Rev
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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.
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