LAV explained

LAV or Lav may refer to:

Persons

Lav, an alternative name for Lava (Ramayana), a son of the Hindu deity Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is told in the Ramayana
Lav, translation in some Slavic languages of the name Lev
Luis Antonio Valencia, Manchester United winger
Lav (singer), the stage name of American singer-songwriter Kalea Little.

Lavalier microphone, a small microphone with a clip for attaching to clothing
software packages for encoding and decoding video and audio files:
- LAV Filters, a set of open-source DirectShow filters based on FFmpeg
- Libav, a free software project forked from FFmpeg
- libavcodec, an audio/video codec library provided by FFmpeg and Libav
Live Attenuated vaccine, a vaccine with weakened but still living pathogen
Load average, the average of Load (computing)
Local As View, a view-based query answering approach to data integration
Lymphadenopathy-associated virus, a former name for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

Leisure activity vehicle, a car classification
Light Armored Vehicle, another term for armored car (military)
LAV (armored vehicle), series of armored vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems, Canada
- LAV I, or Armored Vehicle General Purpose 6x6
- LAV II, 8x8 vehicle
  - LAV-25, used by the United States Marine Corps
- LAV III, 8x8 vehicle
- LAV 6, modernization of the LAV III
Cadillac Cage light armored vehicles:
- Commando V-150 sometimes referred to as the LAV-150
- Commando V-200 sometimes referred to as the LAV-200
- LAV-300
- LAV-600
Komatsu LAV, a Japanese armored car, unrelated to the Canadian LAV