V
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V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet.
Like F and the Greek letter Upsilon (also spelled Ypsilon), V evolved from the Phoenician letter Waw. In Etruscan it was simplified to V and had the sound value /u/, but since F came to represent /f/ in Latin rather than /w/, the Romans used V for both /w/ and /u/, as in EQVVS. In some Roman handwriting styles, it was written as a modern uppercase V, while in others like uncial it resembled modern lowercase u. With the Mediaeval introduction of the distinction between both cases, the pair was written as V/u, as in Vniuersitas. In Romance languages, V came to represent /v/ which developed from /w/; Around the Renaissance, U and V were felt as sounds different enough to warrant their own letters, and a lowercase v and an uppercase U were developed. A similar evolution happened with I/J.
German W (or double u, from VV) originally was pronounced as the English letter – but has been pronounced /v/ since Middle High German times. At the same time, V was pronounced in German as in English, but the German 'Vau' soon stood for /f/ again in all positions except between vowels. (The same is probably now happening in some dialects of Dutch.) However, it is still pronounced as /v/ in German words of foreign origin.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, 'v' represents the voiced labiodental fricative. See IPA chart for English for pronunciation key.
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Alternative representations
Victor represents the letter V in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
In international Morse code the letter V is DitDitDitDah: · · · -
In Braille the letter V is represented as ⠧ (in Unicode), the dot pattern:
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Computing
Image:Keyboard V.jpg In Unicode the capital V is codepoint U+0056 and the lowercase v is U+0076.
The ASCII code for capital V is 86 and for lowercase v is 118; or in binary 01010110 and 01110110, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital V is 229 and for lowercase v is 165.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "V" and "v" for upper and lower case respectively.
Meanings for V
- "V is for Victory"
- In biochemistry, V is the symbol for valine.
- In chemistry, V is the symbol for vanadium.
- In communication, V is the name of a hand gesture; see V sign
- In computing,
- V is an operation on a semaphore, used for process synchronisation.
- V is the name of an operating system developed at Stanford University.
- V is an ITU-T series of recommendations on Data communication over the telephone network and used in their names such as V.92. See ITU-T recommendations.
- In electrical engineering, V is the symbol for voltage (also known as electric potential, see below).
- In finance, V is the U.S. ticker symbol for Vivendi Universal.
- In grammar, v is an abbreviation for verb.
- In international licence plate codes, V stands for Vatican City.
- In the SI system,
- V is the symbol for volt, the SI derived unit for electric potential.
- In physics, v is often a variable for speed or velocity.
- As the first letter of a postal code,
- In Canada, V stands for British Columbia.
- In Roman numerals, V denotes the number five (there are also separate Unicode characters for this number, 0x2164 "Ⅴ" and 0x2174 "ⅴ").
- In literature, Thomas Pynchon's first novel is called V. (including the period).
- In television, V (1983) is the name of a science fiction miniseries / TV series
- In music,
- the roman numeral V is the dominant scale degree, chord, or diatonic function, when distinguished V = major and v = minor.
- V is the name of a band from the United Kingdom; see V (band).
- V is the name of an album released by the band Live in 2001.
- v is the name of an album released by the band 76 in 2003.
- V is the name of a drink produced by Frucor in New Zealand.
- A V engine is an internal combustion engine configuration.
- In Windows, Ctrl-V, and Mac OS, Command-V, pastes at the cursor the contents of the clipboard.
- In comics
- V is the name given by a mysterious anarchist who fights against a totalitarian government in V for Vendetta
See also
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