CB and variants may refer to:

Places

CB postcode area The CB postcode area, also known as the Cambridge postcode area, is a group of sixteen postcode districts in the east of England, within five post towns. These cover much of south and east Cambridgeshire (including Cambridge and Ely), plus p ...

, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office *

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

(FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram CB) *

Cape Breton (disambiguation) Cape Breton Island is an island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in Canada. Cape Breton may also refer to: Places On Cape Breton Island * Cape Breton, a cape at the eastern tip of Cape Breton Island, Canada * Cape Breton Highlands, a ...

Centura București Centura București ( en, Bucharest Beltway, Bucharest Ring Road, italic=yes), sometimes referred to as the DNCB, is a national-class road in Romania, circling the capital city of Bucharest. It is not to be mistaken with the planned Bucharest Ri ...

, a ring road of Bucharest, Romania * Colegio Bolivar, an American school in Cali, Colombia *

Colwyn Bay Colwyn Bay ( cy, Bae Colwyn) is a town, community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea. It lies within the historic county of Denbighshire. Eight neighbouring communities are incorpo ...

, Wales *

Province of Campobasso A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

, Italy * ČB –

České Budějovice České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše. České Budějovice is t ...

, Czech Republic

People

Chris Bosh Christopher Wesson Bosh (born March 24, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player. A Texas Mr. Basketball in high school, he played one season of college basketball for Georgia Tech before declaring for the 2003 NBA draft. Bo ...

(born 1984), American basketball player *

Henry Campbell-Bannerman Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (né Campbell; 7 September 183622 April 1908) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. He served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1 ...

(1836–1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1906–1908, widely referred to by his surname initials

Brands and enterprises

Carte Bancaire ''Groupement des cartes bancaires CB'' ("CB Bank card Group"), also known as simply CB, is France's national interbank network, with over 46,000 ATMs and over 1 million EFTPOS acceptance points. ''Carte Bleue'' Visa is a brand often associated ...

, a bank card brand *

Christianssands Bryggeri Christianssands Bryggeri (or CB, Kristiansand's Brewery) is a Norwegian brewery centred in Kristiansand. Together with Hansa Bryggeri in Bergen and Borg Bryggerier in Sarpsborg it makes up Hansa Borg Bryggerier AS, which is the second largest gro ...

, a Norwegian brewery * ScotAirways (IATA airline code CB)

Business and financial terms

Capacity building Capacity building (or capacity development, capacity strengthening) is the improvement in an individual's or organization's facility (or capability) "to produce, perform or deploy". The terms ''capacity building'' and ''capacity development'' ha ...

, the process by which individuals and organizations obtain, improve, and retain the skills and knowledge needed to undertake their tasks *

Certification body Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply ''certification'' or ''qualification'', is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task. Not all certifications ...

Chargeback A chargeback is a return of money to a payer of a transaction, especially a credit card transaction. Most commonly the payer is a consumer. The chargeback reverses a money transfer from the consumer's bank account, line of credit, or credit ...

, a reversal of a banking or credit card transaction * Convertible bond, a type of bond that can convert into a specified number of shares

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Cell Broadcast, in GSM mobile networks *

Citizens band radio Citizens band radio (also known as CB radio), used in many countries, is a land mobile radio system, a system allowing short-distance person-to-many persons bidirectional voice communication among individuals, using two way radios operating on ...

(CB radio), a system of short-distance radio communications *

Closed beta A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...

, a software development stage or testing process

Other uses in science and technology

Cannabinoids Cannabinoids () are several structural classes of compounds found in the cannabis plant primarily and most animal organisms (although insects lack such receptors) or as synthetic compounds. The most notable cannabinoid is the phytocannabinoid tet ...

, a group of substances that bind to animal cannabinoid receptors *

Circuit breaker A circuit breaker is an electrical safety device designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by an overcurrent or short circuit. Its basic function is to interrupt current flow to protect equipment and to prevent the ris ...

, an automatic electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overcurrent *

Columbium Niobium is a chemical element with chemical symbol Nb (formerly columbium, Cb) and atomic number 41. It is a light grey, crystalline, and ductile transition metal. Pure niobium has a Mohs hardness rating similar to pure titanium, and it has sim ...

(Cb), an obsolete name for the element niobium * Conduction band of the electrons in a (

semiconducting A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...

) solid * Confirmation bias *

Cumulonimbus cloud Cumulonimbus (from Latin ''cumulus'', "heaped" and ''nimbus'', "rainstorm") is a dense, towering vertical cloud, typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents. ...

(Cb), a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather

Sea vessels

CB-class midget submarine The CB class was a group of midget submarines built for the Italian Navy during World War II. However, they were also used by several other navies, seeing action in the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea. Construction and specifications The subma ...

, a group of midget submarines built for the Italian Navy during World War II *

Block coefficient A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, d ...

(C_b), a parameter describing the shape of a ship's hull * Large Cruiser, a retired US Navy hull classification (symbol CB)

Sports

Positions

* Centre-back, a defensive position in association football *

Cornerback A cornerback (CB) is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in gridiron football. Cornerbacks cover Wide receiver, receivers most of the time, but also blitz and defend against such Play from scrimmage, offensive running plays as sweep ...

, a position in American football

Teams

* Chicago Bears, a team in the National Football League *

Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January ...

, a team in the National Basketball Association *

Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (A ...

, a team in the National Football League

Titles

Chief Baron of the Exchequer The Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (meaning judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who pre ...

, the chief judge of the Court of Exchequer, an abolished English court *

Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as on ...

, a title conferred to British and Commonwealth citizens

Other uses

* * 2020 Singapore circuit breaker measures, commonly abbreviated as CB, a stay-at-home order implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore * CB, dominical letter for a

leap year starting on Friday A leap year starting on Friday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Friday 1 January and ends on Saturday 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are CB. The most recent year of such kind was 2016 and the next one ...

* '' Casus belli'', a Latin expression meaning reason for war *

Construction Battalion , colors = , mascot = Bumblebee , battles = Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, Los Negros, Guam, Peleliu, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Philippine ...

(CB or "Seabee"), a United States Navy unit responsible for any type of construction be it general or combat on land or under water. * Curveball, a music festival hosted by the band Phish * Cone Beam (especially CBCT;

Cone beam computed tomography Cone beam computed tomography (or CBCT, also referred to as C-arm CT, cone beam volume CT, flat panel CT or Digital Volume Tomography (DVT)) is a medical imaging technique consisting of X-ray computed tomography where the X-rays are divergent, f ...

) * Cumulative Bulletin, an annual compilation of the ''

Internal Revenue Bulletin The ''Internal Revenue Bulletin'' (also known as the ''IRB''), is a weekly publication of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that announces "official rulings and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service and for publishing Treasury Decisions, Execu ...

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