ERV

Initialism.

ERV

1. (biblical) Initialism of English Revised Version.

ERV (countable and uncountable, plural ERVs)

1. (countable, virology, biology, genetics) Initialism of endogenous retrovirus.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 147:

     Sequences derived from ERVs [...] appear to be heavily involved in gene regulatory networks.

2. (countable, astronautics, space flight) Initialism of Earth return vehicle.

   Hypernym: RV

3. (countable, HVAC) Initialism of energy recovery ventilator.
4. (uncountable, HVAC) Initialism of energy recovery ventilation.

(endogenous retrovirus):

• RV (“retrovirus”)

(endogenous retrovirus):

• HERV (“human endogenous retrovirus”)
• PERV (“porcine endogenous retrovirus”)

(spaceflight):

(ventilation/ventilator):

(endogenous retrovirus):

• HERV (“human endogenous retrovirus”)
• PERV (“porcine endogenous retrovirus”)

• Rev, Rev., VRE, ev'r, rev, rev., ver, ver.