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Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element
lead Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:ML


Arts and entertainment


Music

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Paul's Boutique ''Paul's Boutique'' is the second studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989, by Capitol Records. Produced by the Dust Brothers, the album is composed almost entirely from samples, and was recorded over two y ...
,'' a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys *
Prussian Blue Prussian blue (also known as Berlin blue, Brandenburg blue or, in painting, Parisian or Paris blue) is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts. It has the chemical formula Fe CN)">Cyanide.html" ;"title="e(Cyani ...
, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo


Publications

* ''Performance Bikes'' (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine * ''
Playboy ''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. K ...
'', an American men's magazine * ''
Post-Bulletin The ''Post Bulletin'' is an American, English language newspaper and news website based in Rochester, MinnesotaPostbulletin.comprovides community coverage seven days a week with a print product two days a week: Tuesday and Saturday. The ''Post Bu ...
'', an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota


Television

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Princess Bubblegum Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (also called Bonnie or PB, occasionally P-bubs) is a fictional character in the American animated television series ''Adventure Time'', created by Pendleton Ward. She is voiced by Hynden Walch. Princess Bubblegum rules ...
, a character from the 2010 animated TV series ''Adventure Time'' * ''
Prison Break ''Prison Break'' is an American serial (radio and television), serial drama television show, television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. The series revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purce ...
'', an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009 * ''
Puppy Bowl The ''Puppy Bowl'' is an annual television program on Animal Planet that mimics an American football game similar to the Super Bowl, using puppies. Shown each year on Super Bowl Sunday, the show consists of footage of a batch of puppies at play ...
'', an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005


Anime-Manga

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Phantom Blood is a 1987 manga series created by Hirohiko Araki, and the first part of the larger ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series. The manga was originally serialized by Shueisha in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' under the title and was collected in five ...
'', the first story arc of ''shōnen'' manga series ''
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly ''seinen'' manga ...
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Companies and organizations

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Packard Bell Corporation Packard Bell Corporation (also known as Packard Bell Electronics or simply Packard Bell) was an American electronics manufacturer founded in 1933 by Herb Bell and Leon Packard. Initially they produced radios, but expanded into defense electro ...
, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics *
Packard Bell Packard Bell is a Dutch-registered computer manufacturing brand and subsidiary of Acer. Originally an American radio set manufacturer, Packard Bell Corporation, it was founded by Herbert A. Bell and Leon S. Packard in 1933. In 1986, Israeli in ...
, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company *
Palladium Books Palladium Books is a publisher of role-playing games (RPGs) perhaps best known for its popular, expansive '' Rifts'' series (1990–present). Palladium was founded April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan by current president and lead game designer Kevin ...
, a publisher of role-playing games *
Panera Bread Panera Bread is an American chain store of bakery-café fast casual restaurants with over 2,000 locations, all of which are in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri. The company operates as Saint Louis ...
, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada *
Parsons Brinckerhoff WSP USA, formerly WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Parsons Brinckerhoff, is a multinational engineering and design firm with approximately 14,000 employees. WSP stands for Williams Sale Partnership. The firm operates in the fields of strategic con ...
, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP *
PBair PBair was an airline with its head office in the UBC II Building in Vadhana, Bangkok, Thailand. It operated scheduled domestic and international services. Its main base was Suvarnabhumi Airport. It ceased all operations in December 2009. Hist ...
, a now-defunct Thai airline * Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website *
Piranha Bytes Piranha Bytes GmbH is a German video game developer based in Essen. Founded in 1997, it is best known for their ''Gothic'' and '' Risen'' series of role-playing video games. The studio is a subsidiary of THQ Nordic and, as of August 2021, empl ...
, a German video game developer *
Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated as TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download, and contribute mag ...
, a file-sharing organization *
Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes Inc. is an American technology company most known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment and services, and with expansions into e-commerce, software, and other technologies. The company was founded by Arthur Pitney, who i ...
, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping *
PocketBook International PocketBook is a multinational company which produces e-book readers based on E Ink technology (an electronic paper technology) under the ''PocketBook'' brand. The company was founded in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and its headquarters were shifted ...
, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand *
Pottery Barn Pottery Barn is an American upscale home furnishing store chain and e-commerce company, with retail stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Pottery Barn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. The company is headq ...
, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain *
ProBoards ProBoards is a free, remotely hosted message board service that facilitates online discussions by allowing people to create their own online communities. Ownership and service statistics ProBoards was founded and is owned by Patrick Clinger, wh ...
, an online message board service *
Prosperity Party The Prosperity Party ( am, ብልጽግና ፓርቲ, Bilits’igina Paritī; om, Paartii Badhaadhiinaa) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic F ...
(''Paartii Badhaadhiinaa''), a political party in Ethiopia


Economics and finance

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Payback period Payback period in capital budgeting Capital budgeting in corporate finance is the planning process used to determine whether an organization's long term capital investments such as new machinery, replacement of machinery, new plants, new product ...
, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment *
Performance bond A performance bond, also known as a contract bond, is a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor. The term is also used to denote a collateral deposit of good faith mon ...
, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor * Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme *
Price-to-book ratio The price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's current market value to its book value (where ''book value'' is the value of all assets minus liabilities owned by a company). The calculation can be performed ...
, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price *
Participatory budgeting Participatory budgeting (PB) is a type of citizen sourcing in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget through a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making. Participatory budgeting allows ci ...
, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget


Education

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Brunei Polytechnic Politeknik Brunei (abbreviation: PB; ms, Politeknik Brunei; Jawi: ڤوليتيكنيك بروني) is the first polytechnic in Brunei. The establishment of Politeknik Brunei was consented by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei ...
, a post-secondary institution in Brunei *
Philosophy and Belief Philosophy and Belief is a school subject taught at schools across South America. The subject bears many similarities to Religious Education (RE), a subject taught across the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Countries. Its main differences ...
, a school subject * Project Blogger, an Irish educational initiative * Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages


People

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Panda Bear (musician) Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective. In addition to his work with that group, Len ...
(born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective *
Chris Pontius Chris Pontius (born July 16, 1974) is an American stunt performer and television personality. He is best known as a cast member of the reality comedy show '' Jackass'' and co-host of its spinoff ''Wildboyz'' with fellow cast member Steve-O. ...
(born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"


Places


United States

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Pacific Beach, San Diego, California Pacific Beach is a neighborhood in San Diego, bounded by La Jolla to the north, Mission Beach and Mission Bay to the south, Interstate 5 to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. While formerly largely populated by young people, surfers ...
a neighborhood in San Diego, California *
Palm Bay, Florida Palm Bay is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The city's population was 119,760 at th2020 United States Census making it the most populous city in the county and the largest by land mass. The historic section of the city lies on the ...
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Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from several nearby cities including West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoas ...
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combin ...
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Pismo Beach, California Pismo Beach (Chumash: ''Pismuʔ'') is a city in the southern portion of San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast area of California, United States. The estimated population was 8,072 at the 2020 census, up from 7,655 in the 2010 census. It ...


Other countries

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Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...
, a state of Brazil *
Port Blair Port Blair () is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (''tehsil'') of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South An ...
, a town in the Andaman Islands *
Punjab (disambiguation) The Punjab region is an area of South Asia stretching from central and eastern Pakistan to northwest India. Punjab or Panjab may also refer to: Places *Punjab, India, a state and eastern part of the Punjab in India *Punjab, Pakistan, a province ...
, the name of several locations in South Asia *
Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...
, town in Germany, known by its vehicle registration code PB *
Považská Bystrica Považská Bystrica (; german: Waagbistritz; hu, Vágbeszterce) is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh river, around 30 km from the city of Žilina. It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism. Profile Považská B ...
, town in Slovakia, known by its vehicle registration code PB *
CIA cryptonym CIA cryptonyms are code names or code words used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to refer to projects, operations, persons, agencies, etc. Format of cryptonyms CIA cryptonyms sometimes contain a two character prefix called a digrap ...
for Guatemala.


Science and technology


Chemistry

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Lead Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
, symbol Pb, a chemical element *
Polybutylene Polybutylene (polybutene-1, poly(1-butene), PB-1) is a polyolefin or saturated polymer with the chemical formula (CH2CH(Et))n. Not be confused with polybutene, PB-1 is mainly used in piping. Production Polybutylene is produced by polymerisation ...
, a polymer of the substance butylene


Computing and software

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Petabit 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 ...
(Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000
terabits 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 ...
used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity *
Petabyte 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 ...
(PB), a unit of information equivalent to 1000
terabytes 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 ...
which is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity *
PowerBook The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1991 to 2006. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and r ...
, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple *
PowerBuilder PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by SAP since the acquisition of Sybase in 2010. On July 5, 2016, SAP and Appeon entered into an agreement whereby Appeon, an independent company, would be responsible for developing, se ...
, an integrated software development environment *
PunkBuster PunkBuster is a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games. It does this by scanning the memory contents of the local machine. A computer identified as using cheats may be banned from connecting to pro ...
, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games


Medicine

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Peripheral blood Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the c ...
, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system *
Phenobarbital Phenobarbital, also known as phenobarbitone or phenobarb, sold under the brand name Luminal among others, is a medication of the barbiturate type. It is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the treatment of certain types of ep ...
, a barbiturate


Other uses in science and technology

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PB (pistol) The PB (russian: Пистолет бесшумный , translit= Pistolet besshumnyy, lit= Pistol Silent, English: Silent Pistol; GRAU index 6P9) is a Soviet integrally suppressed semi-automatic pistol developed and manufactured by the Izhevsk ...
, a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB *
Picobarn A barn (symbol: b) is a metric unit of area equal to (100  fm2). Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is also used in all fields of high-energy physics to expr ...
, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics *
Pipe bomb A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device which uses a tightly sealed section of pipe (material), pipe filled with an explosive material. The containment provided by the pipe means that simple Explosive material#Low explosives, low explosi ...
, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material *
Push button A push-button (also spelled pushbutton) or simply button is a simple switch mechanism to control some aspect of a machine or a process. Buttons are typically made out of hard material, usually plastic or metal. The surface is usually flat or sh ...
, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user


Sports

* Personal Best, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event. *
Paintball Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot using low-energy ai ...
, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun *
Passed ball In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been maintained under his control, and, as a result of this loss of control, the batter or a ru ...
, in baseball


Transportation

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Patrol boat A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement. There are many designs for patrol boats, and the ...
, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties *
Pilatus Railway The Pilatus Railway (german: Pilatusbahn, links=no, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. The line runs from Alpnachstad, on Lake Alpna ...
or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland *
Irizar PB The Irizar PB is a coach body manufactured by the Irizar Group from 2001 to 2015. It was built upon of the wide range of chassis. It was designed by Arup Design Research in the UK. Its revolutionary styling and features led to the variant wi ...
, a bus coach body


Other uses

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Paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) book ...
, a type of book *
Peanut butter Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts. It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers. Peanut butter is consumed in many countri ...
, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts *
Powerball Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). From its inaugural drawing on April 19, 1992, unti ...
, an American lottery game * Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity *
Pro bono ( en, 'for the public good'), usually shortened to , is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. In the United States, the term typically refers to provision of legal services by legal professionals for pe ...
, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service * Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods


See also

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BP (disambiguation) BP is a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London. BP, bp, and Bp may also refer to: Business and organisations Businesses *BP Canada, a division of the oil company BP *BP Studio, a Florentine fashion house *Air Botswana, IATA ...
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