BV

BV, B.V., Bv, bV, or bv may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

  • Backing vocal, in music, a vocal harmony with the lead vocalist provided by one or more backing vocalists
  • Busoni-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of compositions by Ferruccio Busoni

Companies and organizations

  • Beaulieu Vineyard, a Napa Valley winery
  • Besloten vennootschap, a type of Dutch private limited liability company. Dutch for "private company", similar to the American concept of a limited liability company.
  • Bicycle Victoria, an Australian bicycle advocacy organisation
  • Black & Veatch, a U.S.-based engineering, consulting and construction company
  • Blue Panorama Airlines (IATA airline designator)
  • Bottega Veneta, a manufacturer of luxury leather goods
  • Bureau Veritas, a testing, inspection, and certification company (stock symbol BV)

Science and medicine

Biology and medicine

  • Bacterial vaginosis, the most common cause of vaginal infection
  • Belch Vocalizations, the most common form of intra-group communication among the mountain gorilla
  • Biological value, a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body
  • Binocular vision, vision in which both eyes are used together
  • Blood vessel, part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body
  • Biovar, a rank below species often written as bv.

Mathematics and computing

  • Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism, a concept in mathematical physics to construct gauge theories
  • Bounded variation, a concept in mathematical analysis
  • Bounding volume, in computer graphics and computational geometry, a closed volume that completely contains the union of objects in the set

Other uses in science and technology

  • Bavarian B V, early German 2-4-0 type of locomotive of the Royal Bavarian State Railways
  • Bed volume, the volume of material in a vessel (e.g. of a catalyst in a vessel, or stationary phase in column chromatography)
  • Boiling vessel, equipment provided to an armoured vehicle for heating food or water (chiefly British)
  • Breakdown voltage, the minimum voltage that causes an insulator to become electrically conductive
  • Lohner B.V, a variant of the Lohner B.II military reconnaissance aircraft

Language

Places

Other uses

  • Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), Mary, mother of Jesus, as venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
  • Book value, in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
  • Bronze Star Medal with Valor
  • Bysshe Vanolis, pen-name of Scottish poet James Thomson

See also

  • B5 (disambiguation)
  • Buena Vista (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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