MV

Look up MV, mv, Mv, mV, or .mv in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

MV may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

• MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy
• Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV)
• Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer
• Midland Valley Railroad (reporting mark MV)

Other organizations

• Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization
• Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative
• Minnesota Vikings, an American football team
• Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant
• Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Places

• Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts
• Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV)
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea

People

• M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman

In science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Malvidin, an anthocyanidin
• Minute volume, the volume of air that can be inhaled or exhaled in one minute
• Mitral valve, a valve in the heart connecting the left atrium and left ventricle

Computing

• mv, 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, a business automation software
• Materialized view, 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 volts, a measure of electrical potential
• Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv
• mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a volt, a measure of electrical potential
• mv, abbreviation for momentum in physics
• Mesovortex, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones

Other uses

• MV, Roman numeral for 1005
• Market value, 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
• Motor Vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names
• Music video, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes