjacent chamber in t ...

of the heart ** Left ventricular

Ventricular assist device A ventricular assist device (VAD) is an electromechanics, electromechanical device that provides support for cardiac pump function, which is used either to partially or to completely replace the function of a failing heart. VADs can be used in p ...

(LV unit)

Computing

* .lv, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Latvia * LabVIEW, a system-design platform and development environment *

LaserVision LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. It was developed by Philips, Pioneer, and the movie studio MCA. The format was initially marketed in the United States in 1978 under the name Dis ...

, a home video format and optical disc storage medium *

Logical volume In computer storage, logical volume management or LVM provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes to store volumes. In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, ...

, in computer storage

Other uses in science and technology

Launch vehicle A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space. The most common form is the ballistic missile-shaped multistage ...

, a rocket *

Light value __NOTOC__ In photography, light value has been used to refer to a "light level" for either incident or reflected light, often on a base-2 logarithmic scale. The term does not derive from a published standard, and has had several different meanings: ...

, in photography *

Lightvessel A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship that acts as a lighthouse. It is used in waters that are too deep or otherwise unsuitable for lighthouse construction. Although some records exist of fire beacons being placed on ships in Roman times, the ...

, a ship which acts as a lighthouse *

Livermorium Livermorium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Lv and atomic number 116. It is an extremely radioactive element that has only been created in a laboratory setting and has not been observed in nature. The element is named after the La ...

, symbol Lv, a chemical element *

Low voltage In electrical engineering, low voltage is a relative term, the definition varying by context. Different definitions are used in electric power transmission and distribution, compared with electronics design. Electrical safety codes define "low vo ...

Other uses

55 (number) 55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54 (number), 54 and preceding 56 (number), 56. Mathematics 55 is: *the 10th Fibonacci number and the 10th triangular number, The sum of 55's digits is also 10. *the 5th heptagonal number, the 5th sq ...

, in Roman numerals *

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 639-1 code LV) *

Ljudski vrt Ljudski vrt () is a football stadium in Maribor, the second-largest city of Slovenia. The stadium has a seating capacity of 11,709. It has been the home of NK Maribor since their formation in 1960, with the exception of a short period in early ...

, an association football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia * Luncheon Voucher, a UK meal voucher *

or Lv, romanization of Chinese name * Argentina (

aircraft registration An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and functions much li ...

prefix LV) *

Linking verb In traditional grammar and guide books, a linking verb is a verb that describes the subject by connecting it to a predicate adjective or predicate noun In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creat ...

, a verb used to describe a subject {{Disambiguation