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FMV

FMV is the initialism of full motion video.

FMV is the initialism of fair market value.

Meaning of full motion video

Noun

full motion video (countable and uncountable, plural full motion videos)

  1. (dated) Video marketed as being of sufficient quality to make motion appear continuous to humans, considered to require at least 16 frames per second.
    • When most companies become involved in teleconferencing, usually their first interest is in full-motion video conferencing.1985, Steven Golen, C Glenn Pearce, Ross Figgins, Report writing for business and industry
    Synonyms:
    FMV
  2. In-game footage that is pre-rendered, often using real-world scenes, as opposed to being rendered in-engine or in real time.
    • Stored full-motion video is useful for messages and information dissemination, whereas live video can be used for direct interaction, medical applications, manufacturing applications, and a variety of other process control processes.1996, Prabhat K. Andleigh, Kiran Thakrar, Multimedia Systems Design, page 18

Meaning of fair market value

Noun

fair market value (countable and uncountable, plural fair market values)

  1. The price at which the buyer and seller are willing to do business.

Forms of FMV

pluralFMVs

Questions about FMV

What is FMV the initialism of?
FMV is the initialism of full motion video.

Words near FMV in the dictionary

  1. FMS
  2. fmt
  3. FMTV
  4. fmu
  5. FMUs
  6. FMV
  7. FMVs
  8. FMVSS
  9. FMX
  10. fmz
  11. fn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FMV (page history and authors); full motion video (page history and authors); fair market 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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