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Gibbs or GIBBS is a surname and acronym. It may refer to:


People

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Gibbs (surname) Gibbs (usually pronounced ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname *Alan Gibbs (born 1939), New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector *Alfred Gibbs (1823–1868), brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civ ...


Places

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Gibbs (crater) Gibbs is a lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is situated less than a crater diameter to the northeast of the larger crater Hecataeus. The crater chain Catena Humboldt passes to the south of Gibbs, following a li ...
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Gibbs, Missouri Gibbs is a village in Wilson Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 107 at the 2010 census. History The town of Gibbs was an outgrowth of the Santa Fe Railroad, laid out in 1887 when the rail lines passed through ...
, US * Gibbs, Tennessee, US * Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica *
2937 Gibbs 2937 Gibbs, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 June 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Low ...
, an asteroid


Science


Mathematics and statistics

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Gibbs phenomenon In mathematics, the Gibbs phenomenon, discovered by Available on-line at:National Chiao Tung University: Open Course Ware: Hewitt & Hewitt, 1979. and rediscovered by , is the oscillatory behavior of the Fourier series of a piecewise continuousl ...
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Gibbs sampling In statistics, Gibbs sampling or a Gibbs sampler is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate probability distribution, when direct sampling is dif ...


Physics

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Gibbs phase rule In thermodynamics, the phase rule is a general principle governing "pVT" systems, whose thermodynamic states are completely described by the variables pressure (), volume () and temperature (), in thermodynamic equilibrium. If is the number of d ...
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Gibbs free energy In thermodynamics, the Gibbs free energy (or Gibbs energy; symbol G) is a thermodynamic potential that can be used to calculate the maximum amount of work that may be performed by a thermodynamically closed system at constant temperature and pr ...
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Gibbs paradox In statistical mechanics, a semi-classical derivation of entropy that does not take into account the indistinguishability of particles yields an expression for entropy which is not extensive (is not proportional to the amount of substance in qu ...
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Gibbs–Helmholtz equation The Gibbs–Helmholtz equation is a thermodynamic equation used for calculating changes in the Gibbs free energy of a system as a function of temperature. It was originally presented in an 1882 paper entitled " Die Thermodynamik chemischer Vorgange ...
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Gibbs algorithm 200px, Josiah Willard Gibbs In statistical mechanics, the Gibbs algorithm, introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902, is a criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of microstates of a thermodynamic system by min ...
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Gibbs-Marangoni effect The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two phases due to a gradient of the surface tension. In the case of temperature dependence, this phenomenon may be called thermo-capill ...
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MRI artifact An MRI artifact is a visual artifact (an anomaly seen during visual representation) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is a feature appearing in an image that is not present in the original object. Many different artifacts can occur during MRI, ...


Organisations

* Gibbs & Cox naval architecture firm *
Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS) is an educational platform with a focus on business creation within the bio- and life sciences in Gothenburg, Sweden. As a student at the school you are studying intellectual property ...
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Gibbs College Katharine Gibbs College was a for-profit institution of higher learning based in the United States of America, founded by Katharine Gibbs. As the Providence School in Rhode Island, it was founded in 1911 as an institution for the career educati ...
, several US locations * Gibbs Technologies, developer and manufacturer of amphibious vehicles *
Gibbs High School (disambiguation) Gibbs High School may refer to: * Gibbs High School, Kumta, India *Gibbs High School (St. Petersburg, Florida), in the Pinellas County school district *Gibbs High School (Corryton, Tennessee) Gibbs High School is a public high school located in ...
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Antony Gibbs & Sons Antony Gibbs & Sons was a British trading company, established in London in 1802, whose interests spanned trading in cloth, guano, wine and fruit, and led to it becoming involved in banking, shipping and insurance. Having been family-owned via a ...
, British trading company, established in London in 1802


Other uses

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Gibbs SR Mentadent is a brand name for a line of dental products manufactured by Unilever for its home and international markets excluding the United States and Canada where the company sold its rights to the brand to Church & Dwight Company in 2003. In 2 ...
, former name of the toothpaste Mentadent * Gibbs Stadium, Spartanburg, South Carolina, US


See also

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Gibbs' Reflective Cycle Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to take a critical stance or attitude towards one's own practice and that of one's peers, engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning. According to one defini ...
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List of things named after Josiah W. Gibbs {{Short description, none Things named after American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs: *Gibbs algorithm *Quantum_statistical_mechanics#Gibbs_canonical_ensemble, Gibbs canonical ensemble *Gibbs distribution *Surface rheology, Gibbs elasticity *Gibbs ...
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Gibbes (disambiguation) Gibbes may refer to: People * Gibbes, a surname * Gibbes baronets later Osborne-Gibbes baronets, titles in the Baronetage of Great Britain Places * Mount Gibbes, of the Black Mountains, North Carolina, U.S. * Gibbes, and Gibbes Bay, Saint Peter, ...
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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 ...
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Gib (disambiguation) The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ...
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