CV explained

CV, Cv, or cv may refer to:

• Curriculum vitae, a summary of academic and professional history and achievements

CV, Cv, or cv may also refer to:

Businesses and organisations

• Cargolux (IATA designator CV)
• Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen, a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities
• Central Vermont Railway, a railway that operated in the New England states
• Christian Voice (UK)
• Comando Vermelho, a Brazilian criminal organization
• Conversio Virium, a student group at Columbia University

Computing and electronics

• Capacitance voltage profiling, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices
• Computer vision, methods of extracting information and meaning from images and video
• Constant voltage source, electrical description
• CV/Gate, a control voltage and gate solution

Literature and media

• CV (novel), a novel by Damon Knight
• Character voice, or CV
• CV Network, a defunct Spanish-language television network in the United States
• Producciones Cinevisión, formerly CV-TV, a Colombian Spanish; Castilian: programadora

Medicine

• Contractile vacuole, an organelle found in some cells
• Coronavirus, a type of virus, notably:
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus causing the 2019–2020 outbreak
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
  • COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing pandemic
• Conduction velocity, the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway

Places

• .cv, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde
• Cee Vee, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States
• CV postcode area, postcode area within the United Kingdom

Other technical terms

• C_v, the flow coefficient, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications
• c_v, the specific heat of a material at constant volume
• Calorific value, the amount of heat released during the combustion of a substance
• Cataclysmic variable star, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness
• Coefficient of variation, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution
• Compensating variation, an economic concept of compensation for a price change
• Constant-velocity joint, or CV-joint
• Control volume, a presumed volume for analysing the thermodynamic state of a system
• Consonantvowel, an open-syllable pattern in linguistics
• Cultivated variety or cultivar, once commonly abbreviated cv., now officially deprecated but widely used and recommended
• Cyclic voltammetry, an electrochemical way of measuring
• Chemical formula of vanadium carbide

Other uses

• CV (tax horsepower), a French and Italian system of car taxation
• CV, the Hull classification symbol for aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy
• 105 (number), Roman numerals representation of CV
• Chuvash language, a Turkic language of Russia (ISO 639-1 code CV)
• Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decorations
• International CV, a rebadged medium duty Chevrolet Silverado

See also

• C5 (disambiguation), including a list of topics named C.V., etc.