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{{Wiktionary|GB|Gb}} '''GB''', or '''Gb''' may refer to: {{TOC right}} ==Places== <!--keep to top--> * [[United Kingdom]] (ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ** [[Great Britain]], an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ** [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] (1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom * [[Gilgit-Baltistan]], a region in northern Pakistan * [[Guinea-Bissau]], a sovereign state in West Africa * [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]], United States * [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts]], United States ==Businesses and organisations== * [[GB Airways]], a British airline * [[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), a cargo airline * [[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 * [[GB News]], a British television news channel ==Science and technology== ===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]], a handheld video game console * [[Guobiao standards]], Chinese National Standards ** [[GB 2312]], an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters; also has partial support for Traditional, and some other languages, though in practice web browser support it as (i.e. with full support): ** [[GB 18030]], an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters, but with full support for Traditional, and all languages Unicode supports, since it's a full Unicode Transformation Format ===Military technology=== * [[Beechcraft GB Traveler]], U.S. Navy aircraft * [[Steyr GB]], an Austrian semi-automatic handgun * [[Sarin]] (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas * [[GB-1]], a World War II American glide bomb * [[GB PGB]], a series of Chinese precision guided bombs ===Other uses in science and technology=== * [[Ganglion blocker]], a medication * [[Gigabase]] (Gb), a unit of length for DNA * [[Gilbert (unit)]] (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert * [[Government and binding theory]], in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky * [[Guillain–Barré syndrome]], an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy ==Sport== * [[Great Britain at the Olympics]], the Olympic team of the United Kingdom * [[Green Bay Packers]], an American football team * [[Games behind]], a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams ==People== * [[GB (footballer)]], (full name Gabriel Souza da Silva), Brazilian association footballer * [[Guy Bomford]], who also published as G.B. ==Other uses== * [[Gb (digraph)]], a digraph in the Latin alphabet * [[Voiced labial–velar plosive]], a consonant sound transcribed as {{IPA|/ɡ͡b/}} * [[G♭ (musical note)]], a semitone ** [[G-flat major]], a key * [[Group buying|Group buy]], buying something as a collective * [[Gazerbeam]], a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film ''The Incredibles'' * ''[[Goin' Bulilit]]'', Philippine television show ==See also== * [[BG (disambiguation)]] * [[Gigabyte (disambiguation)]] * [[GBS (disambiguation)]] {{disambiguation}}
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