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Translingual
Etymology
Initialism for German Ryom-Verzeichnis (“Ryom-Catalog”).
Proper noun
RV
- (music) Initialism, used in combination with a reference number to indicate a particular work of music by Antonio Vivaldi according to a catalog originally assembled by Danish musicologist Peter Ryom.
Further reading
English
Proper noun
RV
- (biblical) Initialism of Revised Version.
Noun
RV (plural RVs or RV's)
- (US, automotive) Initialism of recreational vehicle.
2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 67:Mostly old and pensioned, theyʼd troll the streets in their out-of-state license-plated RVs looking for the last link to their youths.
2021 August 23, Jay Caspian Kang, “Zen and the Art of #VanLife Influencing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:According to Outdoorsy, an R.V. share app, millennial R.V. rental bookings went up 70 percent from 2019 to 2020.
- (astronautics) Initialism of reentry vehicle.
- Hyponyms: MRV, MIRV
- Coordinate terms: LV, SLV
- (transport) Abbreviation of return vehicle.
- Hyponym: ERV
- (nautical) Initialism of research vessel.
- Synonyms: R/V, R./V., R.V., R. V., RS, R.S., R. S., R./S., R/S
- (military) Initialism of rendezvous, a position where units are to meet.
RV point
- 2007 Pte John Catterson, Army The Soldiers Newspaper, The Australian Army (Retrieved 14 July 2009)
- Once all mounted up, the two multiples sped off to the emergency RV point.
- Initialism of raw vegan.
- (physiology) Initialism of residual volume.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of right ventricle.
- (medicine) Initialism of rectal varicosity.
- (politics) Initialism of registered voter.
- (statistics) Initialism of random variable.
- Abbreviation of rhinovirus.
Derived terms
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Verb
RV (third-person singular simple present RVs or RV's, present participle RVing or RV'ing or RV-ing, simple past and past participle RVed or RV'd or RV'ed)
- To travel in a recreational vehicle.
- (military) To rendezvous.
- We'll RV at the crossroads in Brandon at twenty hundred.
Anagrams
Japanese
Etymology
From English RV.
Pronunciation
Noun
RV • (ārubui)
- an RV; a recreational vehicle
2013, Autodoa tatsujin-tachi no kyanpingu kā to ōto kyanpu jutsu [Outdoor experts’ camping car and car-camping techniques], page 127:
- 日本RV協会が提唱するRVパークとは、クルマ旅を快適に楽しむ
- Nihon Ārubui Kyōkai ga teishō suru ārubui pāku to wa, kuruma tabi o kaiteki ni tanoshimu
- An RV park recommend by the Japan RV Association is a comfortable place to enjoy automobile travel
- an SUV; a sport utility vehicle
1998, Oyamada Ryōzō, Sekai o sasaeru Nihon gijutsu [Japanese products that sustain the world], page 21:
- 新製品開発によるものであり、トヨタやホンダではRV(レジャー用多目的車)が伸びたこと、家電ソニー(二七位)のミニディスクなどのデジタルAV
- Shinseihin kaihatsu ni yoru mono deari, Toyota ya Honda de wa ārubui (rejā yō tamokuteki kuruma) ga nobita koto, kaden Sonī (nijūnanai) no Minidisuku nado no dejitaru ēbui
- This is due to the growth of new product development, such as SUVs (sport utility multipurpose vehicles) from Toyota and Honda, and home electronics such as Sony’s (27th place) minidisc digital audio player