NV

Las Vegas's state

NV is the standard postal abbreviation for Nevada.

It appears on addresses and in shorthand references to the state: Las Vegas, NV.

In other contexts, NV can stand for night vision or non-volatile (as in NV memory, which retains data without power).

non-volatile

memory

Mind's retention capacity

  • storageSpace for keeping goods
  • flashBrief burst of light
  • SSDChip-based storage device

ROM · firmware · persistent · data retention · solid-state · NAND · hard drive · semiconductor · NVMe · endurance

Nevada

Las Vegas

Nevada's gambling capital

casino · gambling · desert · Hoover Dam · Area 51 · Great Basin · Sierra Nevada · Virginia City · Mojave · Henderson

abbreviation

initialism

Spelled-out letter shortening

shortening · symbol · truncation · clipping · condensation · brevity · conciseness · compression · simplification · notation

military-rank

noncommissioned

Lacking official officer appointment

seaman · yeoman · fleet · shipboard · advancement · insignia · chevron · naval

not-applicable

inapplicable

Not relevant to this

blank field · checkbox · survey response · spreadsheet · database · null · unrelated · skipped · omitted · placeholder

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full form versus abbreviation

NVNevada

Silver State out west

full name · spelled out · unabbreviated · expanded form

vintage designation

NVvintage

Quality from past eras

dated

visibility conditions

NVdaytime

Sunlit portion of day

DV · visible light

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