ARB

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ARB may stand for:

In the military:

• Administrative Review Board, conduct annual hearings, to determine whether captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps continue to represent a threat to the USA's national security.
• Air Reserve base, a United States Air Force base converted for use by the Reserves.
• Armee Revolutionnaire Bretonne (Breton Revolutionary Army), an armed Breton Nationalist secret society that has attacked France.
• A hull classification symbol, used for United States Navy battle damage repair ships.

In science, technology, and engineering:

• Angiotensin receptor blocker (antagonist), a medication for treating high blood pressure.
• Anti-roll bar, also known as a Sway bar.
• ARB Project, for phylogenetic analysis.
• Arbitron, a radio audience research company.
• Architects Registration Board, United Kingdom.
• OpenGL Architecture Review Board, a consortium governing OpenGL.

In transportation and geography:

• Akawaio language (SIL code), a Cariban language of Guyana.
• Several transportation facilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan:
  • Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (IATA airport code).
  • Ann Arbor train station (Amtrak station code).
• Arbroath railway station, United Kingdom (National rail code).
• Arth-Rigi-Bahn, a Swiss mountain railway.

In Government:

• Administrative Review Board (Labor) - a unit of the U.S. Department of Labor

In finance, economics, or business ARB or arb may also be an abbreviation for:

• Arbitrage.
• Arbitrary.
• Arbitration.
• Arb (gesture), a system of hand gestures used most notably on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.