KV explained

KV may refer to:

Places

• Kosovo, an Eastern European country
• Kennebecasis Valley, a region in New Brunswick, Canada
• KV (Egyptology), Kings' Valley, tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

Companies and organizations

• KV Pharmaceutical, a drug company
• KV Racing Technology, an auto racing team
• KV, the IATA designator for Sky Regional Airlines
• Kendriya Vidyalaya, a system of schools for the children of public servants in India
• Khosla Ventures, an American venture capital firm
• Knattspyrnufélag Vesturbæjar, an Icelandic football club
• Kavminvodyavia, a Russian airline
• Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Swedish: Swedish: Kriminalvården), government agency
• Dutch; Flemish: Katholieke Verkenners (English:"Catholic Scouts"), part of Scouting Nederland

Science and technology

• Kv (flow factor), a measure of the flow factor of a liquid
• Kilovolt (kV), a unit of electric potential
• Motor velocity constant (K_v), of an electric motor
• Voltage-gated potassium channel (K_v), in cell biology
• Kv, a programming language implemented in Kivy
• Karnaugh-Veitch diagram, a logic optimization method
• key–value pair

Vehicles

• Kliment Voroshilov tank, a series of Soviet Second World War heavy tanks
• KV, prefix (NoCGV in English) for Norwegian Coast Guard vessels

Other uses

• Köchel-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of compositions by Mozart
• Komi language (ISO 639-1 code "kv"), spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia
• "KV" (fictional virus), the fictional viral plague from the 2007 film I Am Legend (film)

See also

• • • Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging (disambiguation)
• KVS (disambiguation)
• VK (disambiguation)
• V (disambiguation)
• K (disambiguation)