LB, lb or lb. may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

L Brands Bath & Body Works, Inc. (formerly known as L Brands, Inc., Limited Brands, Inc. and The Limited, Inc.) is an American specialty retail company based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $11.9 billion in revenue in 2021, and was ...

, an American clothing retailer * Lane Bryant, a plus-size clothing retailer * Laurier Brantford, a satellite campus of Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario, Canada * Movement for Unification ( sq, Lëvizja për Bashkim), a nationalist Albanian political party in Kosovo * Ljubljana Bank ( sl, Ljubljanska banka), a bank named after and based in Ljubljana, Slovenia that operated in SFR Yugoslavia * airline (IATA code) * (''Left Bank'' (online edition), a Ukrainien online newspaper

Places

Labrador , nickname = "The Big Land" , etymology = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 ...

(former postal abbreviation) *

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lie ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) *

Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate ...

* Los Baños, Laguna (an abbreviation commonly used to address the town of Los Baños)

Science and technology

Mathematics and computing

.lb .lb is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Lebanon. The official registration rules say that it is necessary to have a Lebanese trademark A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual p ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Lebanon * Lattice Boltzmann methods, a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation *

Liberty BASIC Liberty BASIC (LB) is a commercial computer programming language and integrated development environment (IDE). It has an BASIC interpreter , interpreter, developed in Smalltalk, which recognizes its own Programming language#Dialects, flavors and ...

, a programming language *

Binary logarithm In mathematics, the binary logarithm () is the power to which the number must be raised to obtain the value . That is, for any real number , :x=\log_2 n \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad 2^x=n. For example, the binary logarithm of is , the ...

, *

Lower bound In mathematics, particularly in order theory, an upper bound or majorant of a subset of some preordered set is an element of that is greater than or equal to every element of . Dually, a lower bound or minorant of is defined to be an elemen ...

, a mathematical concept in order theory

Units of measurement

Pound (mass) The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defi ...

, abbreviation derived from Latin ''libra'' *

Pound-force The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf,) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system. Pound-force should not be confused with pou ...

Other uses in science and technology

*"L" shaped

electrical conduit An electrical conduit is a tube used to protect and route electrical wiring in a building or structure. Electrical conduit may be made of metal, plastic, fiber, or fired clay. Most conduit is rigid, but flexible conduit is used for some purpo ...

body with the outlet in the Back ("LB") *

Lysogeny broth Lysogeny broth (LB) is a nutritionally rich medium primarily used for the growth of bacteria. Its creator, Giuseppe Bertani, intended LB to stand for lysogeny broth, but LB has also come to colloquially mean Luria broth, Lennox broth, life br ...

(also known as Luria or Luria-Bertani broth), a microbial growth medium

Sport

Left back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

, a defensive position in Association football *

Linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

, a position in American and Canadian football

Other uses

LB (car ferries) LB (car ferries) or locally simply LB was a car and lorry ferry line that between 1955 and 1981 operated on the HH Ferry route between Helsingør (Elsinore), Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden. They were the first operator on this ...

, one of several ferries on the HH Ferry route between Elsinore, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden * Luxembourgish language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code) * Letterboxing (filming) {{disambiguation