HV

HV or Hv 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

• Transavia (IATA airline code HV)
• Hendrik Vermeulen, a South African fashion label

Military units

• Heimevernet, a Norwegian military force
• Hemvärnet, a Swedish military force
• Hrvatska Vojska, the Croatian army
• Hjemmevaernet, 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

• High Volume, a term often used for kayak sizes
• Hybrid vehicles, which use two or more distinct types of power
• Hydrogen vehicle, powered by hydrogen

Science and technology

• Absolute visual magnitude, or V-band magnitude, H_V
• Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup HV
• Hypervelocity star, an astronomical object or as a designation of such in a star catalogue
• hν, 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

• All pages with titles containing hV
• All pages with titles containing h-v
• All pages with titles beginning with Hv
• All pages with titles beginning with HV
• HV71, a Swedish ice hockey club