ATV

See also: atv

English

Proper noun

ATV

1. (broadcasting, television) Initialism of Associated Television.
2. (broadcasting, television) Initialism of Asia Television Limited.
3. (broadcasting, television) Initialism of ATV (Austria).

Noun

ATV (countable and uncountable, plural ATVs)

2. (transport) Initialism of all-terrain vehicle (an astride-seated quad or tri-wheeled off-road recreational vehicle).

   Hypernym: vehicle

   Hyponyms: quad bike, four-wheeler, three-wheeler

   Coordinate terms: UTV, SxS

   • 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), pages 245-246:

     South of the beach access road, people rode ATVs over the dunes, and the ATV engines sounded like bugs from a distance, a high buzzing whine. Ambulances drove down the beach to collect ATV drivers three or four times a day.

3. (transport, space science) Initialism of Automated Transfer Vehicle.
4. (broadcasting, television) Initialism of amateur television.
5. Initialism of airport transit visa.
6. (pharmacology) Abbreviation of atazanavir.

Translations

all-terrain vehicle

• Dutch: quad (nl) m
• Finnish: mönkijä (fi)
• French: tout-terrain (fr)
• German: Quad (de) n, ATV (de) n
• Greek: όχημα παντός εδάφους n (óchima pantós edáfous)
• Latvian: kvadracikls (lv) m
• Polish: ATV (pl) n
• Spanish: cuatrimoto (es) m, cuadriciclo (es) m, cuatriciclo (es) m, quad m
• Swedish: fyrhjuling (sv) c

Automated Transfer Vehicle

• Finnish: ATV-moduuli, ATV (fi)
• German: ATV (de) n
• Norwegian: ATV
• Polish: ATV (pl) n
• Swedish: ATV

Anagrams

• TVA, VAT, VTA, tav, vat, vta