MV explained

MV may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

• Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names
• 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, United States (reporting mark MV)
• Merchant vessel, ship prefix

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
• Mountain View, a city in California, US

People

• M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV

In science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Maedi-visna, a sheep disease
• Malvidin, an anthocyanidin
• Measles virus
• Mechanical ventilation
• 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 (Unix), 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 (mass × velocity), momentum in physics
• Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify molar mass distribution in chemistry
• Mesovortex, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones
• Microwave, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing
• M_V is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband
• M-V, Japanese space rocket
• Machine vision

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
• Music video, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes
• Meaningful vote, on Brexit
• mezza voce ('half-voice') with subdued or moderated volume in a musical score
• MV, an advisory label for mild violence in the United States pay television content advisory system