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 ...
, on the Moon
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Gibbs, Missouri, US
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Gibbs, Tennessee
Harbison Crossroads is an unincorporated community of Knox County, Tennessee, United States, located approximately 10 miles Northeast of Knoxville. It is also referred by the unofficial name of Gibbs.
History
The area known today as Harbison Cr ...
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Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica
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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
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Gibbs' inequality
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Gibbs sampling
Physics
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Gibbs phase rule
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Gibbs free energy
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Gibbs entropy
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Gibbs paradox
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Gibbs–Helmholtz equation
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Gibbs algorithm
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Gibbs state
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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 ...
* Gibbs phenomenon, an
MRI artifact
Organisations
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Gibbs & Cox naval architecture firm
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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, several US locations
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Gibbs Technologies, developer and manufacturer of amphibious vehicles
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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 ...
, several schools of this name exist
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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, former name of the toothpaste Mentadent
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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
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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)
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Gipps (disambiguation)
Gipps may refer to:
* Gipps, a surname and list of people by that name
* Mount Gipps, Queensland, Australia
* Mount Gipps Station, New South Wales, Australia
* Mount Gipps railway station, New South Wales, Australia
* Gipps County, New South Wa ...
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