• Computer-controlled Vehicle System
  Computer-controlled Vehicle System
  The Computer-controlled Vehicle System, almost universally referred to as CVS, was a personal rapid transit system developed by a Japanese industrial consortium during the 1970s...
  
  , a personal rapid transit
  Personal rapid transit
  Personal rapid transit , also called podcar, is a public transportation mode featuring small automated vehicles operating on a network of specially built guide ways...
  
   system developed in Japan
• Convenience store
  Convenience store
  A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and...
  
   (via an abbreviation commonly used in Japan and China)

Computing

• Concurrent Versions System
  Concurrent Versions System
  The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
  
  , a revision control system, popular for open source and commercial software development
• CVSNT
  CVSNT
  The CVSNT Versioning System implements a version control system: it keeps track of all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several developers to collaborate...
  
  , a versioning system for source code & documents with failsafe audit, change sets, merge tracking etc. forked from GNU CVS
  Concurrent Versions System
  The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
  
  
• OpenCVS
  OpenCVS
  OpenCVS is a BSD-licensed implementation of the popular Unix version control software called Concurrent Versions System. OpenCVS is developed as a part of the OpenBSD project by Jean-Francois Brousseau, Xavier Santolaria, Niall O'Higgins and others....
  
   is a new implementation of the Concurrent Versions System
• TortoiseCVS
  TortoiseCVS
  TortoiseCVS is a CVS client for Microsoft Windows released under the GNU General Public License. Unlike most CVS tools, it includes itself in Windows' shell by adding entries in the contextual menu of the file explorer, therefore it does not run in its own window...
  
   is a CVS graphical front end for Microsoft Windows embedded in Explorer which includes CVSNT
  CVSNT
  The CVSNT Versioning System implements a version control system: it keeps track of all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several developers to collaborate...
  
   client
• WinCVS is a CVS graphical front end for Microsoft Windows which includes CVSNT
  CVSNT
  The CVSNT Versioning System implements a version control system: it keeps track of all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several developers to collaborate...
  
   client

Entertainment

• Cable Video Store
  Cable Video Store
  Cable Video Store , is a defunct pay-per-view service that was launched in 1985 by General Instruments. It was later owned by Graff Pay-Per-View. Cable Video Store consisted of one channel which carried first run movies and specials on a PPV basis...
  
   (CVS), a defunct United States pay-per-view provider.
• SNK vs. Capcom, video games featuring characters created by either company
• Computer vision systems

Military

• CVS, the US Navy hull classification symbol
  Hull classification symbol
  The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...
  
   for ASW Support Aircraft Carrier
  Anti-submarine warfare carrier
  An ASW carrier is a type of small aircraft carrier whose primary role is to hunt and destroy submarines...
  
  
• FAA and IATA airport code for United States Air Force base Cannon Air Force Base
  Cannon Air Force Base
  Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. It is under the jurisdiction of Air Force Special Operations Command ....
  
  

Organizations and companies

• CVS Caremark
  CVS Caremark
  CVS Caremark Corporation is an integrated pharmacy services provider, combining a United States pharmaceutical services company with a U.S. pharmacy chain...
  
  , a major pharmacy chain & pharmaceutical services company in the United States
  • CVS Pharmacy, a subsidiary of the CVS Caremark Corporation which runs the pharmacies and stores
  • MinuteClinic
    MinuteClinic
    MinuteClinic, a subsidiary of CVS Caremark Corporation, is the largest provider of retail health clinics in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 569 clinics in 25 states...
    
    , a subsidiary of the CVS Caremark which operates a Medical Clinic in some CVS/Pharmacy stores
• Council for Voluntary Service
  Council for Voluntary Service
  A Council for Voluntary Service is a type of charity in England. CVSs are "the place at which local voluntary and community organisations speak to each other"...
  
  , a type of umbrella body for local voluntary and community organisations in England
• CVS UK Ltd, a veterinary corporate group in the United Kingdom

Science

• Cardiovascular system, the organs that circulate substances between cells
• Cyclic vomiting syndrome
  Cyclic vomiting syndrome
  Cyclic vomiting syndrome or cyclical vomiting syndrome is a condition whose symptoms are recurring attacks of intense nausea, vomiting and sometimes abdominal pain and/or headaches or migraines...
  
  , an illness characterized by recurring attacks of nausea and vomiting
• Chorionic villus sampling
  Chorionic villus sampling
  Chorionic villus sampling , sometimes misspelled "chorionic villous sampling", is a form of prenatal diagnosis to determine chromosomal or genetic disorders in the fetus. It entails sampling of the chorionic villus and testing it...
  
  , a form of prenatal testing
• Computer vision syndrome
  Computer vision syndrome
  Computer vision syndrome is a temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time. Some symptoms of CVS include headaches, blurred vision, neck pain, redness in the eyes, fatigue, eye strain, dry, irritated eyes, double vision,...
  
  , a condition resulting from excessive computer display use
• CVS (enzyme)
  CVS (enzyme)
  CVS is a terpene cyclase enzyme responsible for the biosynthesis of valencene, a sesquiterpene, using farnesyl pyrophosphate as its substrate. The first CVS enzyme was isolated using orange cDNA....
  
  , the enzyme responsible for the biosynthesis of valencene
• Center for Visual Sciences
  Center for Visual Sciences
  The Center for Visual Sciences is a virtual central resource at the University of California at Davis, United States, focused on boosting collaboration in and funding of research in the visual sciences. The center serves in part as a bridge between vision researchers at the Center for Neuroscience...
  
  , a virtual center for research collaboration at UC Davis
• Chromous-Volatile Sulfide
  Sulfide
  A sulfide is an anion of sulfur in its lowest oxidation state of 2-. Sulfide is also a slightly archaic term for thioethers, a common type of organosulfur compound that are well known for their bad odors.- Properties :...
  
  , used in environmental chemistry as the volatile part of natural sulfide after their oxidation by Cr²⁺