Stub

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A Wikipedia stub is a short article in need of expansion. View the main list of stub categories and articles contained within them.

Stub may refer to:

• A stub, mature tree cut above a height of 3-5 metres and retained as a standing stem following timber harvest, usually for wildlife or archaeological purposes. (All other meanings are metaphors of this.)
• A method stub, in computer programming
• A stub network, in computer networking
• A stub (circuit), a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines
• A piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing
• A short railway or bus line
• An unequal first or last interest calculation period, usually as a part of a swap contract
• A pay stub, usually a receipt or record that the employer has paid their employee
• A ticket stub, which, once a ticket is collected, is usually the remaining end of the ticket
• Ambrosius Stub, a Danish poet
• A docked tail of a dog is also known as a stub

[edit] See also

• Stubbs disambiguation.