SB or Sb may refer to:

Places

* Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code SB) *

Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ...

, US * San Bernardino, California, US *

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

(ISO 3166 country code SB) * South Burlington, Vermont * Sibiu County,

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

Organisations

Special Branch Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence in Policing in the United Kingdom, British, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, ...

, of UK and some Commonwealth police * Służba Bezpieczeństwa, secret police in communist Poland *

Sluzhba Bezpeky Sluzhba Bezpeky or SB OUN, (in Ukrainian: Служба безпеки ОУН (б), СБ ОУН) was the Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service, and a division of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists responsible for clandestine ope ...

, WWII Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service * Shaw Brothers Studio, a Hong Kong movie company *

Statistics Bureau (Japan) The is the statistical agency of Japan, subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Its headquarters is in the ministry's Second Government Office (第2庁舎), in , Shinjuku, Tokyo. Map/ref> See also * Japan Statistical ...

Science and technology

* SB buffer, for electrophoresis *

Antimony Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (from la, stibium) and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient time ...

, symbol Sb, a chemical element * Barred spiral galaxy, in astronomy *

Scientiæ Baccalaureus A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

or Bachelor of Science, an academic degree *

Spectroscopic binary A binary star is a system of two star, stars that are gravity, gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night sky that are seen as a single object to the naked eye are often resolved using a telescope as separa ...

stars, designated SB1 and SB2 * Stilb (unit) (symbol sb), a unit of luminance *

sideband In radio communications, a sideband is a band of frequencies higher than or lower than the carrier frequency, that are the result of the modulation process. The sidebands carry the information transmitted by the radio signal. The sidebands co ...

* Spina bifida

Computing

.sb file Scratch is a high-level block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool for programming, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16. Users on the site, called Scratchers, can create project ...

, the file format for Scratch Projects ** .sb2 file and .sb3, the file formats for Scratch 2 and 3 *

.sb .sb is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a region, geographical ...

, Internet country code top-level domain for Solomon Islands

Sport and games

Nike SB Nike Skateboarding, primarily known as Nike SB, is the Nike brand for its line of shoes, clothing, and equipment for skateboarding. Nike Skateboarding won the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Home/Welcome Page in the category Web. Hist ...

, skateboarding shoes * "Season's Best", an athletics abbreviation *

Stolen base In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base to which they are not entitled and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner. The umpires determine whether the runner is safe or ...

, in baseball *

Sonneborn–Berger score The Sonneborn–Berger score (or the Neustadtl score) is a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments. It is computed by summing the conventional score of each defeated opponent, and half the conventional score of each drawn opp ...

, a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments *

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...

, annual American football championship * ''

Smash Bros. ''Super Smash Bros.'' is a crossover fighting game series published by Nintendo. The series was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed every game in the series. The series is known for its unique gameplay objective which differs from ...

'', a platform fighting video game series featuring characters from Nintendo and third-party franchises

Transportation

Aircalin Société Aircalin, also known as Air Calédonie International, is the flag carrier of the French collectivity of New Caledonia, with its headquarters in Nouméa. It operates scheduled services from its main base at La Tontouta International A ...

(IATA airline code) * Sailing barge (

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/n ...

) * Skagensbanen (''the Skagen Railway''), a Danish railway line and company *

South Buffalo Railway The South Buffalo Railway operates more than fifty miles of railway lines along the southeast shore of Lake Erie, in the United States. South Buffalo connects to CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian Pacific, and Canadian National Railway. Historical ...

(reporting code) * Tupolev SB, a Soviet bomber of World War II *

Toyota SB The SA was Toyota's first new passenger car design (as opposed to updating the AA) after World War II. It was the first in a family of vehicles before the introduction of the Crown. A series of light trucks also shared the chassis and major comp ...

, car * SB craft, an Imperial Japanese Army variant of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ''No. 101''-class landing ship

Other uses

* Special Warfare Boat Operator rating, US Navy *

Senate Bill A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature as well as, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an '' ...

, typically coded like "SB 1234" * ''

Sonderbehandlung (, "special treatment") is any sort of preferential treatment. However, the word ''Sonderbehandlung'' was used as an euphemism for mass murder by Nazi functionaries and the SS, who commonly used the abbreviation ''S.B.'' in documentation. It ...

'', German Nazi era euphemism for mass murder *

Soldier Boy Soldier Boy is the name of three superhero characters in the comic book series ''Herogasm'' and '' The Boys'', created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The first character introduced (the second successor to the mantle, made by Vought along w ...

, three fictional superheroes *

Substantive A noun () is a word that generally functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Example nouns for: * Living creatures (including people, alive, d ...

, or noun, in some languages

Saint

* St. Bonaventure {{disambiguation