POV
See also: pov, PoV, pov', p.o.v., and P.O.V.
English
Noun
POV (plural POVs)
- Initialism of point of view.
- Alternative forms: P.O.V., PoV, p.o.v.
- 1988, Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 308:
- By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.
- 1993, Richard Price, 3 Screenplays, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 261:
- From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face.
- 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259:
- When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.
- 2015, Kate Elliott, The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, page 344:
- A female point-of-view (pov) character is not necessarily written from the perspective of a female gaze. […] A pov character is a character through whose eyes and perspective we follow the action of the story.
- 2022, Peter C. Pugsley; Ben McCann, The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
- The film takes us immediately to Oscar’s pov, complete with momentary ‘blackouts’ as he blinks. […] Soon, still from Oscar’s pov, he begins lighting up a form of hallucinatory drug, and after a seemingly interminable number of attempts, begins to achieve the high he was seeking.
- 2022, Nigel Hamilton, “The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography”, in Hans Renders and David Veltman, editors, Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography, Brill, →ISBN, part I (Reflections on Theory and Biography), page 39:
- Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov?
- Initialism of privately owned vehicle.
- (finance, computing) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.
Usage notes
- (point of view) The acronym POV is often used inaccurately on the social media app TikTok to refer to videos not filmed from any individual's actual point of view.[1]
References
- Emma Carey (2022-08-04), “What Does POV Mean On TikTok? The Popular Acronym, Explained”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 2022-11-01
Anagrams
- OPV, OVP, VOP