GB
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GB may stand for:
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[edit] In geography
- Gabon (FIPS 10-4 and NATO (obsolete) country code: GB), a country in Central Africa
- Gambia (ICAO airport designator prefix and WMO country code: GB), a country in West Africa
- Great Britain, an island in Europe
- Note that the ISO 3166 country code GB stands for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and not the island of Great Britain.
- Guinea Bissau (casual abbreviation G.B.), a country in West Africa
[edit] In politics
- Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister
- George W. Bush, the US President
[edit] In language
- Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
- Government and binding, theory by Noam Chomsky
[edit] In science
- Sarin, nerve gas (NATO designation: GB)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute inflammatory polyneuropathy
[edit] In electronics
- 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 (GB or GBW), product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth (e.g., unity-gain frequency of frequency compensated operational amplifiers)
- Game Boy line, a line of handheld video game consoles
- GB2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters.
[edit] In sports
- Games behind, in sports scores
- The Green Bay Packers, a National Football League Team
- Ground Ball, a pitching stat in Baseball
[edit] In transportation
- GB Airways
- ABX Air (IATA airline designator: GB)
[edit] In food
- GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company
- Griesedieck Brothers beer
- GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain
[edit] In music
- Garth Brooks, a country music singer.
- Gnarls Barkley, an alternative hip-hop group.
- Glen Benton, Bassist/Vocalist of Death Metal band. Deicide (band)
- Gorilla Biscuits, a hardcore punk group.
- GB, pseudonym of music producer Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker.
[edit] Other
- Gary Busey
- Ghostbusters, a 1984 comedy film
- Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Guobiao, Chinese National Standards
- GunBound, a computer game
- Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies