GB

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GB or Gb may refer to:

Places

• Gilgit-Baltistan, northmost political entity, in Pakistan
• United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code)
  • Great Britain, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe

Computing and 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, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
• Game Boy line, a line of handheld video game consoles
• Guobiao standards, Chinese National Standards
  • GB 2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters
  • GB 18030, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters

Organisations

• GB Airways
• 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)
• 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

Science

• Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas
• Guillain–Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy
• Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA
• Ganglion blocker, a medication that inhibits transmission between preganglionic and postganglionic neurons

Music

• G♭ (musical note)
  • G-flat major, a key

Sport

• Great Britain at the Olympics, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom
• Green Bay Packers, an American football team
• Games behind, a number used in sport statistics to reflect the gap between two teams

Other uses

• Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
• Government and binding theory, by Noam Chomsky
• Beechcraft GB Traveler, the U.S. Navy version of the Model 17 Staggerwing aircraft