Abbreviations & Acronyms
Abbreviation:
An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or a phrase (group of words).
The result of abbreviation is a reduced form or abridgement of writing. They are commonly used because they save time and space.
As said by John Horne Tooke, “Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury.
Examples:
ATM = Automated Teller Machine
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
Acronym:
It is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word.
Examples:
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Most Common Abbreviations & Acronyms with letter ‘V’
V
| V / v | Vatican City (IVR = International Vehicle Registration) / violence / Vatu (currency of Vanuatu; also VT) / 5 (Roman numeral) / Victory / Vanadium (chemical element) / Volt (electricity – SI unit) / Velocity / A ($5) five dollar note (US) / Versicle (Ecclesiastical) / Velocity / Verb / Verse / Verso / Versus / Very / Volume / Vide (Latin) = see |
| V– | 5000 (Roman numeral) |
| V-1 | Vergeltungswaffe-1 (German) = A type of German flying bomb used in the Second World War (reprisal weapon) |
| V-2 | Vergeltungswaffe-2 = A type of German rocket-powered missile used in the Second World War (reprisal weapon) |
| VA | Vicar Apostolic / Vice-Admiral / Virginia (US state; also Va.) / (Royal Order of) Victoria and Albert (Britain) / Veteran’s administration (US) / Visual acuity |
| V and A/V&A | The Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| VAD | Voluntary Aid Detachment (volunteer-nurses, esp. in wartime) |
| vag | Vrranat / vagrancy (US) (slang) |
| VB | Visual Basic |
| vb | Verb |
| VBIED | Vehicle-borne improvised explosive device |
| VC | Vice-chancellor / Vice-Chairman / Victoria Cross / Vice Consul / Viet Cong. / Venture capital |
| VCH | Victoria County History (or Histories) |
| V-chip | Viewer chip (a device installed in a TV set to control TV programs) |
| vCJD | (new) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
| VCR | Video cassette recorder (VCRs – plural) |
| VCT | Venture capital trust |
| VD | Venereal disease / Volunteer Decoration |
| vd | Various dates |
| V-Day/VE day | Victory Day (esp. with ref. to the allied victory in Second World War) |
| VDQS | Vins delimites de qualite superieure (French) = wines of superior quality from approved vineyards |
| VDSL | Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line |
| VDT | Video (or visual) display terminal |
| VDU | Video (or visual) display unit (see VDT = Video display unit) |
| VE / VE Day | Victory in Europe (the victory of the Allied forces over Germany in the Second World War) (8 May 1945) |
| VED | Vehicle excise duty |
| VF | Video frequency / Voice frequency / Ventricular fibrillation (Medicine) |
| VFA | Victorian Football Association (Australia) |
| VFL | Victorian Football League (Australia) |
| VFM | Value for money |
| VFR | Visual flight rules (Aviation) |
| VFT | Very fast train |
| VFW | Veterans of Foreign Wars |
| VG | Vicar-General / Very good |
| vg | Very good |
| VGA | Video graphics array (screen display system) |
| vgc | Very good condition |
| VHF | Very high frequency |
| VHS | Video home system (video cassette system for domestic video recorders) |
| VHS-C | VHS compact |
| VI | Virgin Islands / Vehicle Inspectorate / Vancouver Island |
| vi | Verb intransitive |
| via | by way of |
| Vic. | Vicar / Vicarage / Victoria (Australian state) |
| vid. | Vide / Video |
| vig | Vigorish |
| VIN | Vehicle identification number |
| VIP | Vasoactive intestinal (poly)peptide (Biochemistry) / Very important person |
| Vis. / Visc. | Viscount |
| viz. | videlicet (namely) |
| VJ | Video jockey / Victory over Japan (in Second World War, 1945) |
| VJ day | Victory over Japan day (15 August 1945) |
| vl | Varia lectio (Latin) = variant reading (vvll – plural) |
| VLA | Very large array (Astronomy) (US) = A system of radio telescopes in the US) |
| VLBI | Very long baseline interferometry (Astronomy) (radio signals measuring method) |
| VLCC | Very large crude carrier |
| VLCD | Very low calorie diet |
| VLDB | Very large database (Computing) |
| VLDL | Very low-density lipoprotein |
| VLE | Virtual learning environment |
| VLF | Very low frequency (frequency between 10 and 30 kHz) |
| vlog | Video log (weblog with mostly of moving images) (Similarly – vlogger and vlogging) |
| VLSI | Very large scale integration (or integrated) (Electronics) (a process of integrating 100000 or more circuits onto a single silicon chip) |
| V-mail | Victory mail (used in Second World War) / Video mail / Voice mail (US) |
| VMD | Veterinariae Medicinae Doctor (Latin) = Doctor of Veterinary Medicine |
| VMH | Victoria Medal of Honour |
| VMI | Vertical Motion Index (Computing) |
| VN | Vietnam (IVR = International Vehicle Registration) |
| VO | Royal Victorian Order / Verso / Voice Over (also V.O.) |
| vo. / voc. | Voce (voice) (Music) |
| VOA | Voice of America (a radio station) |
| Vo-Ag | Vocational Agriculture |
| VOC | Volatile organic compound |
| VOD | Video-on-demand |
| VOIP/VoIP | (abbreviation & acronym) Voice Over Internet Protocol |
| vol. | Volume / Voluntary / Volunteer |
| Vor/VOR | VHF Omnirange = An American Aid to aircraft navigation |
| VP | Vice-President / Verb phrase |
| VPL | Visible panty line (informal) = tight trousers or skirts, etc. |
| VPN | Virtual private network (secured computer network) (Computing) |
| VPP | Value Payable Post |
| VR | Victoria Regina (Latin) = Queen Victoria / Variant reading / Virtual reality |
| VRAM | Video RAM = Video Random Access Memory (Computing) (used in computer display cards) |
| V. Rev. | Very Reverend |
| VRE | Vancomycin resistant enterococcus (Medicine) |
| VRI | Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (Latin) = Victoria, Queen and Empress |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modelling Language = Mark-up Language (Computing) |
| vs. | Versus (also v) (against) |
| VS | Veterinary Surgeon |
| VSE | Vancouver Stock Exchange |
| V-six | Vehicle with a six cylinder V-engine |
| VSO | Voluntary Service Overseas (British charitable organization) |
| VSOP | Very special old pale (a grade/kind of brandy) |
| V/STOL | (acronym) Vertical and short take-off and landing |
| VT | Vatu (currency of Vanuatu (also V) / Vermont (US state) (also Vt.) |
| vt | Verb transitive |
| VTEC | Verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (Medicine) |
| VTO | Vertical take-off |
| VTOL | (acronym) Vertical take-off and landing |
| VTR | Videotape recorder |
| VU | Volume unit (VU meter – an indicator with the VU scale) |
| vul. / vulg. | Vulgate |
