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V, v       [vee] Pronunciation Key,
–noun, plural V's or Vs, v's or vs.
1.the 22nd letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2.any spoken sound represented by the letter V or v, as in victor, flivver, or shove.
3.something having the form of a V.
4.a written or printed representation of the letter V or v.
5.a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter V or v.
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V
1.vagabond.
2.Mathematics. vector.
3.velocity.
4.verb.
5.victory.
6.Electricity. volt; volts.
7.vowel.
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V
Symbol.
1.the 22nd in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the 21st.
2.(sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for five. Compare Roman numerals.
3.Chemistry. vanadium.
4.Biochemistry. valine.
5.Physics. electric potential.
6.(esp. during World War II) the symbol of Allied victory.
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v
1.variable.
2.velocity.
3.vicinal.
4.victory.
5.Electricity. volt; volts.
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V.
1.valve.
2.Venerable.
3.verb.
4.verse.
5.version.
6.versus.
7.very.
8.Vicar.
9.vice.
10.see. [Origin: < L vidé]
11.Village.
12.violin.
13.Virgin.
14.Viscount.
15.vision.
16.visual acuity.
17.vocative.
18.volume.
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v.
1.valve.
2.(in personal names) van.
3.vector.
4.vein.
5.ventral.
6.verb.
7.verse.
8.version.
9.verso.
10.versus.
11.very.
12.vicar.
13.vice.
14.see. [Origin: < L vidé]
15.village.
16.violin.
17.vision.
18.vocative.
19.voice.
20.volt.
21.voltage.
22.volume.
23.(in personal names) von.
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potential difference  
n.   Symbol V
The amount of energy per unit charge needed to move a charged particle from a reference point to a designated point in a static electric field; voltage. Also called potential.

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v or V       (vē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. v's or V's also vs or Vs
  1. The 22nd letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter v.
  3. The 22nd in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter V.

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V 1  
  1. The symbol for the element vanadium.
  2. Electricity The symbol for potential difference.
  3. also v The symbol for the Roman numeral 5.

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V 2  
abbr.  
  1. velocity
  2. victory
  3. vocative
  4. volt
  5. volume
  6. vowel

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va·na·di·um       (və-nā'dē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Symbol V
A bright white, soft, ductile metallic element found in several minerals, notably vanadinite and carnotite, having good structural strength and used in rust-resistant high-speed tools, as a carbon stabilizer in some steels, as a titanium-steel bonding agent, and as a catalyst. Atomic number 23; atomic weight 50.942; melting point 1,890°C; boiling point 3,000°C; specific gravity 6.11; valence 2, 3, 4, 5. See Table at element.


[From Old Norse Vanadīs, the goddess Freya; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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verb       (vûrb)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Abbr. V or vb.
    1. The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
    2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, as be, run, or conceive.
  2. A phrase or other construction used as a verb.


[Middle English verbe, from Old French, from Latin verbum, word, verb (translation of Greek rhēma, word, verb); see wer-5 in Indo-European roots.]

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volt 1       (vōlt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. V
The International System unit of electric potential and electromotive force, equal to the difference of electric potential between two points on a conducting wire carrying a constant current of one ampere when the power dissipated between the points is one watt. See Table at measurement.


[After Count Alessandro Volta.]

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vol·ume       (vŏl'yōōm, -yəm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.
    2. One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.
    3. A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.
    4. A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.
    5. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
    6. The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
    7. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
    8. A large amount. Often used in the plural: volumes of praise.
    9. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
    10. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.
  2. A roll of parchment; a scroll.
  3. Abbr. V
    1. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.
    2. The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.
    3. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
    4. A large amount. Often used in the plural: volumes of praise.
    5. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
    6. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.
    1. Amount; quantity: a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.
    2. A large amount. Often used in the plural: volumes of praise.
    3. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
    4. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.
    1. The amplitude or loudness of a sound.
    2. A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin volūmen, roll of writing, from volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

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V 
In M.E., -u- and -v- were used interchangeably, though with a preference for v- as the initial letter (vnder, vain, etc.) and -u- elsewhere (full, euer, etc.). The distinction into consonant and vowel identities was established in Eng. by 1630, under influence of continental printers, but into 19c. some dictionaries and other catalogues continued to list -u- and -v- words as a single series. No native Anglo-Saxon words begin in v- except those (vane, vat, vixen) altered by the southwestern England habit of replacing initial f- with v- (and initial s- with z-). Confusion of -v- and -w- was also a characteristic of 16c. Cockney accents. In Ger. rocket weapons systems of WWII, it stood for Vergeltungswaffe "reprisal weapon." V-eight as a type of motor engine is recorded from 1930 (V-engine is attested from 1924), so called for the arrangement. The V for "victory" hand sign was conceived Jan. 1941 by Belgian politician and resistance leader Victor de Laveleye, to signify Fr. victorie and Flem. vrijheid ("freedom"). It was broadcast into Europe by Radio België/Radio Belgique and popularized by the BBC by June 1941, from which time it became a universal allied gesture.

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v

adjective
1. being one more than four [syn: five] 

noun
1. a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: volt] 
2. a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite [syn: vanadium] 
3. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one 
4. the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet 

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V  
  1. The symbol for vanadium.
  2. The symbol for voltage.
  3. Abbreviation of volume

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vanadium       (və-nā'dē-əm)  Pronunciation Key 
Symbol V
A soft, bright-white metallic element that occurs naturally in several minerals. It has good structural strength and is used especially to make strong varieties of steel. Atomic number 23; atomic weight 50.942; melting point 1,890°C; boiling point 3,000°C; specific gravity 6.11; valence 2, 3, 4, 5. See Periodic Table.

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v abbr.
venous blood (used as a subscript)

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V
The symbol for the element vanadium.

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V

Abbr. volt

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V

A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that it is when-issued or when-distributed.

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Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock.

See also: Nasdaq, Stock Symbol, When Issued (WI)

Also spelled: V

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V
Upper case V, ASCII character 86, known in INTERCAL as book.
1. A testbed for distributed system research.
2. Wide-spectrum language used in the knowledge-based environment CHI. "Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at Kestrel Inst", D.R. Smith et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-11(11):1278-1295 (1985).

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V

V\ (v[=e]). 1. V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like English w) and as a vowel. The Latin derives it from it from a form (V) of the Greek vowel [Upsilon] (see Y), this Greek letter being either from the same Semitic letter as the digamma F (see F), or else added by the Greeks to the alphabet which they took from the Semitic. Etymologically v is most nearly related to u, w, f, b, p; as in vine, wine; avoirdupois, habit, have; safe, save; trover, troubadour, trope. See U, F, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 265; also [sect][sect] 155, 169, 178-179, etc.

2. As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin.

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V
  1. 5
  2. potential
  3. vanadium
  4. Vatican City (international vehicle ID)
  5. velocity
  6. verb
  7. very
  8. victory
  9. violence (television rating)
  10. vocative
  11. volt
  12. volume
  13. vowel

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