RV

See also: rv. and RV.

Translingual

Etymology

Initialism for German Ryom-Verzeichnis (“catalog”).

Proper noun

RV

1. (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

• Ryom-Verzeichnis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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English

Noun

RV (plural RVs or RV's)

1. (automotive) recreational vehicle
2. (space science) reentry vehicle
3. Initialism of Revised Version.
4. residual volume
5. (medicine) rectal varicosity
6. (military) rendez-vous, often in RV point, a position where units are to meet.
   • 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.

7. raw vegan
8. (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of right ventricle.

Derived terms

• MIRV
• MRV

See also

• (right ventricle): LA, LV, RA

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)

1. To travel in a recreational vehicle.
2. (military) To rendezvous.

   We'll RV at the crossroads in Brandon at twenty hundred.

Anagrams

• V. R., VR, v/r