GB
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GB, or Gb may refer to:
Places
[edit | edit source]- United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
- Great Britain, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
- Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom
- Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan
- Guinea-Bissau, a sovereign state in West Africa
- Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
Businesses and organisations
[edit | edit source]- GB Airways, a British airline
- Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies
- Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls
- Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal
- University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, an American university
- ABX Air (IATA airline designator GB), a cargo airline
- GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company
- Griesedieck Brothers beer, an American beer brand
- GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour
- GB News, a British television news channel
Science and technology
[edit | edit source]Computing and electronics
[edit | edit source]- Gigabit (Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
- Gigabyte (GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
- Gain–bandwidth product, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
- Game Boy, a handheld video game console
- Guobiao standards, Chinese National Standards
- GB 2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters; also has partial support for Traditional, and some other languages, though in practice web browser support it as (i.e. with full support):
- GB 18030, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters, but with full support for Traditional, and all languages Unicode supports, since it's a full Unicode Transformation Format
Military technology
[edit | edit source]- Beechcraft GB Traveler, U.S. Navy aircraft
- Steyr GB, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun
- Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas
- GB-1, a World War II American glide bomb
- GB PGB, a series of Chinese precision guided bombs
Other uses in science and technology
[edit | edit source]- Ganglion blocker, a medication
- Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA
- Gilbert (unit) (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert
- Government and binding theory, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky
- Guillain–Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy
Sport
[edit | edit source]- Great Britain at the Olympics, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom
- Green Bay Packers, an American football team
- Games behind, a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams
People
[edit | edit source]- GB (footballer), (full name Gabriel Souza da Silva), Brazilian association footballer
- Guy Bomford, who also published as G.B.
Other uses
[edit | edit source]- Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
- Voiced labial–velar plosive, a consonant sound transcribed as /ɡ͡b/
- G♭ (musical note), a semitone
- G-flat major, a key
- Group buy, buying something as a collective
- Gazerbeam, a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film The Incredibles
- Goin' Bulilit, Philippine television show
See also
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