# List of acronyms: V

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter V.
For the purposes of this list:
* acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
* initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
* pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
    (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
    (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
    (p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
    (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz)
Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P.
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* V0–9 VA VB VC VD VE VF VG VH VI VJ VK VL VM VN VO VP VQ VR VS VT VU VV VW VX VY VZ
* 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) Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (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")