XV can refer to different things depending on the context. Here are some possible meanings of XV:

• XV (rapper): XV is the stage name of Donavan LaMond Johnson, an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Wichita, Kansas. He first gained major attention after the release of his twelfth mixtape Everybodys Nobody, for which he received two awards from DJBooth.net. His name, XV, refers to the age (15) at which he began his musical career).

• XV (Roman numeral): XV is a Roman numeral that represents the number 15. It is formed by combining the letters X (10) and V (5) .

• XV (number): XV is also a cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one, which is equivalent to the number 15.

• xv (program): xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System. It was popular in the early 1990s, but no official releases have been made since December 1994. Bradley was unable to negotiate the LZW patent license necessary for encoding the then-popular GIF format. The patent has now expired, so this legal constraint is no longer relevant. Until at least 2000, Bradley collected third-party updates to xv, for example support for the PNG image format.

In summary, XV can refer to a rapper, a Roman numeral, a cardinal number, or a shareware program for displaying and modifying digital images.