LAV

LAV or Lav may refer to:

Persons

• Lav, an alternative name for Lava (Ramayana), a son of the Hindu deity Rama and his wife Sita, whose story is told in the Ramayana
• Lav, translation in some Slavic languages of the name Lev
• Luis Antonio Valencia, Manchester United winger
• Lav (singer), the stage name of American singer-songwriter Kalea Little.

Science and technology

• Lavalier microphone, a small microphone with a clip for attaching to clothing
• software packages for encoding and decoding video and audio files:
  • LAV Filters, a set of open-source DirectShow filters based on FFmpeg
  • Libav, a free software project forked from FFmpeg
  • libavcodec, an audio/video codec library provided by FFmpeg and Libav
• Live Attenuated vaccine, a vaccine with weakened but still living pathogen
• Load average, the average of Load (computing)
• Local As View, a view-based query answering approach to data integration
• Lymphadenopathy-associated virus, a former name for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

Vehicles

• Leisure activity vehicle, a car classification
• Light Armored Vehicle, another term for armored car (military)
• LAV (armored vehicle), series of armored vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems, Canada
  • LAV I, or Armored Vehicle General Purpose 6x6
  • LAV II, 8x8 vehicle
    • LAV-25, used by the United States Marine Corps
  • LAV III, 8x8 vehicle
  • LAV 6, modernization of the LAV III
• Cadillac Cage light armored vehicles:
  • Commando V-150 sometimes referred to as the LAV-150
  • Commando V-200 sometimes referred to as the LAV-200
  • LAV-300
  • LAV-600
• Komatsu LAV, a Japanese armored car, unrelated to the Canadian LAV

Transportation lines

• Línea Aeropostal Venezolana, an airline of Venezuela
• Líneas de Alta Velocidad, Spanish high-speed railway lines
  • Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line
  • Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line
  • Madrid–León high-speed rail line
  • Madrid–Levante high-speed rail network
  • Córdoba–Málaga high-speed rail line
  • Antequera–Granada high-speed rail line

Other uses

• Latvian language (ISO 639-2 & 3 code LAV)
• Lav, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
• Lav pivo, a beer brand in Serbia
• The Last American Virgin, a 1982 film
• Let America Vote, a political action organization fighting voter suppression