V (disambiguation)

V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet.

V may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

People and fictional characters

• V, a character of Devil May Cry
• V. Balakumaran (Tamil activist), a top leader of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) in Sri Lanka
• V (character), the protagonist of the comic book and film V for Vendetta
• V, the narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
• V, the protagonist of the video game Cyberpunk 2077
• V, the playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler

Film and television

• V (franchise), a science fiction franchise
  • V (1983 miniseries)
    • V (2009 TV series), a remake
  • V: The Final Battle, 1984
  • V (1984 TV series)
• V (TV network), now Noovo, in Québec, Canada
• V (Australian TV channel), or [V]
• Channel [V], in Asia
• V (2020 film), an Indian Telugu action thriller
• V (2021 film), an Indian Tamil horror drama
• The V logo for the Venezuelan television channel Venevisión

Gaming

• V (video game), based on the 1984 TV series
• VVVVVV, a 2010 video game by Terry Cavanagh

Literature

• "V" (poem), by Tony Harrison, 1985
• V (American magazine), launched in 1999
• V (Finnish magazine), 2006–2007
• V., a 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon
• V: The Second Generation, a 2008 novel based TV series
• V, the Vespasian manuscript of the Anglian collection
• "V" Is for Vengeance, a novel

Music

• V (group), a British boyband
• V (singer) (Kim Tae-hyung, born 1995), South Korean vocalist of BTS
• V (Vlad Radovanov, born c. 1971), American rapper in duo V & Legacy
• V Festival, an annual British music festival
  • V Festival (Australia)
• "V" (Lee Jung-hyun song), 2013

Albums

• V (Fate album) (2006)
• V (Havok album) (2020)
• V (Hiroyuki Sawano album), 2023
• V (jj album) (2014)
• V (Karma to Burn album) (2011)
• V (Legião Urbana album) (1991)
• V (Live album) (2001)
• V (Maroon 5 album) (2014)
• V (Saint Vitus album) (1990)
• V (Scale the Summit album) (2015)
• V (Spock's Beard album) (2000)
• V (The Bronx album), 2017
• V (The Fucking Champs album) (2002)
• V (The Horrors album) (2017)
• V (Van She album) (2008)
• V (Vanessa Hudgens album) (2006)
• V (Unknown Mortal Orchestra album) (2023)
• V (Wavves album) (2015)
• V. (album), by Wooden Shjips (2018)
• Five (Hollywood Undead album) (stylized as V)(2017)
• V – The New Mythology Suite (2000), by Symphony X
• V Live (album), a 2007 live album by Vitalic
• V, a 2019 album by Aaron Goodvin
• V, a cancelled album by Jonas Brothers
• V, a 1991 album by Steady B
• V, a 2016 album by Truckfighters
• V, a shelved album by Vanessa Amorosi
• V, a 2011 album by Vreid

Businesses and organizations

• Visa Inc., American financial services corporation whose stock ticker is V
• Ⓥ, symbol of Norwegian alcoholic beverage retailer Vinmonopolet
• Left Party (Sweden) (Vänsterpartiet), abbreviated V
• Venstre (Denmark), a political party, symbol V
• Venstre (Norway), a political party, symbol V

Language, grammar, linguistics and symbology

• V, Roman numeral for 5
• v, the symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiced labiodental fricative
• V sign, a hand gesture
• Dominant (music), in music theory the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale
• ∨, descending wedge
• v., abbreviation of von in German surnames
• v., abbreviation for versus used in legal case citation
• Verb, a part of speech
• Ⓥ, an enclosed alphanumeric
• ⓥ, a food label under vegetarian and vegan symbolism
• ∨, logical disjunction

Science and technology

Biology

• ATC code V (Various), a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
• Haplogroup V (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup
• Trigeminal nerve, the fifth cranial nerve, or CN V
• Valine, an α-amino acid
• V-moth, the moth Macaria wauaria
• Vaccine

Mathematics

• Von Neumann universe in set theory
• Verschiebung operator in algebraic group theory

Physics

• V band, the band of frequencies from 40 to 75 GHz
• V, voltage, an electric potential difference in a circuit
  • V, Volt, an SI unit
• Red projection in the YUV color encoding system
• v, v, v→, v, velocity
  • v, speed
• V number, the normalized frequency of an optical fiber
• V particle, an archaic name for a class of subatomic particles

Computing

• V (programming language)
• V (operating system), 1981–1988
• V-Model, a model for a software development process
• V, in Semaphore (programming)

Other uses in science and technology

• Vanadium, symbol V, a chemical element
• V engine, an internal combustion engine configuration
• v (vee), an obscure unit of measurement in typography

Transportation

• V (Los Angeles Railway), a streetcar service 1920–1963
• V (New York City Subway service), a former New York City Subway service
• The official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for:
  • Kansai Main Line.
  • Hakubi Line.
• Avro Vulcan, Handley Page Victor and Vickers Valiant, three British military aircraft collectively known as the V bombers

Other uses

• V (drink), an energy drink
• "V" device, an American military medal ribbon award
• V formation, of birds and airplanes
• Victor, military time zone for UTC−09
• Cadillac V series, high-performance vehicles
• Le V, a hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Aion V, a Chinese electric SUV

See also

• ν, the lower case Greek letter Nu
• V de V (disambiguation)
• VEE (disambiguation)
• versus (disambiguation)
• vs (disambiguation)
• V series (disambiguation)
• V for Vendetta (disambiguation)
• 5 (disambiguation)