V

V

(electricity)

electric potential

(chemistry)

vanadium

(electricity)

volt

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V

1. Abbr. for volt.

2. On drawings, abbr. for valve.

3. On drawings, abbr. for “vacuum.”

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V

A general acronym for velocity, which includes TAS (true air speed), EAS (equivalent air speed), and ASIR (air-speed indicator reading).

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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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