CVA
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The abbreviation CVA can refer to:
Schools
Medicine
Veterinary
Military
Financial
Other
Schools
- Carrabassett Valley AcademyCarrabassett Valley Academy-About:Carrabassett Valley Academy is a private alpine skiing, snowboard and freestyle academy based in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, at the base of Sugarloaf/USA. Established in 1982, the school has trained and schooled the likes of Olympic competitors Bode Miller, Seth Wescott, Kirsten Clark and...
, a ski and snowboard academy based in Carrabassett ValleyCarrabassett Valley, MaineCarrabassett Valley is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 761 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water...
, Maine - College of Visual ArtsCollege of Visual ArtsThe College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a private, accredited, four-year college of art and design offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary design studies, and photography. The fine arts degree offers concentrations in...
, a four-year private college in Minnesota - Conservatorium van AmsterdamConservatorium van AmsterdamThe Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a Dutch academy of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the city's vocational university of arts...
(CvA), a conservatory of music in the Netherlands - Contextual value addedContextual value addedContextual value added is a statistic used by the government of the United Kingdom to assess the performance of schools.The statistic is intended to show the progress children have made whilst attending a particular school...
, CVA is a statistic used by the government of the United Kingdom to assess the performance of schools - Cyber Village AcademyCyber Village AcademyCyber Village Academy is a public charter school, chartered in 1997. It is located at 768 Hamline Ave S, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, for students grades 3 through 12. The school uses various forms of E-Learning. 2010-2011 school year had 130 students enrolled in grades 3-11...
, a charter school in Saint Paul, MinnesotaSaint Paul, MinnesotaSaint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
Medicine
- Cerebrovascular accident, also known as a strokeStrokeA stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
- Cough-variant asthma, a form of asthma in which the main symptom is a chronic cough
- Costovertebral angle, the acute angle formed between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column
Veterinary
- Certified Veterinary Assistant
Military
- CVA, the United States NavyUnited States NavyThe United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
's hull classification symbolHull classification symbolThe United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...
for attack aircraft carrierAircraft carrierAn aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
s (CV being the symbol for "aircraft carrier," and A for "attack"); e.g., USS United States (CVA-58)USS United States (CVA-58)USS United States , the third ship of the United States Navy named for the nation, but canceled during construction, was to be the lead ship of a new design of aircraft carrier. On 29 July 1948 President Harry Truman approved construction of five "supercarriers", for which funds had been provided... - CVA-01CVA-01The CVA-01 aircraft carrier was to be a class of at least two fleet carriers that would have replaced the Royal Navy's existing aircraft carriers, most of which had been designed prior to or during World War II....
, a class of British aircraft carriers planned for the post–World War II era but ultimately cancelled - Cape Town Volunteer Artillery, the original name of the Cape Field ArtilleryCape Field ArtilleryThe Cape Field Artillery is an artillery regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Territorial Army or United States Army National Guard unit...
regiment of South Africa
Financial
- Collateral Valuation AdjustmentCollateral Valuation AdjustmentsCollateral valuation adjustment or appraisal subordination entitlement reduction are CMBS structuring innovations designed to improve overall transaction credit quality. Collateral valuation adjustments were created in response to rating agency concerns that, without such an adjustment, cash...
, a concept in debt restructuring - Credit Value Adjustment, a credit component of FAS 157 Fair Valuation
- Certified Valuation Analyst, a specialist in business valuation standardBusiness valuation standardBusiness Valuation Standards are codes of practice that are used in business valuation. Each of the three major United States valuation societies — the American Society of Appraisers , , and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts — has its own set of Business...
s certified by the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts - Company voluntary arrangement, for companies in insolvency
Other
- CVA (album)CVA (album)CVA is the debut full-length album from Philadelphia, PA's Paint It Black. It features much shorter and arguably more aggressive songs than their follow-up album, Paradise, two and a half minutes shorter despite sporting three more tracks...
, an album by the hardcore band Paint It BlackPaint It Black (band)Paint It Black is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based modern hardcore punk band. Their music is often described as melodic hardcore, characterized by fast tempos, catchy melodies and emotionally charged vocals delivered via shouting and singing... - Christian Vegetarian AssociationChristian Vegetarian AssociationThe Christian Vegetarian Association is an international, non-denominational Christian ministry that promotes responsible stewardship of God's creation through plant-based eating...
, an organization that promotes Christian vegetarianism - Corpus vasorum antiquorumCorpus vasorum antiquorumCorpus Vasorum Antiquorum is an international research project for ceramic documentation of the classical area.CVA is the first and oldest research project of the Union Académique Internationale of France. The first project meeting was organized by Edmond Pottier in Paris in 1919. The final...
, an international research project documenting ancient ceramic pottery collections - Conservation Volunteers AustraliaConservation Volunteers AustraliaConservation Volunteers Australia is an Australian not-for-profit conservation organisation that attracts and coordinates volunteers for environmental restoration projects.- History :...
, an Australian organization to provide better environment - cis-vaccenyl acetate, an insect pheromone