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HSV

HSV is the initialism of herpes simplex virus.

HSV is the initialism of hue.

HSV is the initialism of high speed vessel.

HSV is the initialism of Hamburger SV.

Meaning of herpes simplex virus

Noun

herpes simplex virus (countable and uncountable, plural herpes simplex viruses)

  1. One of two members of the human Herpesviridae family, a set of viruses that produces viral infections in the majority of humans.
    Synonyms:
    HSV

Meaning of hue

Noun (1)

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

  1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
    • A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 39–40
  2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
    • In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
  3. (figuratively) Character; aspect.
    • This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
  4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Noun (2)

hue (plural hues)

  1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

See all 7 meanings of hue

Synonyms of HSV

Forms of HSV

pluralHSVs

Words formed from HSV

Questions about HSV

What is HSV the initialism of?
HSV is the initialism of herpes simplex virus.

Words near HSV in the dictionary

  1. Hsuehchia
  2. Hsuehs
  3. Hsuehshan
  4. HSUPA
  5. Hsus
  6. HSV
  7. HSV-1
  8. HSV-1s
  9. HSVs
  10. HSW
  11. HSwMS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HSV (page history and authors); herpes simplex virus (page history and authors); hue (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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