CV
Encyclopedia
CV, Cv, or cv may refer to:
- Curriculum vitae, a summary of academic and professional history and achievements
Engineering, mathematics, and science
- Calorific value, the amount of heat released during the combustion of a substance
- Capacitance voltage profiling, a technique to characterize semiconductor materials and devices
- Cataclysmic variable starCataclysmic variable starCataclysmic variable stars are stars which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state...
, characterized by irregular and large increases in brightness - Coefficient of variationCoefficient of variationIn probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation is a normalized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution. It is also known as unitized risk or the variation coefficient. The absolute value of the CV is sometimes known as relative standard deviation , which is...
, a measure of dispersion of a probability distribution - Constant-velocity jointConstant-velocity jointConstant-velocity joints allow a drive shaft to transmit power through a variable angle, at constant rotational speed, without an appreciable increase in friction or play. They are mainly used in front wheel drive and all wheel drive cars...
, or CV-joint - Contractile vacuoleContractile vacuoleA contractile vacuole is a sub-cellular structure involved in osmoregulation. It is found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae. It was previously known as pulsatile or pulsating vacuole....
, an organelle found in some cells - CV/GateCV/GateCV/Gate is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines and other similar equipment with external sequencers. The Control Voltage typically controls pitch and the Gate signal controls note on/off....
, a control voltage and gate solution - Cyclic voltammetryCyclic voltammetryCyclic voltammetry or CV is a type of potentiodynamic electrochemical measurement. In a cyclic voltammetry experiment the working electrode potential is ramped linearly versus time like linear sweep voltammetry. Cyclic voltammetry takes the experiment a step further than linear sweep voltammetry...
, an electrochemical way of measuring - Cv, the flow coefficientFlow coefficientThe flow coefficient of a device is a relative measure of its efficiency at allowing fluid flow. It describes the relationship between the pressure drop across an orifice, valve or other assembly and the corresponding flow rate....
, used to determine the pressure-drop across an element in fluid flow applications
Organisations
- Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen StudentenverbindungenCartellverband der katholischen deutschen StudentenverbindungenThe Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen or Cartellverband is a German umbrella organization of Catholic male student fraternities .-Foundation:...
, a German umbrella organisation of Catholic student fraternities - Comando VermelhoComando VermelhoComando Vermelho is a Brazilian criminal organization founded in 1979 in the prison Cândido Mendes, on the Ilha Grande island, Rio de Janeiro, as a collection of ordinary convicts and left-wing political prisoners who were members of the Falange Vermelha , which fought the military dictatorship...
, a Brazilian criminal organization - Conversio ViriumConversio ViriumConversio Virium , the oldest university student-run BDSM education group in the United States, is the central Columbia University student organization that represents the college's collective population who engage in consensual BDSM and related activities...
, an education group of Columbia University
Other uses
- 105 (number)105 (number)105 is the natural number following 104 and preceding 106.-In mathematics:105 is a triangular number, a 12-gonal number and a Zeisel number. It is a sphenic number, and is the product of three consecutive prime numbers. 105 is the double factorial of 7...
in Roman numerals - Cee Vee, TexasCee Vee, TexasCee Vee is an unincorporated community in northwestern Cottle County, Texas, United States. It lies along FM 1440 northwest of the town of Paducah, the county seat of Cottle County. Its elevation is 1,880 feet , and it is located at...
- Central Vermont RailwayCentral Vermont RailwayThe Central Vermont Railway was a railroad that operated in the New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec....
, a railroad that operated in several New England states and in Quebec - Compensating variationCompensating variationIn economics, compensating variation is a measure of utility change introduced by John Hicks . 'Compensating variation' refers to the amount of additional money an agent would need to reach its initial utility after a change in prices, or a change in product quality, or the introduction of new...
, an economic concept of compensation for a price change - CV postcode area in the United Kingdom
- .cv.cv.cv is the country code top-level domain for Cape Verde. It is managed by the National Communications Agency...
, the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cape Verde - CargoluxCargoluxCargolux Airlines International S.A., trading as Cargolux, is a cargo airline with its head office on the grounds of Luxembourg – Findel Airport in Sandweiler, Luxembourg. It is one of the largest scheduled all-cargo airlines in Europe with a global network...
's IATA designator - Chuvash languageChuvash languageChuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....
's ISO 639-1 code - SeiyūSeiyuVoice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...
or character voice - CV (Consonant-Vowel), an open syllableSyllableA syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins .Syllables are often considered the phonological "building...
pattern in linguistics
See also
- Cross of Valour (disambiguation), various decoration
- CV-33 (disambiguation)