Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

Stub (stock) A stub is the stock representing the remaining equity in a corporation left over after a major cash or security distribution from a buyout, a spin-out, a demerger or some other form of restructuring Restructuring is the corporate management term ...

, the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out * Stub, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk; see Pollarding *

Pay stub A paycheck, also spelled paycheque, pay check or pay cheque, is traditionally a paper document (a cheque) issued by an employer to pay an employee for services rendered. In recent times, the physical paycheck has been increasingly replaced by el ...

, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee *

Stub period In finance, in particular with reference to bonds and swaps, a stub period is a length of time over which interest In finance and economics, interest is payment from a borrower or deposit-taking financial institution to a lender or depositor ...

, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon *

Stub road An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed. An unused roadway or ramp may often be referred to as an abandoned road, ghost road, highway to nowhere, stub ramp, g ...

, an unused road junction * Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder

Computing and electronics

* Stub (distributed computing), a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing * Stub (electronics), a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines * Method stub, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality * Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks *

Test stub In advanced polymorphism computer science, test stubs are programs that simulate the behaviours of software components (or modules) that a module undergoing tests depends on. Test stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usuall ...

, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing

People

Given name or nickname

Stub Brown Richard P. "Stub" Brown (August 3, 1870 – March 10, 1948) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1893 to 1897, for the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. He stood at 6' 2" and weighed 220 lbs.

(1870–1938), American baseball player *

Stubb Ross Walter R. "Stubb" Ross, CM started the now-defunct airline Time Air near Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1966. He married his wife Margaret in 1953 and they had four children, Marjory, Lynn, Rod and Susan. In 1967—the year after Ross started Lethbridge ...

(died 1987), Canadian airline executive * Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, (1931–1995), barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician *

Stub Wiberg Lauritz Stub Wiberg (11 March 1875 – 24 June 1929) was a Norwegian actor. He made his stage debut at the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene in 1898, and played at Nationaltheatret in Kristiania from 1903. He participated in the film ''Glomdal ...

(1875–1929), Norwegian actor

Surname

* Alexander Stubb (born 1968), Finnish politician * Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet * Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player *

Jens Stub Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of Veøya and served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. Biography He was the so ...

(1764–1819), Norwegian politician *

Sverre Stub Sverre Stub (born 24 February 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a siv.øk. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He served at the United Nations delegation in Geneva from 1986 to 1990, at the ...

(born 1946), Norwegian diplomat

Other uses

Stub Place Stubb Place is a small settlement in western Cumbria, England. Known by locals in Waberthwaite as marshside, due to the name of the nearby cottages. It lies within the Lake District National Park The Lake District National Park is a national ...