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EV

EV is the abbreviation of English Version.

EV is the abbreviation of Early Version.

EV is the initialism of electric vehicle.

EV is the initialism of extracellular vesicle.

EV is the initialism of expected value.

EV is the initialism of estradiol valerate.

Meaning of electric vehicle

Noun

electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles)

  1. A vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an electric car or truck.
    • By the middle of the decade, he [Clive Sinclair] had sold his computer businesses and moved on to transportation with the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, which was designed with a single seat but, bafflingly for as wet and chilly a country as Britain, without a roof.2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    EV

Meaning of expected value

Noun

expected value (countable and uncountable, plural expected values)

  1. The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.
    Synonyms:
    expectation, expectancy, expectation operator, mathematical expectation, mean, expectation value, first moment

Proper noun capitalized: Ev

Ev

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Evelyn.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Evelyn.
  3. A unisex given name, variant of Evelyn.
  4. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Land of Ev, a fictional country created by L. Frank Baum in the world of Oz and setting for Ozma of Oz, and other works.

Noun capitalized: eV

eV (plural eV)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of electron volt.

Forms of EV

Proper noun
alternative formE.V.
Noun
pluralEVs
pluraleV

Words formed from EV

Questions about EV

What does EV mean?
EV means a diminutive of the female given name Evelyn.
What is EV the abbreviation of?
EV is the abbreviation of English Version.
What part of speech is EV?
EV can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near EV in the dictionary

  1. Euxine Sea
  2. euxinia
  3. Euxinian
  4. euxinic
  5. Euxton
  6. EV
  7. ev'ning
  8. ev'nings
  9. ev'r
  10. ev'ry
  11. ev'rythang

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: EV (page history and authors); Ev (page history and authors); eV (page history and authors); electric vehicle (page history and authors); expected value (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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