PV may refer to:

Places

* Paceville, Malta *

Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadalaj ...

, Mexico *

Postal village A postal village or post-village (p.v., P.V., PV or p-v) is generally a settlement that has a post office. Definition and abbreviation In North American usage, the term "post village" refers to a small community (a village) which has a post office. ...

, a settlement that has a post office

United States

Palos Verdes Peninsula The Palos Verdes Peninsula (''Palos Verdes'', Spanish for "Green Sticks") is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. Located in the S ...

, California *

Prescott Valley, Arizona Prescott Valley is a town located in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, approximately east of Prescott. According to the 2020 United States Census, Prescott Valley has a population of 46,785 residents. History Prescott Valley's Fitzmaur ...

Prairie Village, Kansas Prairie Village is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 22,957. History After the successful development of the Country Cl ...

Politics

* Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties * Peoples Voice, a political party in Singapore * Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems

Science and technology

Photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercial ...

, a technology for converting sunlight into electricity * Potential vorticity, in fluid dynamics *

Presta valve The Presta valve (also French valve (FV) or Sclaverand valve) is a tire valve commonly found in high pressure road style and some mountain bicycle inner tubes. It comprises an outer valve stem and an inner valve body. A lock nut to secure the ...

, one of the two common tire valves * Process variable, in control systems * Programmed visibility, of

traffic signals Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – known also as robots in South Africa are signalling devices positioned at intersection (road), road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control flows of traf ...

Biology and medicine

* Parvalbumin, a calcium-binding albumin protein * Pathovar, a bacterial strain or set of strains with the same or similar characteristics *

Pemphigus vulgaris Pemphigus vulgaris is a rare chronic blistering skin disease and the most common form of pemphigus. Pemphigus was derived from the Greek word ''pemphix'', meaning blister. It is classified as a type II hypersensitivity reaction in which antibod ...

, a chronic blistering skin disease * '' Per vaginam'', through/via the vagina * Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus *

Pharmacovigilance Term Given By Tushar Sharma (UPES Batch 2025) Pharmacovigilance (PV, or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmaceutical science relating to the "collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention" of adverse effects with phar ...

, a science of pharmaceutical products *

Poliovirus A poliovirus, the causative agent of polio (also known as poliomyelitis), is a serotype of the species ''Enterovirus C'', in the family of '' Picornaviridae''. There are three poliovirus serotypes: types 1, 2, and 3. Poliovirus is composed of a ...

, the causative agent of polio * Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body * Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug

Chemistry

* Pressure and volume, for example in the ideal gas equation (PV=nRT) *

Protecting group A protecting group or protective group is introduced into a molecule by chemical modification of a functional group to obtain chemoselectivity in a subsequent chemical reaction. It plays an important role in multistep organic synthesis. In man ...

, as Pv, Pivaloyl * Peroxide value *

Perovskite Perovskite (pronunciation: ) is a calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate (chemical formula ). Its name is also applied to the class of compounds which have the same type of crystal structure In crystallography, crystal ...

(Pv), a mineral

Computing

* Page view, a metric in web analytics * Semaphore (programming), from P and V operations in semaphores restricting processes in a shared environment *

Paravirtualization In computing, paravirtualization or para-virtualization is a virtualization technique that presents a software interface to the virtual machines which is similar, yet not identical, to the underlying hardware–software interface. The intent o ...

, a technique for the virtualization of guest operating systems in virtual machines

Mathematics

* 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) *

Cauchy principal value In mathematics, the Cauchy principal value, named after Augustin Louis Cauchy, is a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined. Formulation Depending on the type of singularity in the integrand ...

, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined * Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number (PV-number), a real algebraic integer

Transportation

* Pasažieru vilciens, a Latvian passenger-carrying railway company * PV-1 Ventura, a World War II-era bomber and patrol aircraft * PAN Air (IATA airline designator) * Volvo PV, an automobile

Other uses

Personal vaporizer An electronic cigarette is an electronic device that simulates tobacco smoking. It consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, and a container such as a cartridge or tank. Instead of smoke, the user inhales vapor. As such ...

or electronic cigarette *

P. V. Narasimha Rao Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to Indi ...

(1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, known as PV *

Point of view (literature) Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the ...

* Port Vale F.C., an English football club * Powerviolence, a subgenre of hardcore punk music *

Prairie Vista Elementary School Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, commonly known as simply PHM, is a school district located in north-central Indiana, a region locally known as Michiana. The PHM district is located in and named for the three easternmost townships of St. ...

, Indiana, US *

Present value In economics and finance, present value (PV), also known as present discounted value, is the value of an expected income stream determined as of the date of valuation. The present value is usually less than the future value because money has in ...

, of money * Promotional video (disambiguation)