LAV
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LAV or Lav may refer to:
- Light armoured vehicles
- LAV-25, used by the United States Marine Corps
- LAV IIILAV IIIThe LAV III armoured vehicle is the latest in the Generation III Light Armoured Vehicle series built by General Dynamics Land Systems, entering service in 1999. It is based on the Swiss MOWAG Piranha IIIH 8x8....
, in service with the Canadian and New Zealand armed forces
- HIVHIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
(human immunodeficiency virus), formerly also called lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), the virus that causes AIDS - Local As View, a view-based query answering approach to data integrationData integrationData integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial and scientific domains...
- Lavalier microphoneLavalier microphoneA lavalier microphone or lavalier is a small electret or dynamic microphone used for television, theatre, and public speaking applications, in order to allow hands-free operation. They are most commonly provided with small clips for attaching to collars, ties, or other clothing...
- Load average, the average loadLoad (computing)In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time...
or amount of work that a computer system is doing over time - Lav pivoLav pivoLav pivo is a popular Serbian beer brand. Produced and bottled by Carlsberg Srbija in the village of Čelarevo, Bačka Palanka municipality, it has the second biggest market share among the beer brands in Serbia, behind rival Jelen pivo....
, a beer brand in Serbia - The Last American VirginThe Last American VirginThe Last American Virgin is a 1982 American coming-of-age film, a remake of the Israeli film Eskimo Limon .After the success of the original and several sequels, writer/director Boaz Davidson re-teamed with producers Golan-Globus to attempt to re-create the same success in the United States....
, a 1982 film - Leisure activity vehicleLeisure activity vehicleA leisure activity vehicle is a small van, generally related to a supermini or subcompact car, with two or three seat rows, and a large, tall car boot and tailgate. An early example of the category was the Matra Rancho introduced in 1977...
- Lav, an alternate name for LavaLava (Ramayana)Lava or Luv and his twin brother Kusha, were the children of the Lord Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is recounted in the Ramayana. Per that text, he is known as the founder of Lavapuri,that is, the modern day city of Lahore,...
, a son of the Hindu deity Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is told in the Ramayana - Lav, translation in some Slavic languages of the name Lev
- Línea Aeropostal Venezolana, an airline of Venezuela