(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ V – (s) 5 (in Roman numerals) - Vanadium – Volt
VA VA – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) – (s) Virginia (postal symbol) – (i) Various Artists VACIS – (a) Vehicle And Container Inspection System VACIS – (a) Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System VACUUM - (a) Valid Accurate Consistent Uniform Unified Model VANOS – (p) Variable Nockenwelle System VAO – (i) Vienna Art Orchestra VASIS – (a) Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation) VAT – (i) Value-Added Tax – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)
VB VB – (i) Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic VBA – (i) Visual Basic for Applications
VC VC – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Victoria Cross VCDS – (i) (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff – (i) VAG-COM Diagnostic System vCJD – (i) Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease VCJCS – (i) Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff VCNO – (i) (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations VCR – (i) Video cassette recorder VCofS – (i) Vice Chief of Staff VCT – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)
VD VD – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977) – (i) Venereal Disease VDFS - (i) VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS) VDMOS – (i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss") VDOT – (i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot") VDR – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)
VE ve – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-1 code) VE – (s) Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) VEB – (s) Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code) VEEGA – (a) Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre ven – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-2 code) VEN – (s) Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram) VERDI – (i) Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy) VERITAS – (a) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
VF VF - (i) VinFast (Vietnamese automobile brand) VFA (i) Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league) (i) Volatile Fatty Acid (s) Fixed-wing Strike Fighter Squadron (U.S Naval Aviation squadron type) VfD – (i) Articles for deletion (used in Wikipedia) VFL – (i) Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues: The original VFL, formed when the original VFA split in 1896, evolved into today's Australian Football League. The modern VFL, which operates to this day as a semi-professional developmental league for the AFL, is the successor to the VFA. VFM – (i) Value For Money VFMO – (i) Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy) VFR – (i) Visual Flight Rules VFT – (i) Virtual Function Table VFW – (i) Veterans of Foreign Wars
VG VG – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram) VGB – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
VH VH1 – (a/i) Video Hits One VHF – (i) Very High Frequency
VI vi – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code) VI – (s) 6 (in Roman numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – United States Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) vide infra (Latin, "see below") – Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW) VIA – (a) Versatile Interface Adapter VIC – (s) Victoria, Australia (postal symbol) – (a) Video Interface Chip – Virginia Intermont College VIDS – (i) Visual Information Display System vie – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code) VII – (s) 7 (in Roman numerals) VIII – (s) 8 (in Roman numerals) VIN – (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779) VIP – (i) see entry VIR – (s) United States Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) – Virgin Atlantic (ICAO code) VIS – (i) Vavoua International School – Vienna Independent Shorts – Viewable Image Size – Visual Instruction Set VISCII – (p) VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange VIT – (i) Vellore Institute of Technology VIVO – (i) Video In Video Out
VJ VJ – (i) Video Jockey
VK VK – (s) Australia (ham radio code) – (i) Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper
VL VLA – (i) Very Large Array – (UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency VLAD – (a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR VLBA – (i) Very Long Baseline Array VLF – (i) Very Low Frequency VLIW – (i) Very Long Instruction Word VLPFC – (i) VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex VLPMC – (i) VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex VLSF – (i) Vieille langue des signes française, Old French Sign Language
VLSI – (i) Very-large-scale integration
VLVS – (i) Very Loud, Very Stinky
VM VM – (s) Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code) VMASC – (i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask") VMF – (i) Variable Message Format VMF – Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps VMN – (p) VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)
VN VN (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram) Vietnam Airlines (IATA code) Vietnam's aircraft registration prefix VND – (s) Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code) VNIR – (i) Visible and Near InfraRed VNM – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram) VNS – see entry
VO VOA – (i) Voice of America vo – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code) VOC – (i) (Dutch East India Company) – Volatile organic compounds VOIP – (a, i) Voice Over Internet Protocol vol – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code) VOLT – (a) Visual OpenType Layout Tool VON – (i) Victorian Order of Nurses VOR – (i) VHF Omnidirectional Ranging VOR – (a) Voice of Russia VOV - (i) Voice of Vietnam VOX – (p) Voice Operated eXchange (Voice-operated oscillator)
VP VP – (a/i) Vice-president ("veep") VPN – (i) Virtual private network
VQ VQ (i) Vector quantization (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) Aircraft registration prefix for Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Saint Helena and Turks and Caicos.
VR VR – (i) Virtual reality VROTS – (i) Victorian rare or threatened species VRSG – (i) Virtual reality scene generator V/R - (i) Very respectfully; standard military closure
VS VS – (i) Very special (brandy grade) – vide supra (Latin, "see above") VSAT – (a) Very small aperture terminal ("vee-satt") VSHORAD – (p) Very short range air defence VSO – (i) Voluntary Services Overseas VSOP – (i) Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French, "Planetary Orbit Secular Variations") – Very small outline package (integrated circuit) – Very superior old pale (brandy grade) – VLBI Space Observatory Programme VSR – (i) Very special relativity V/STOL – (p) Vertical/short take-off and landing ("vee-stoll")
VT VT (s) Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code) Vermont (postal symbol) (i) Video tape Virginia Tech VTC – (i) Video Tele-Conference VTEC – (i) Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control VTOL – (i) Vertical Take-Off & Landing
VU VU – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Vedanta University VUB – (i) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university) VUK – (a) Value Up Kit VUT – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram) VUV – (s) Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)
VV V&V – (i) Verification & Validation VV – (i) Via Voice – Village Voice VV&A – (i) Verification, Validation & Accreditation VVAF – (i) Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
VW VW – (i) Volkswagen
VZ VZ – (s) Verizon Communications (NYSE code) vzw – (i) vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (Dutch "non-profit organisation")