HV

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HV or hv or variant, is a two-letter acronym which may refer to:

Places

  • Burkina Faso (WMO country code HV, from the former French name, "Haute Volta" -- Upper Volta)
  • Hudson Valley, New York State, USA

Groups, companies, organizations

Military units

  • Heimevernet
    , a Norwegian military force
  • Hemvärnet
    , a Swedish military force
  • Hrvatska Vojska
    , the Croatian army
  • Hjemmevaernet [da], the Danish home guard

Electronics and electrics

  • High voltage, in electricity distribution
  • hectovolt (hV), a unit of 100 volts
  • Hasselblad HV
    , a digital system camera based on the Sony α SLT-A99V
  • Home video, pre-recorded media for home entertainment

Transportation

Science and technology

  • Absolute visual magnitude
    , or V-band magnitude, HV
  • Mitochondrial DNA
    Haplogroup HV
  • Hypervelocity star
    , an astronomical object or as a designation of such in a star catalogue
  • , light, in chemistry shorthand
  • Vickers Hardness
    , a hardness test

Other uses

  • Holcomb Valley Scout Ranch
  • Holiday village, a holiday resort where the visitors stay in villas
  • Hwair (ƕ), a Gothic letter, called hv in Unicode
  • Humanae vitae, a papal encyclical
  • High Valyrian
    , a fictional language used in the Song of Ice and Fire series by David J. Peterson

See also

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