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<h2 id="businesses-and-organizations">Businesses and organizations</h2> <h3>In transportation</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Motor_vessel/Wuqwc1MF">Motor vessel</a>, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names</li> <li><a href="/facts/MV_Agusta/RGEY657x">MV Agusta</a>, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy</li> <li><a href="/facts/Armenian_International_Airways/dll8lR6k">Armenian International Airways</a> (IATA code MV)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Metropolitan-Vickers/jhnHBRU8">Metropolitan-Vickers</a>, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer</li> <li><a href="/facts/Midland_Valley_Railroad/jhenA1z5">Midland Valley Railroad</a>, United States (reporting mark MV)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Merchant_ship/Pg3Pa3EY">Merchant vessel</a>, ship prefix</li></ul> <h3>Other organizations</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Mieterverband/8QIhEQoA">Mieterverband</a>, a Swiss tenant organization</li> <li><a href="/facts/Millennium_Volunteers/I9vhLWnf">Millennium Volunteers</a>, a former UK government initiative</li> <li><a href="/facts/Minnesota_Vikings/BvYzMuoJ">Minnesota Vikings</a>, an American football team</li> <li><a href="/facts/Miss_Venezuela/T8y0f29y">Miss Venezuela</a>, a beauty pageant</li> <li><a href="/facts/Museum_Victoria/RMazNmSD">Museum Victoria</a>, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia</li></ul> <h2 id="places">Places</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Martha%2527s_Vineyard/xGt6P3X2">Martha's Vineyard</a>, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts</li> <li><a href="/facts/Maldives/sC2HeXby">Maldives</a> (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/9eYnXcY4">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</a>, a German state at the Baltic Sea</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mountain_View%2c_California/dm29hKlV">Mountain View</a>, a city in California, US</li></ul> <h2 id="people">People</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/M._Visvesvaraya/gNCFY9r3">M. Visvesvaraya</a>, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV</li> <li><a href="/facts/MV_(footballer)/10ATUKdl">MV (footballer)</a>, nickname of Marcos Vinicius Silvestre Gaspar (born 1998), Brazilian football forward</li></ul> <h2 id="in-science-and-technology">In science and technology</h2> <h3>Biology and medicine</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Maedi-visna/m1oVzWn4">Maedi-visna</a>, a sheep disease</li> <li><a href="/facts/Malvidin/az2VBexe">Malvidin</a>, an anthocyanidin</li> <li><a href="/facts/Measles_virus/96sVRzuL">Measles virus</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mechanical_ventilation/XSQ84JX9">Mechanical ventilation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Minute_volume/wAzm04yQ">Minute volume</a>, the volume of air that can be inhaled or exhaled in one minute</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mitral_valve/GzQsvXLL">Mitral valve</a>, a valve in the heart connecting the left atrium and left ventricle</li></ul> <h3>Computing</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Mv_(Unix)/BScugd1B">mv (Unix)</a>, a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another</li> <li><a href="/facts/.mv/JRjuClw7">.mv</a>, top level domain country code for the Republic of Maldives</li> <li><a href="/facts/MainView/BNqusrJd">MainView</a>, a business automation software</li> <li><a href="/facts/Materialized_view/eJhoKA2Q">Materialized view</a>, a database object that contains the results of a query</li></ul> <h3>Other uses in science and technology</h3> <ul><li>MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000 <a href="/facts/Volt/KF18MXP2">volts</a>, a measure of electrical potential</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mendelevium/bEHBu18F">Mendelevium</a>, a chemical element with former symbol Mv</li> <li>mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a <a href="/facts/Volt/KF18MXP2">volt</a>, a measure of electrical potential</li> <li>mv (<i>mass × velocity</i>), <a href="/facts/Momentum/TTkGv5eY">momentum</a> in physics</li> <li>Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify <a href="/facts/Molar_mass_distribution/Bh3Fsd4r">molar mass distribution</a> in chemistry</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mesovortex/kJs5MxnC">Mesovortex</a>, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones</li> <li><a href="/facts/Microwave/HmVSN31Y">Microwave</a>, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing</li> <li>MV is the <a href="/facts/Absolute_magnitude/R8RVxkLx">absolute magnitude</a> of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband</li> <li><a href="/facts/M-V/tGa6NrNl">M-V</a>, Japanese space rocket</li> <li><a href="/facts/Machine_vision/8kvmXVcA">Machine vision</a></li></ul> <h2 id="other-uses">Other uses</h2> <ul><li>MV, <a href="/facts/Roman_numeral/7BA8nn78">Roman numeral</a> for <a href="/facts/1005_(number)/b3LRnMBK">1005</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Market_value/fmXJAkhw">Market value</a>, the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting</li> <li>"<a href="/facts/Moist_Vagina/AXyoNbkP">Moist Vagina</a>", a song by grunge band Nirvana on their single <i><a href="/facts/All_Apologies/AXyoNbkP">All Apologies</a></i></li> <li><a href="/facts/Music_video/FccodeNC">Music video</a>, a production which combines a piece of music and video clips for artistic purposes</li> <li><a href="/facts/Meaningful_vote/7VX83WvD">Meaningful vote</a>, on Brexit</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Mezza_voce/YxrBBtBG">mezza voce</a></i> ('half-voice') with subdued or moderated volume in a musical score</li> <li>MV, an advisory label for mild violence in the <a href="/facts/United_States_pay_television_content_advisory_system/3SnUKABK">United States pay television content advisory system</a></li></ul>