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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ415967 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rev, REV or Rév may refer to:

Abbreviations

Rev.

Rev., an abbreviation for revolution, as in Revolutions per minute

Rev., an abbreviation for the religious style The Reverend

Rev., the abbreviation for Runtime Revolution, a development environment

Rev., an abbreviation for the Book of Revelation

Rev., an abbreviation for Reverse

Rev., an abbreviation for Revision

Rev., an abbreviation for Revolver

Rev., an abbreviation for Review, as in:

Chem. Rev. (Chemical Reviews), a peer-reviewed scientific journal

Phys. Rev. (Physical Review), an American scientific journal

Revs

Revs (video game), a 1984 Formula Three simulation computer game

Revs (graffiti artist), tag name of a graffiti artist in New York City

The Revs, an Irish rock band

Revs, the nickname for the New England Revolution soccer club in America

Acronyms

REV Bremerhaven, a professional hockey team in Germany's 2nd Bundesliga league

REV (Conference), the International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation

Iomega REV, a removable disk storage system

Range-extended vehicle

Redlands East Valley High School

Regulator of Virion, a protein of HIV

Representative elementary volume

Revised English Version, an Internet Bible version by Spirit & Truth Fellowship International 2012

Réseau Express Vélo, a network of bicycle lanes in Montreal

Robotic Enhanced Vehicles (R.E.V.), a toy sold by WowWee

Companies

Rev (company), a speech-to-text and captioning company

Revlon, an American multinational cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company

REV Group, an American manufacturer of specialty vehicles

Equalize Health, formerly D-Rev, a non-profit product development company

Music

Rev-Ola Records, a UK record label formed in 1988

Rev (Perry Farrell album), 1999

Rev (Ten Foot Pole album), 1994

Rev (Ultra Vivid Scene album), 1992

Rev (The Reverend Horton Heat album), 2014

People

Rev I of Iberia (died 216), king of (Caucasian) Iberia (i.e., eastern Georgia)

Rev II of Iberia (4th century), a prince who functioned as a co-king to his father Mirian III, the first Christian Georgian ruler

Rev Cannady (1904–1981), baseball player in the Negro leagues

Lívia Rév (1916–2018), classical concert pianist

Martin Rev (born 1947), instrumentalist from New York punk-era electronic band Suicide

The Rev (James Owen Sullivan, 1981–2009), drummer for the band Avenged Sevenfold

Joseph Simmons, better known as Rev Run, of Run-DMC

Other uses

Rev (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain

Rev (drink), an alcopop

Rev (HIV), an HIV gene

Rev.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rev” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2012, 1988, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Rev”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q415967. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2012, 1988 and 1999.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Rev primary sources, Rev archive and Wikimedia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rev” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.