SVD (singular value decomposition) is a technique for dimensionality reduction that decomposes a matrix A into three matrices: U, Σ, and V. U and V are orthogonal matrices that represent the left and right singular vectors of A. Σ is a diagonal matrix containing the singular values of A in descending order. SVD can be used to reduce the dimensionality of data by projecting it onto only the first few principal components represented by the top singular vectors in U and V. This provides an interpretation of the data in a lower dimensional space while minimizing reconstruction error.