GB, or Gb may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

(ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe **

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...

, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe **

Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ...

(1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom * Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan *

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ), ...

, a sovereign state in West Africa * Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States *

Great Barrington, Massachusetts Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,172 at the 2020 census. Both a summer resort and home to Ski Butternut, ...

, United States

Businesses and organisations

GB Airways GB Airways was a British airline; prior to its sale, it was headquartered in "The Beehive," a former terminal building, at City Place Gatwick, London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was originally created as ' ...

, a British airline * Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies *

Girls' Brigade The Girls' Brigade is an international, interdenominational Christian youth organisation. It was founded in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. The modern organization was formed as the result of the amalgamation of three like-minded and similarly structu ...

, a Christian organization for girls * Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal *

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay The University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UW-Green Bay, UWGB, or Green Bay) is a public university in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with regional campuses in Marinette, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan. Founded in 1965, it is part of the University of Wiscons ...

, an American university *

ABX Air ABX Air, Inc., formerly Airborne Express, is a cargo airline headquartered at Wilmington Air Park near the City of Wilmington, Ohio, Wilmington, Ohio, USA. ABX Air operates scheduled, ad hoc charter and Aircraft lease, ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Mai ...

(IATA airline designator GB), a cargo airline *

GB Glace GB Glace (originally Glace-Bolaget until 1991) is the largest ice cream company in Sweden. It was founded in 1942 and after they had become a partner in 1973, was eventually fully purchased by the United Kingdom, Anglo-Netherlands, Dutch company Uni ...

, a Swedish ice cream company *

Griesedieck Brothers beer Griesedieck Brothers Beer is a historic St. Louis beer brand that has been reintroduced after years of absence. The Griesedieck family once owned three St. Louis-area breweries, Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. in ...

, an American beer brand * GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour *

GB News GB News is a British free-to-air television and radio news channel. The channel is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet. Since 4 January 2022, an audio simulcast of the station is available on DAB+ ...

, a British television news channel

Science and technology

Computing and electronics

* Gigabit (Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity * Gigabyte (GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity * Gain–bandwidth product, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth *

Game Boy The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. It was designed by the same t ...

, a handheld video game console *

Guobiao standards The National Standards of the People's Republic of China (), coded as , are the standards issued by the Standardization Administration of China under the authorization of Article 10 of the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China. A ...

, Chinese National Standards **

GB 2312 is a key official character set of the People's Republic of China, used for Simplified Chinese characters. GB2312 is the registered internet name for EUC-CN, which is its usual encoded form. ''GB'' refers to the Guobiao standards (国家标准 ...

, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters **

GB 18030 GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as ''Information Technology — Chinese coded character set'' and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China. GB18030 is the registered Internet n ...

, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters

Military technology

Beechcraft GB Traveler The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932. Development At the height of the Great Depression, aircraft ...

, U.S. Navy aircraft *

Steyr GB The Steyr GB is a double-action 9×19mm Parabellum caliber, large-framed semi-automatic pistol employing a gas-delayed blowback action. As such the GB abbreviation stand for ''Gasbremse'' (gas brake). It was designed in 1968, intended as a replac ...

, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun * Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas *

GB-1 } The GB-1, also known as the "Grapefruit bomb" and as XM-108,379th 2000 p.39. was a glide bomb produced by Aeronca Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Intended to allow bombers to release bombs from outside the rang ...

, a World War II American glide bomb

Other uses in science and technology

Ganglion blocker A ganglionic blocker (or ganglioplegic) is a type of medication that inhibits transmission between preganglionic and postganglionic neurons in the autonomic nervous system, often by acting as a nicotinic receptor antagonist. Nicotinic acetylcholin ...

, a medication *

Gigabase A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. They form the building blocks of the DNA double helix and contribute to the folded structure of both DNA ...

(Gb), a unit of length for DNA * Gilbert (unit) (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert *

Government and binding theory A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...

, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky *

Guillain–Barré syndrome Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation or pain oft ...

, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy

Sport

Great Britain at the Olympics Athletes from the United Kingdom, all but three of its Overseas Territories, and the three Crown Dependencies, can compete in the Olympic Games as part of Team GB. Athletes from Northern Ireland (part of the UK) can also choose to compete as ...

, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom * Green Bay Packers, an American football team *

Games behind In most North American sports, the phrase games behind or games back (often abbreviated GB) is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. Example In the below standings fr ...

, a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams

Other uses

Gb (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

, a digraph in the Latin alphabet *

Voiced labial–velar plosive The voiced labial–velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a and pronounced simultaneously. To make this sound, one can say ''go'' but with the lips closed as if one were saying ''Bo''; the lips are t ...

, a consonant sound transcribed as *

G♭ (musical note) G (G-flat; also called Ges or sol bémol) is the seventh semitone of the solfège. It lies a diatonic semitone above F and a chromatic semitone below G, thus being enharmonic to F (F-sharp) or ''fa dièse''. However, in some temperaments, ...

, a semitone **

G-flat major G-flat major (or the key of G-flat) is a major scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has six flats. Its relative minor is E-flat minor (or enharmonically D-sharp minor), and its parallel ...

, a key * Group buy, buying something as a collective *

Gazerbeam The following is a list of fictional characters from the 2004 Walt Disney Pictures, Disney/Pixar Animation Studios, Pixar computer-animated superhero film ''The Incredibles'' and its 2018 sequel ''Incredibles 2''. The Parr Family (The Incredibl ...

, a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film ''The Incredibles''