OV explained

Ov or OV may refer to:

Places

• Ocean View, Virginia, a community in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
• Oost-Vlaanderen (East Flanders), a province in Flanders, Belgium
• Oro Valley, a town in Arizona, United States of America
• Overijssel, a province in the Netherlands

People

• Alexander Ovechkin, NHL hockey player
• Orifice Vulgatron, a member of the rap group Foreign Beggars

Brands

• Organic Valley, one of the world's largest organic food brands

Organizations

• SalamAir, a low cost airline from Oman (IATA code OV)
• Orange Volunteers, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland

Arts and entertainment

• Original voice, the original voice of a motion picture
• OV, a 2005 album by Orthrelm
• OVGuide, a website aggregator

Science and technology

• Orbiter Vehicle, a term for a NASA Space Shuttle
• Orbiting Vehicle, a series of satellites operated by the US Air Force
• OpenView, an HP network and systems management software product
• OV, a Japanese scale for basal body temperature.
• Organization validation, a type of public key certificate

Linguistics

• A suffix found in surnames of Bulgarian and Russian men; see Russian names and Bulgarian names
• openbaar vervoer (Dutch for "public transport"), as in OV-chipkaart

Other uses

• In the Bible, one of two forms of prohibited witchcraft; see Ov and Yidoni
• Old Vienna, a beer

See also

• Orbital vehicle (disambiguation)