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''AV'' ▫ᴱᴺ|Definition|1st|20260218114101-00-⌔

AV - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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Footnotes

  1. 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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