GB

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GB may stand for:

In geography

• Gabon (FIPS 10-4 and NATO (obsolete) 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.
• Green Bay

In politics

• Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• George H.W. Bush
• George W. Bush
• Glenn Beck

In language

• Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
• Government and binding, theory by Noam Chomsky

In science

• Sarin, nerve gas (NATO designation: GB).
• Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute inflammatory polyneuropathy.
• Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA

In electronics and computing

• 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.
• GB 2312 or GB 18030, two encoding schemes for rendering Simplified Chinese characters
• GarageBand, a music editing software designed for Mac OS X by Apple Computer.

In transportation

• GB is the international vehicle registration code for the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
• GB Airways.
• ABX Air (IATA airline designator: GB).

In food

• GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company.
• Griesedieck Brothers beer.
• GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain.

In music

• Garth Brooks, a country music singer.
• Gnarls Barkley, an alternative hip-hop group.
• Glen Benton, the bassist/vocalist of the death metal band Deicide
• Gorilla Biscuits, a hardcore punk group.
• Grizzly Bear (band), a Brooklyn-based indie rock band.

Other

• Games Behind, a number used in sport statistics to reflect the gap between two teams.
• Gang Bang, a term for group sex.
• Gary Busey
• Gay Bombay the premier Social Gay Organization in Mumbai, India.
• Ghostbusters, a 1984 comedy film.
• Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls.
• Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal.
• University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
• Guobiao, Chinese National Standards.
• GunBound, a computer game.
• Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies.
• Garbage Bowl, often used by Rachael Ray in Food Network's 30 Minute Meals.
• Gladiator Beasts, a powerful deck type in the Yu-gi-oh TCG
• Games Behind or Games Back, in baseball and basketball
• Good Burger
• Gift Back In Gaiaonline forum casinos, an amount of gold or an item given back after winning a bet, to be polite. Usually 10%.

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