MV may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

Motor vessel A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship Marine propulsion, propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine. The names of motor ships are often Ship prefix, prefixed with MS, M/S, MV or M/V. Engines for motorships were develo ...

, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names *

MV Agusta MV Agusta (, full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is an Italian high end motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded by Domenico Agusta, Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of ...

, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) *

Metropolitan-Vickers Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial el ...

, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer *

Midland Valley Railroad The Midland Valley Railroad (MV) was a railroad company incorporated on June 4, 1903 for the purpose of building a line from Hope, Arkansas, through Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas. It was backed by C. Jared Ingersoll, a Philadelp ...

, United States (reporting mark MV) *

Merchant vessel A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which a ...

, ship prefix

Other organizations

Mieterverband Mieterverband, meaning the association of the Leasehold estate, tenants and commonly shortened to ''MV'', is a Switzerland, Swiss nonprofit organization that was founded in 1915 in Zürich. Its full and political correct name is Mieterinnen- und ...

, a Swiss tenant organization *

Millennium Volunteers {{notability, Org, date=August 2018 Millennium Volunteers (often abbreviated as ''MV'') is a youth volunteering initiative in the United Kingdom, UK, set up with public funding, and aimed at people aged between 14 and 24. The programme works to eng ...

, a former UK government initiative *

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. The Vikings compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. Founded in 1960 as ...

, an American football team *

Miss Venezuela Miss Venezuela (Spanish: ''Organización Miss Venezuela'') is a Venezuelan beauty pageant operated by the Cisneros Group. Founded in 1952, it currently selects Venezuelan representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International. ...

, a beauty pageant *

Museum Victoria Museums Victoria is an organisation that includes a number of museums and related bodies in Melbourne. These include Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks (Melbourne), Scienceworks, IMAX Melbourne, a research institute, the UNESCO W ...

, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Places

Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod. It is known for being a popular, affluent summer colony, and includes the smaller peninsula Chappaquiddick Isla ...

, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts *

Maldives The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, abou ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) *

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, a city in California, US

People

M. Visvesvaraya Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Moːkśguṇam Viśveśvarayya; 15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore ...

, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV *

MV (footballer) Marcos Vinicius Silvestre Gaspar (born 10 July 1998), better known by the nickname MV, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Volta Redonda FC. Career Revealed in the youth sectors of Resende FC, MV began his prof ...

, nickname of Marcos Vinicius Silvestre Gaspar (born 1998), Brazilian football forward

In science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Maedi-visna, a sheep disease *

Malvidin Malvidin is an O-methylated anthocyanidin, the 3',5'-methoxy derivative of delphinidin. As a primary plant pigment, its glycosides are highly abundant in nature. Natural occurrences Malvidin is responsible for the blue color found in petals ...

, an anthocyanidin *

Measles virus The measles virus (MV), with scientific name ''Morbillivirus hominis'', is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, non-segmented RNA virus of the genus ''Morbillivirus'' within the family ''Paramyxoviridae''. It is the cause of measles. H ...

Mechanical ventilation Mechanical ventilation or assisted ventilation is the Medicine, medical term for using a ventilator, ventilator machine to fully or partially provide artificial ventilation. Mechanical ventilation helps move air into and out of the lungs, wit ...

* Minute volume, the volume of air that can be inhaled or exhaled in one minute *

Mitral valve The mitral valve ( ), also known as the bicuspid valve or left atrioventricular valve, is one of the four heart valves. It has two Cusps of heart valves, cusps or flaps and lies between the atrium (heart), left atrium and the ventricle (heart), ...

, a valve in the heart connecting the left atrium and left ventricle

Computing

mv (Unix) mv is a shell command for renaming and moving files and directories. If both items are on the same file system, the command renames; otherwise items are copied to the destination and the old items are removed (more specifically unlinked). To ...

, a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another * .mv, top level domain country code for the Republic of Maldives *

MainView MainView, currently advertised as BMC MainView, is a systems management software produced by BMC Software. It was created in 1990 by Boole & Babbage and became part of BMC Software's services after they bought out Boole & Babbage in a stock swa ...

, a business automation software *

Materialized view In computing, a materialized view is a database object that contains the results of a query. For example, it may be a local copy of data located remotely, or may be a subset of the rows and/or columns of a table or join result, or may be a summa ...

, a database object that contains the results of a query

Other uses in science and technology

* MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000

volt The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, Voltage#Galvani potential vs. electrochemical potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units, International System of Uni ...

s, a measure of electrical potential *

Mendelevium Mendelevium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Md ( formerly Mv) and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that currently cannot be produced ...

, a chemical element with former symbol Mv * mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a

, a measure of electrical potential * mv (''mass × velocity''),

momentum In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (: momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a direction. ...

in physics * Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify

molar mass distribution In polymer chemistry, the molar mass distribution (or molecular weight distribution) describes the relationship between the number of moles of each polymer species () and the molar mass () of that species. In linear polymers, the individual polym ...

in chemistry *

Mesovortex A mesovortex is a small-scale rotational feature found in a Thunderstorm, convective storm, such as a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS, i.e. squall line), a supercell, or the eyewall of a tropical cyclone. Mesovortices range in diameter from te ...

, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones *

Microwave Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves but longer than infrared waves. Its wavelength ranges from about one meter to one millimeter, corresponding to frequency, frequencies between 300&n ...

, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing * M_V is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband *

M-V The M-V rocket, also called M-5 or Mu-5, was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites. It was a member of the Mu family of rockets. The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) began developing the M-V i ...

, Japanese space rocket *

Machine vision Machine vision is the technology and methods used to provide image, imaging-based automation, automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance, usually in industry. Machine vision ...

Other uses

* MV,

Roman numeral Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, ea ...

for

1005 Year 1005 ( MV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – The Republic of Pisa conducts a military offensive against the Saracen strongholds in Southern Italy. The Pisan fleet ...

Market value Market value or OMV (open market valuation) is the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting. Market value is often used interchangeably with ''open market value'', ''fair value'' or '' fair market value'', although t ...

, the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting * " Moist Vagina", a song by grunge band Nirvana on their single ''

All Apologies "All Apologies" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It appears as the final track on the band's third and final studio album, '' In Utero'', released by DGC Records in September 1993. The song ...

'' *

Music video A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to ...

, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes *

Meaningful vote Parliamentary votes on Brexit, sometimes referred to as "meaningful votes", were the parliamentary votes under the terms of Section 13 of the United Kingdom's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which requires the government of the United Kin ...

, on Brexit * ''

mezza voce A variety of musical terms is encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings ...

'' ('half-voice') with subdued or moderated volume in a musical score * MV, an advisory label for mild violence in the

United States pay television content advisory system The United States pay television content advisory system is a television content rating system developed cooperatively by the American pay television industry; it first went into effect on March 1, 1994, on Cable television in the United States#Pr ...

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