PV

PV

1. (metrology) Symbol for petavolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10¹⁵ volts.

Abbreviation.

• Sense "promotional video" is a borrowing from Japanese PV (PV, “promotional video”), from English promotional + video.

PV (countable and uncountable, plural PVs)

1. (countable) Initialism of probation violation.
2. (countable, control theory) Initialism of process variable.
3. (uncountable) Initialism of pharmacovigilance.
4. (countable, Japan) Initialism of promotional video.
5. (countable, grammar) Initialism of phrasal verb.
6. (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of polycythemia vera.
7. (uncountable, medicine) Initialism of pemphigus vulgaris.
8. (countable, finance) Initialism of present value.

PV (not comparable)

1. Initialism of photovoltaic.
   • 2017, Adrian Tantau, Robert Staiger, editors, Business Models for Renewable Energy Initiatives […] , IGI Global, →ISBN, page 71:

     The demand for PV systems has grown by an average of 30% per year over the period 1990–2010, on the background of cost reduction (Solar Energy, 2011; Paicu & Regneala, 2013).

2. (medicine) Initialism of pervaginal.

PV (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of per vaginam.

• VP, vp

PV m (plural PV)

1. (law) abbreviation of procès-verbal
2. (gaming) abbreviation of point de vie (“health”)

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PV

1. (apartment listing) abbreviation of Provision

Borrowed from English PV, Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) initialism of promotional +‎ video. By surface analysis, プロモーション (puromōshon) +‎ ビデオ (bideo).

PV(ピーブイ) • (pībui) 

1. promotional video

• MV (MV, “music video”)
• CM (CM, “commercial message”)