PV

PV may refer to:

Engineering

Photovoltaics, a technology for converting sunlight directly into electricity
Process variable, a variable representing the current states or value of the process being controlled in a feedback control loop
Presta valve, one of the two common tire valves
Programmed visibility, of traffic signals

Page view, a metric in web analytics
Semaphore (programming), from P and V operations in semaphores restricting processes in a shared environment
Paravirtualization, a technique for the virtualization of guest operating systems in virtual machines
Principal variation, the sequence of moves in a game tree currently believed to represent best play; See Variation (game tree)
pv (Pipe Viewer), a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.

Periventricular nucleus, of the hypothalamus
Pharmacovigilance
Poliovirus
Pathovar, a classification scheme for bacteria
Polycythemia vera, a condition in which there is an increase in the number of red blood cells in the body
Per vaginam, through/via the vagina
Pemphigus vulgaris
Pyrovalerone, a stimulant drug

Principal value, a single-valued function in complex analysis
Cauchy principal value, a method for assigning values to certain improper integrals which would otherwise be undefined
Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number, often abbreviated as PV-number

Pamulaparti Venkatanarasimharao (1921–2004), former Prime Minister of India, popularly known as PV
Partido Verde (disambiguation), several political parties
Preferential voting (disambiguation), a category of electoral systems
Píratar á Vesturlandi, a regional arm of the Icelandic Pirate Party in West Iceland, commonly referred to as PV