ABV
Translingual
Symbol
ABV
- (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, which serves Abuja, Nigeria.
English
Noun
ABV (countable and uncountable, plural ABVs)
- Initialism of alcohol by volume.
- Alternative form: abv
- Coordinate term: ABW
- At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.
- 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
- 2021 June 7, “Understanding Alcohol Proof: How Is Alcohol Proof Measured?”, in MasterClass[2]:
- U.S. law considers alcohol proof to be twice the ABV percentage.
- 2025 May 20, Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, “Is There a Least Bad Alcohol?”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 May 2025:
- If you’re choosing between two beers of the same size, for instance, and one is 4 percent A.B.V. and the other is 8 percent, the 4 percent beer will expose you to half as much ethanol. […] Some strong beers, for instance, have A.B.V.s that are higher than some wines (or even some liquors, on the extreme end).
- Initialism of American-born Vietnamese.