V2

1. uncountableaeronauticsThe airspeed at which an aircraft leaves the runway on takeoff.

plural V2s

1. alternativeautomotiveAlternative form of V-twin.

plural V2s

1. alternativeAlternative form of V-2 (WWII rocket)

   Mr. A. J. Somers writes to say that the "V2" which caused the scrapping of "J17" 0-6-0, No. 8200, was not of the 2-6-2 type, but a considerably more destructive German rocket!

   1945 July and August, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 238

1. abbreviationhuman sciencesAbbreviation of verb-second (word order).

   As all the Germanic languages are V2 languages (except English, which also has neither object shift nor scrambling), and as the examples are main clauses without auxiliary verbs, the main verb has moved to C.

   1994, Sten Vikner, “Scandinavian object shift and West Germanic scrambling”, in Norbert Corver, Henk van Riemsdijk, editors, Studies on Scrambling […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 488