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PVT

PVT

8.1
Data showing how pressure, volume, and temperature of a fluid change together
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The engineer presented the PVT data to illustrate how temperature affects pressure and volume.

Examples

  • The set is called PVT. Tim Hall (see Figure 1).

    Academic text (2002)

  • The organizers of the PVT were aghast.

    Academic text (2008)

  • "I still need your signature to activate the medical interrogation team for the PVT test." He explained Section IX of the Atomic Weapons Control Act.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Singh RS (2008) Encyclopaedia of Library Science Today (1st ed.). Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT Ltd.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Not long before, in Bulgaria, democratic activists had cooperated in organizing a PVT, a monitoring effort separate from the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

    Academic text (2008)

  • In thermodynamics, understanding the PVT relationship is crucial for predicting how gases behave.

  • The PVT chart displayed the properties of the substance at various temperatures and pressures.

Surface Forms

PVT singular

Etymology

PVT comes from the three words pressure, volume, and temperature, and PVT data shows how those properties change together, so engineers use it to predict how a gas or liquid will behave.