AB
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AB, A-B, Ab, or ab can each refer to several things.
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[edit] Ab
Ab may mean:
- Ab is a Dutch name.
- Ab, the month of August in Arabic
- AB class, a locomotive class operated by the New Zealand Railways Department
- Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), the Egyptian concept of the heart-soul
- Abdominal muscles (abbreviated Ab), which are the rectus abdominis or the stomach muscles
- Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation," similar to AG, Ltd or Inc, as used in Finland
- Antibody, a medical abbreviation
- Av (month), a month in the Hebrew calendar
- Abbot, in the Christian Church; when the term Ab. follows the name of a Christian saint it denotes that the saint was an Abbot.
- Category of abelian groups
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ab may mean:
- Abkhazian language (ISO 639 language code)
- ab The ApacheBench command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
- Canada's subdomain for Alberta
- Semitic for "father", see Ab (father)
- Indo-European for "water", see ap (water).
- As a prefix, ab- may mean off, away from, or absolute
[edit] AB or A-B
AB or A-B may mean:
[edit] Locations, places, and types of places
- Aberdeen, after which the UK postal area AB is named.
- Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, commonly abbreviated as AB
- Albania (WMO country code)
- Alberta (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
- Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
- Ancienne Belgique, Belgian concert hall located in Brussels
- Anime Boston, an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts.
[edit] Companies, universities, and organizations, groups (and related)
- Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
- Air Berlin, IATA code
- AB Airlines, a defunct British airline
- Anheuser-Busch, the world's third largest brewing company
- Allen-Bradley, manufacturer of industrial control and automation products
- Alderson-Broaddus College, a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
- Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
- Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts, often abbreviated A.B.
- Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
- Afrikaner Broederbond, the South African secret society from 1918-1994
- Bachelor of Arts, written in the 19th century as A.B.
[edit] Medicine, science, technology, and math
- One of the human blood types in the ABO blood group system
- AB Class amplifier
- Aharonov-Bohm effect arising in a certain experiment of quantum mechanics.
- Abscesses caused by injections, especially heroin injection
- Antibody
- Aquatic Biology, an international scientific journal published by Inter-Research Science Center
[edit] Sports
- At Bat, baseball statistic
- Andris Biedriņš, basketball player
- Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
- AB is the nickname of legendary Australian cricketer Allan Border
- Atlanta Braves, an MLB Baseball team
- AB de Villiers, South African middle order batsman
[edit] Terms for people
- "Able-Bodied", as used by some members of the disabled community
- Able Seaman (occupation), a civilian occupation
- Able Seaman (rank), a naval rank
- Adult Baby, one who engages in infantilism.
- Airman Basic, the lowest rank in the United States Air Force.
- Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts.
- Good Eats host Alton Brown's nickname
[edit] Culture, food and history
- Aitareya Brahmana
- AB-Aktion, short for Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II
- An A-B conversation, the subject of a popular euphemism
- AB (food), a takeaway meal popular in Adelaide
- Address book
[edit] Miscellanea
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