AV

AV, Av or A.V. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The abbreviation of audiovisual, possessing both a sound and a visual component
• A.V. (film), a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
• Adult video, an alternative name/synonym of a pornographic film
• AV The Hunt, a 2020 Turkish thriller film directed by Emre Akay

Businesses and organizations

• America Votes, an American 501(c)4 organization that promotes progressive causes
• Ambulance Victoria, an ambulance service operated in the Australian state of Victoria
• Anonymous for the Voiceless, a grassroots animal rights organization specializing in street activism
• Aston Villa F.C., an English professional football club
• AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing (now OmniScriptum)
• Avaya, a technology company formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol "AV"
• Avianca (IATA airline code AV)
• Aviva, British insurance company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange as "AV"
• AeroVironment, manufacturer of unmanned military aircraft and systems
• Amusement Vision, the former name of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

People

• Av or Avrum Gross (1936–2018), American lawyer and Attorney General of Alaska
• Av or Avrom Isaacs (1926–2016), Canadian art dealer
• Av Westin (1929–2022), American television producer

Places

• Anguilla (FIPS country code and obsolete NATO diagram AV)
• Antelope Valley, a valley in Southern California
• Province of Avellino, a province of Italy

Science and technology

Anatomy and medicine

• Aerobic vaginitis, vaginal infection associated with overgrowth of aerobic bacteria
• Arteriovenous (disambiguation)
• Atrioventricular (disambiguation)

Electronics and computing

• Access violation, a computer software error
• Age verification, system for checking a user's age
• Antivirus software, used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software
• Audio and video connector, a cable between two devices
• Analog video
• AV Linux, a Linux-based operating system

Fluid dynamics

• Annular velocity, speed of the drilling fluid's movement in a column called an annulus in oil wells
• Apparent viscosity, shear stress divided by shear rate

Vehicles

• AV (cyclecar), a British cyclecar manufactured between 1919 and 1924
• Bavarian A V, an 1853 steam locomotive model
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Seaplane tender (AV)
• Autonomous vehicles

Other uses in science and technology

• A-type main-sequence star, in astronomy, abbreviated A V
• Aperture value mode, setting on photo cameras that allows to choose a specific aperture value

Other uses

• Alternative vote, an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates
• Approval voting, a non-ranking vote system
• Authorised Version of the Bible (also known as King James Version)
• Av (month), a month in the Hebrew calendar
• av, the Avar language's ISO 639-1 code
• Av. or Ave, an abbreviation for Avenue (landscape)
• Ꜹ or AV from Latin aurum (avrvm), a numismatic abbreviation for "gold"
• A.V., the putative mark of ébéniste Adam Weisweiler
• Aviation, abbreviated Av in military use
• Andhra Vidyalaya College, aka A. V. College, a school in Hyderabad, India

See also

• 2023 AV, an asteroid that passed closed to the Earth in 2023
• A5 (disambiguation)
• α5 (disambiguation)
• AV idol, a type of Japanese porn star
• All pages with titles beginning with AV
• All pages with titles containing AV