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HIV

Noun CEFR C2
ˌeɪtʃˌaɪˈviː

Definitions

  1. Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
  2. Initialism of header isolation valve.
  3. Initialism of helium isolation valve.
  4. Initialism of hydraulic isolation valve.

Equivalents

Españolvih
FrançaisVIH
21 more languages
Bosanskikasa
فارسیاچآیوی
Hrvatskikasa
ՀայերենՄԻԱՎ
ItalianoHIVVIU
ភាសាខ្មែរមេរោគអេដស៍
Kurdîhîv
МонголХДХВ
Nederlandshiv
PolskiHIV
PortuguêsHIVVIH
РусскийВИЧ
Српскиkasa
Svenskahiv
KiswahiliVVU
Українськавіл
Tiếng Việtchôm chôm

Examples

There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.”
Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in the power-law function of the distribution of sexual-risk behavior.”
“A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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