title: HV
text: # HV
  
  HV or hv or variant, is a two-letter acronym which 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 [da], 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
  