Vertebral column In human anatomy, the vertebral column is a column of vertebrae situated in the dorsum aspect of the torso. It houses the spinal cord in its spinal canal.
	Vertebrate Vertebrata is a subphylum of chordates, specifically, those with Spine s or spinal columns. About 57,739 species of vertebrates have been described. Vertebrates started to evolve about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion, which is part of the Cambrian period .
	Very low frequency Very low frequency or VLF refers to radio frequencies in the range of 3 to 30 kHz. Since there is not much bandwidth in this band of the radio spectrum, only the very simplest signals are used, such as for radionavigation.
	Vesalius Andreas Vesalius was an Anatomy, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica . Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.
	Vespa The Vespa is a line of scooters that was first manufactured in Pontedera, Italy in 1946 by Piaggio Piaggio continues to manufacture the Vespa today, although the Vespa was much more widely used in the 1950s and 1960s, when it also became the adopted vehicle of choice for the United Kingdom youth-culture known as Mod.
	Vespasian Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus , known originally as Titus Flavius Vespasianus and usually referred to in English language as Vespasian, was Roman Emperors of Roman Empire from 69 to 79. Vespasian was the founder of the short-lived though influential Flavian dynasty, being succeeded as emperor by his sons Titus and Domitian.
	Vesper Sparrow The Vesper Sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus, is a medium-sized American sparrow. It is the only member of the genus Pooecetes. Adults have light brown upperparts and light underparts, both with darker streaking. They have a white eye ring and a long dark brown tail which shows white outer feathers in flight.
	Vespers Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Liturgy of the canonical hours. The word comes from Latin vesper, meaning "evening." The term is also used in some Protestant denominations to describe evening services, and in some Anglican circles is used unofficially to refer to Evening Prayer.
	Vespid The Vespidae are a large, diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a Queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen.
	Vest A vest is a type of garment. The term has different meanings in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, a vest is an undergarment typically taking the form of a white sleeveless T-shirt. A common sleeveless undershirt is the A-shirt. When worn without anything on top, it may be insultingly referred to as a "Wife beater", due to a stereotype of violent men as people who sit around in their underwear drinking beer.
	VEST VEST is a hardware-dedicated stream cipher. VEST ciphers also support single pass authenticated encryption and can also be used as cryptographic hash functions. VEST is based on bijective parallel NLFSR assisted by non-linear Residue Number System based counters.
	Vestal Virgin In Ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins, were the virgin holy priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary task was to maintain the sacred fire of Vesta. The Vestal duty brought great honor and afforded greater privileges to women who served in that role.
	Vestas Vestas is a Denmark company that designs, manufactures, and sells wind turbines. Founded in 1945 by Peder Hansen from the small town of Lem with the name Vestjysk STålteknik A/S, as a manufacturer of household appliances, the company progressed to the manufacture of agricultural equipment in 1950, intercoolers in 1956, hydraulic cranes in 1968, and began the manufacture of wind turbines in 1979.
	Vestibular system The vestibular system, or balance system, is the sensory system that provides the dominant input about our movement and orientation in space. Together with the cochlea, the auditory organ, it is situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear. As our movements consist of rotations and translations, the vestibular system comprises two components:
	Vesuvianite Vesuvianite is a green, brown, yellow, or blue Silicate minerals mineral, Ca10Mg2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH)4. Vesuvianite occurs as tetragonal crystals in limestones that have been subjected to contact metamorphism.
	Veteran A veteran is a person who is experienced in a particular area, and is particularly used to refer to people in the armed forces. It often refers to retired service personnel. A veteran is one who has served in the armed forces and has an honorable discharge; a common misconception is that one has either been in combat and/or is retired from active duty to be called a veteran.
	Veterans Day Veterans' Day is the United States name for the international day of remembrance formerly called Armistice Day. It falls on 11 November, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War. It is a federal holiday and a state holiday in all 50 states.
	Veterans of Foreign Wars The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, or simply VFW, is an United States organization whose members are current or former members of the U.S. armed forces. To be eligible for membership, an individual must have earned a United States Government issued overseas expeditionary or campaign medal, or have one of the following:
	Veterinarian A veterinarian or a veterinary surgeon, often shortened to vet, is an animal physician and a practitioner of veterinary medicine. The word comes from the Latin language veterinae, "draught animals." The word "veterinarian" was first used in English language by the Thomas Browne.
	Veterinary medicine Veterinary medicine is the application of medicine, diagnosis, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. Veterinary Science is vital to the study and protection of animal production practices, herd health and monitoring spread of widespread disease.
	Vex Vex is a robotic system intended for newcomers to robotics as well as high school students. The main kit comes with a microcontroller, a remote control, various sensors, various electric motors and a Servomechanism, and structural parts. Additional sensors, wheels, tank treads, and other add-ons can be purchased separately.
	Vexations Vexations is a noted musical work by Erik Satie. It consists of a short chord progression, and is intended to be repeated 840 times. On the score, it is written that "Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se prparer au pralable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilits srieuses": "In order to play this motif 840 times consecutively to oneself, it will be useful to prepare oneself beforehand, and in utter silence, by grave immobilities."
	Vi vi is a screen-oriented text editor computer program written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early Berkeley Software Distribution release.
	Viaduct A viaduct is bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the latin via for road and ductus to conduct something. However the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se, it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early viaducts comprised a series of arches of roughly equal length.
	Vial A vial or phial is a glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle used to store medicines.
	VIBE VIBE is a popular magazine owned by Quincy Jones. The publication contains articles on R&B and hip-hop music music artists, actors and other entertainers. The magazine is also considered to be a trendsetter in fashion and style for its predominantly young, urban audience.
	Vibes Vibes is a comedy film released in 1988 starring pop icon and singer Cyndi Lauper, actor Jeff Goldblum, actor Julian Sands and legendary actor Peter Falk. It was directed by Ken Kwapis. The film, about Sylvia, a loopy, ditzy parapsychology woman, and Nick, her equally dim male psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuador Andes to find the "source of psychic energy" was a huge critical and commercial failure.
	Vibraphone Insert non-formatted text hereThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the percussion instrument family. It is similar in appearance to the xylophone, although the vibraphone uses metal bars instead of the wooden bars on the xylophone.
	Vibrator A vibrator is a mechanical device that is designed to generate oscillations. The vibration is often generated by an electric motor with an mechanical equilibrium weight on its driveshaft. If the motor is switched on, the rotation weight will resonance.
	Vibrio Bacteria of the genus Vibrio are Gram-negative bacillus, with comma-shaped cells. Typically found in saltwater, Vibrio are oxidase positive, Facultative anaerobic organism, and do not form spores. All members of the genus are motile, typically with a single, polar flagellum.
	Viburnum Viburnum is a genus of about 150-175 species of shrubs or small trees that were previously included in the family Caprifoliaceae. Genetics tests by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group showed however that they are correctly classified in the family Adoxaceae. They are native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with a few species extending into tropical montane regions in South America and southeast Asia.
	Viburnum lantana Viburnum lantana is a species of Viburnum, native to central, southern and western Europe, northwest Africa, and southwestern Asia. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 4-5 m tall. The leaf are opposite, simple oval to lanceolate, 6-13 cm long and 4-9 cm broad, with a finely serrated margin; they are densely downy on the underside, less so on the upper surface.
	Viburnum opulus Viburnum opulus is a species of Viburnum, native to Europe and Asia. Some botanists also treat the closely related North American species Viburnum trilobum as a variety of it, or a subspecies, Viburnum opulus subsp. trilobum Clausen.
	Viburnum trilobum Viburnum trilobum is a species of Viburnum native to northern North America, from British Columbia east to Newfoundland, south to Washington east to northern Virginia, with an isolated population in New Mexico. It is very closely related to the European and Asian Viburnum opulus, and is often treated as a variety of it, as Viburnum opulus L. var.
	VICE The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is an emulator for Commodore International's 8-bit computers, running on Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.
	Vice Admiral Vice Admiral is a naval rank of three star level, equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority. A Vice Admiral is typically senior to a Rear Admiral and junior to an Admiral.
	Vice President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the Federal Government of the United States. As first in the United States presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the President.
	Viceroy A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and French roi, meaning king. His province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty.
	Vichy Vichy is a French Commune in France, situated in the Dpartment in France of Allier and the Rgion in France of Auvergne . It is known as a Spa town and resort town. The inhabitants are known as Vichyssois. It was the capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.
	Vicia Vicia is a large genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa. One species, Vicia faba, commonly known as Vicia faba or fava bean is cultivated for human consumption, while a number of other species Vicia sativa, Bitter vetch, Vicia articulata Hornem. and Vicia narbonensis are cultivated as forage and grain legume for livestock or green manure.
	Vicia faba Vicia faba, the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, horse bean, field bean or tic bean is a species of legume native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. Although usually classified in the same genus Vicia as the Vicia, some botanists treat it in a separate monotypic genus as Faba sativa Moench.
	Vicious Circle Vicious Circle is an album released in 1995 by L.A. Guns. The track "Nothing Better To Do" features Kelly Nickels on lead vocals. The album features drummer MC Bones on several songs. MC Bones also played with singer Phil Lewis in the band Filthy Lucre.
	Victor Herbert Victor August Herbert was a popular composer of light opera, and an accomplished cellist and conductor. He was a founder of American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
	Victor Horta Victor Horta was a Belgium architect. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Htel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-1893 means that he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture from the decorative arts.
	Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo was a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman and human rights campaigner, recognized as the most influential Romanticism writer of the 19th century. His best-known works are the novels Les Misrables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame .
	Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross is the highest recognition for valour "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations armed forces of any rank in any service, and civilians under military command. It is also the highest award in the British Honours system.
	Victoria Day Victoria Day is a Canadian Statutory Holiday celebrated on the Monday on or before May 24 in honour of both Victoria of the United Kingdom's birthday and the current reigning Monarchy in Canada's birthday. While Victoria Day is often thought of as a purely Canadian event, it is also celebrated in some parts of Scotland, particularly in Edinburgh and Dundee, where it is also a public holiday.
	Victoria Falls The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya are one of the world's most spectacular waterfalls. The falls are situated on the Zambezi River, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and are roughly 1.7 km wide and 128 m high. They are considered a remarkable spectacle because of the peculiar narrow slot-like chasm into which the water falls, so one can view the falls face-on.
	Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica lying south of New Zealand, named after the Victoria of the United Kingdom. It is bounded on the east by the Ross Sea and on the west by Wilkes Land. It includes ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains and the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
	Victorian architecture The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named.
	Victory garden Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort.
	Vicuña The vicua is one of two wild South American camelids, along with the Guanaco, which lives in the high Andes. It is a relative of the llama and the alpaca. Vicuas produce small amounts of extremely fine wool. It is understood that the Incas raised Vicuas for their wool, and that it was against the law for any but royalty to wear vicua garments.
	Video Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing film, typically using magnetic tape, electronic signals, or digital media, primarily for viewing on television or as video clips on computer Computer displays.
	Videocassette recorder The videocassette recorder, is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record Sound recording and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. Many VCRs have their own tuner and a programmable timer.
	Videotape Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to film film. In virtually all cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds.
	Vienna Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primate city; with a population of about 1.6 million , Vienna is by far the largest city in Austria as well as its culture of Austria, economic and Politics of Austria centre.
	Vienna sausage Vienna sausage is a variety of canned food sausage. The term means essentially the same thing as Hot dog, as the latter means Viennese, and is short for Viennese sausage. Canned Vienna sausages are generally made using a simplified adaptation of the process used to mass-produce other sausages.
	Vientiane Vientiane is the capital city of Laos, situated in the Mekong Valley. The estimated population of the city is 200,000 while the number of people living in the Vientiane metropolitan area is believed to be over 730,000. Vientiane is located at 1758' North, 10236' East .
	Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a country in Southeast Asia. Situated in eastern Indochinabordering China, Laos, Cambodia, as well as the South China Seait is the most populous country among the mainland Southeast Asian countries.
	Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a conflict in which the North Vietnam and its allies fought against the South Vietnam and its allies . It was a continuation of the First Indochina War, in which the Vietnamese tried to gain independence from France after World War II.
	View A view is what can be seen in a range of vision. View may also be used as a synonym of perspective in the first sense. View may also be used figuratively or with special significance—for example, to imply a scenic outlook or special vantage point: *Sense#List of senses
	Viewing In funeral services, a viewing is the time that the family and friends come to see the deceased after they have been prepared by a funeral home. Most bodies that are viewed in the Western world are Embalming. A viewing may take place at the funeral parlour, in a family home or at a church or chapel prior to the actual funeral service.
	Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Vigds Finnbogadttir was the 4th president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996. She was the world's first elected List of Female Presidents. She studied literature and drama at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Iceland.
	Vigna The genus Vigna is in the plant family Fabaceae. The genus is named after Dominico Vigna an Italian people botanist of the 17th century. Many Vigna species are cultivated for food. They include some well-known and not so well known bean species formerly included in the genus Phaseolus.
	Vigna caracalla Vigna caracalla is legume vine from the family Fabaceae, originating in tropics South America and Central America. The species is named caracalla, meaning that it comes from Caracas in Venezuela. That this perennial vine has fragrant flowers is a common misconception- said to be reminisent of hyacinths - with a distinctive curled shape, giving rise to the common names snail vine, corkscrew vine, and snail bean.
	Vigor Vigor is a clone of vi for UNIX that adds, as a joke, a cruel parody of Clippy, the Microsoft Office assistant. The name is a portmanteau of vi and Igor, Dr. Frankenstein's assistant. Vigor was written by Joel Ray "Piquan" Holveck in Sunnyvale, California, and the logo for Vigor was created by Tom Mulder.
	Viking The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne explorers, traders, and warriors of the Norsemen who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles, France and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. This period of European history is often referred to as the Viking Age.
	Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, born March 23 1931 in Saint Petersburg, USSR, is currently the oldest active International Grandmaster on the world tournament circuit, world-renowned for his extraordinary longevity. Korchnoi lost three matches against Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship.
	Vilfredo Pareto Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher. He made several important contributions especially in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices. He introduced the concept of Pareto efficiency and helped develop the field of microeconomics.
	Village A village is a human residential town commonly found in rural areas. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. Villages have been the normal unit of community living in most areas of the world throughout its history, up until the Industrial revolution and the ongoing process of urbanization.