BV

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

Bacterial vaginosis, the most common cause of vaginal infection
Bed volume, the volume of material in a vessel (e.g. of a catalyst in a vessel, or stationary phase in column chromatography)
Belch Vocalizations, the most common form of intra-group communication among the Mountain Gorilla
Binocular vision, vision in which both eyes are used together
Biological value, a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body
Blood vessel, part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body
Breakdown voltage, the minimum voltage that causes a portion of an insulator to become electrically conductive

Beaulieu Vineyard, a Napa Valley winery
Besloten vennootschap, a type of Dutch private limited liability company
Bicycle Victoria, an Australian bicycle advocacy organisation
Black & Veatch, a U.S.-based engineering, consulting and construction company
Boeing Vertol, predecessor to Boeing Rotorcraft Systems
Bowls Victoria, governing body for the sport of Bowls in the state of Victoria, Australia
Blue Panorama Airlines' IATA airline designator
Bottega Veneta, a manufacturer of luxury leather goods
BullionVault, an internet gold bullion exchange and physical storage provider
Bureau Veritas, a Testing, Inspection, Certification services company as well as a ship classification society

Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism, a concept in mathematical physics to construct gauge theories with open algebras of gauge symmetries and their quantization
Bounded variation, a concept in mathematical analysis
Bounding volume, computer graphics and computational geometry, a bounding volume for a set of objects is a closed volume that completely contains the union of the objects in the set

Backing vocal, in music, a vocal harmony with the lead vocalist provided by one or more backing vocalists
Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic), Mary, mother of Jesus, as venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
Boiling vessel, equipment provided to an armoured vehicle for heating food or water (chiefly British)
Book value, in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
Bouvet Island, an uninhabited South Atlantic sub-Antarctic volcanic island
- .bv, the inactive ccTLD for Bouvet Island
Bavarian B V, early German 2-4-0 locomotives of the Royal Bavarian State Railways
Lohner B.V, a variant of the Lohner B.II military reconnaissance aircraft

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