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Gib or GIB may refer to:


Places

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Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ...
, British overseas territory ** Gibraltar International Airport, IATA code GIB **
Gibraltar national football team The Gibraltar national football team represents Gibraltar in international football competitions, and is controlled by the Gibraltar Football Association. Gibraltar applied for full UEFA membership and was accepted by the UEFA Congress in May ...
, FIFA code GIB * Mount Gibraltar, known as The Gib, New South Wales, Australia * Gibsonia, PA USA (15044), aka The GIB


Business and organisations

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UK Green Investment Bank Green Investment Group Limited (GIG) is a specialist in green infrastructure principal investment, project delivery and the management of portfolio assets, and related services. The business was launched initially by the UK government in 2012 a ...
, a British financial institution * Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation, a Swiss independent, not-for-profit foundation


Science and technology

* Gibibyte, GiB, a multiple 230 of the unit byte *
Gibibit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...
, Gib, a multiple 230 of the unit bit * GPS intelligent buoys, acoustic positioning devices * Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer, 1998 world champion in
computer bridge Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software. After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th century the field of computer bridge has made major advances. In 1996 the American Contract Bridg ...
* Gib, an obsolete spelling of
jib A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bows, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast. Jibs and spinnakers are the two main types of headsails ...
, a horizontal beam used in many cranes * Gib and cotter, a wedge used with a cotter pin


Other uses

* Gibs (video gaming), fragments of a destroyed video game character * Gib, a neutered male
ferret The ferret (''Mustela furo'') is a small, Domestication, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae. The ferret is most likely a domesticated form of the wild European polecat (''Mustela putorius''), evidenced by their Hybrid (biol ...
* Gibanawa language, ISO 639-3 code gib, a form of
Hausa language Hausa (; /; Ajami: ) is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people in the northern half of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern half of Niger, Chad and Sudan, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast. Hausa is a member ...
* Gib series of books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder * AnEsonGib, British youtuber *
Gib Mihăescu Gib I. Mihăescu (; born Gheorghe I. Mihăescu; April 23, 1894 – October 19, 1935) was a Romanian prose writer and playwright. Born in Drăgășani, his parents were Ion Mihăescu-Stegaru, a lawyer, and his wife Ioana (''née'' Ceaușescu). He ...
, Romanian writer


See also

* * * Jib (disambiguation) *
Gibb (disambiguation) Gibb may refer to: * Gibb, surname * The Gibb, Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, UK; a hamlet * Gibb River, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia; a river * Gibb River Road, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia * Gibb High School, Kumta, Karn ...
* Gibi-, a
binary prefix A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units. It is most often used in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, principally in association with the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of& ...
meaning 10243 = 230 {{Disambiguation