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''AV'' ▫ᴱᴺ|Definition|1st|20260218114101-00-⌔
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English
Adjective
AV (not comparable)
- Initialism of audiovisual.
- ✤ * AV education*
- ✤ * AV room*
- ✤ The individual responsible, a member of TPUSA’s AV team, was let go in the wake of the incident.1
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of atrioventricular.
- ✤ * AV block*
- ✤ * AV node*
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of arteriovenous.
- ✤ * AV anastomosis*
- ✤ * AV fistula*
- (mortuary technology) Initialism of anal/vaginal.
- ✤ * AV plugs are used to seal cadaver orifices to prevent embalming fluid spillage.*
- (Internet slang) Initialism of age verified.
Noun
AV (countable and uncountable, plural AVs)
- (computing) Initialism of access violation.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of age verification.
- (politics) Initialism of alternative vote.
- (computing) Initialism of antivirus.
- (vehicles) Initialism of autonomous vehicle.
- (grammar) Initialism of auxiliary verb.
- (uncountable, paraphilia) Initialism of anal vore.
Proper noun
AV
- Initialism of Authorized Version, a translation of the Bible.
- ✤ in the AV of the OT
Noun
AV (plural AVs)
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of Auxiliary Voler, a naval aircraft transport.
- ✤ Coordinate terms: AVP, CV, CVE, CVL, CVN
Noun
AV (plural AVs)
- (Japanese pornography) Initialism of adult video (“video pornography”).
- ✤ Hyponym: JAV
Etymology 1
Abbreviations.
Etymology 2
From French auxiliaire voler.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Japanese AV (adaruto bideo), from English adult video.
Printed 2026-06-28.
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Link to original Footnotes
2019 July 25, Betsy Klein, “Trump appears in front of doctored seal with Russian and golf imagery, TPUSA aide fired”, in CNN : ↩
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