DB, dB or db may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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Daily Bugle The ''Daily Bugle'' (at one time ''The DB!'') is a fictional New York City tabloid newspaper appearing as a plot element in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The ''Daily Bugle'' is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe, most ...

'' or ''DB'', a fictional New York City newspaper in Marvel Comics * '' Doing Business Report'', by the World Bank Group *

Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The Dragon Ball (manga), initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was Serial (literature), serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 indi ...

, a Japanese media franchise

Music

* D♭ (musical note) *

DB Records DB Records (stylized as DB RECS) was a record label owned by Danny Beard, active from 1978 to 1997. The label was operated out of the Wax'n'Facts record store in the Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood of Little Five Points. Through the 1980s, the lab ...

, Atlanta, Georgia, US *

The dB's The dB's are an American alternative Rock music, rock and power pop group, who formed in New York City in 1978 and first came to prominence in the early 1980s. Their debut album ''Stands for Decibels'' is acclaimed as one of the great "lost" pow ...

, an American band in the 1980s *

DJ DB DB Burkeman (also known as DJ DB) was a British jungle/drum and bass DJ who moved from London to New York in 1989. He was an early pioneer in rave culture in the U.S., credited as being partly responsible for bringing drum and bass to America. H ...

, a New York–based British DJ

Brands and enterprises

DB (car) Deutsch-Bonnet (DB), is a brand of sports cars created in 1937 by Charles Deutsch and René Bonnet (businessman), René Bonnet and disappeared in 1962. The D.B Coupés, in racing or customer versions, were intensively involved in rallying and on i ...

, a French automobile maker *

Brit Air Brit Air (), short for Brittany Air International, was a regional airline based at Morlaix – Ploujean Airport in Ploujean, Morlaix, Brittany, France, operating scheduled services as an Air France franchise from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airpor ...

(IATA airline code) *

DB Breweries DB Breweries is a New Zealand–based brewing company, owned by Heineken Asia Pacific. Founded in 1930 by Sir Henry Kelliher and W Joseph Coutts, the partners purchased Levers and Co. and the Waitemata Brewery Co. in Ōtāhuhu. Asia Pacific Br ...

, a New Zealand company *

DB Networks DB Networks is a privately held Information Security company founded in the United States The company is headquartered in San Diego, California, and its regional offices are located in Palo Alto, California and Seattle, Washington. In May 2018, ...

, an American information security firm *

Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...

, a German railway company since 1994 *

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. ...

(NYSE symbol), a multinational investment bank headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany *

Deutsche Bundesbahn Deutsche Bundesbahn (, ) or DB () was formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remained the state railway of West Germany u ...

, national railway company of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1994 * Dolderbahn, a rack railway in Zürich, Switzerland

Places

Dâmbovița County Dâmbovița County (; also spelt Dîmbovița) is a county () of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It is a traditional administra ...

(ISO 3166-2:RO code), Romania * DB Draw, a bridge over the Passaic River, US *

Discovery Bay Discovery Bay is a picturesque residential community located on Lantau Island. The 2021 census recorded a population of 19,336 residents in DB, with 55% of them being non-Chinese. DB is home to a significant community compared of expatriates ...

, a residential development in Hong Kong * Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kingsport, Tennessee, US

Science and technology

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

(DB), an organized collection of data on a computer system. * .db, file extension for some database files *

Decibel The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B). It expresses the ratio of two values of a Power, root-power, and field quantities, power or root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale. Two signals whos ...

(dB), acoustics and electronics unit *

Dubnium Dubnium is a synthetic element, synthetic chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Db and atomic number 105. It is highly radioactive: the most stable known isotopes of dubnium, isotope, dubnium-268, has a half-life of about 16 hours. ...

, symbol Db, a chemical element * dyne:bolic, a Linux distribution * dry bulb, a temperature definition *

dry basis Dry basis (also d.b., dry matter basis, DM) is an expression of a calculation in chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects, in which the presence of water (H2O) (and/or other solvents) is neglected for the purposes of the calculation. Wat ...

, a way to measure percentages of components in a chemical composition

Other uses

* ȸ, the db-digraph a ligature of "d" and "b" in African linguistics *

Defensive back In gridiron football, defensive backs (DBs), also called the secondary, are the players on the defensive side of the ball who play farthest back from the line of scrimmage. They are distinguished from the other two sets of defensive players, the ...

, a position in American football and Canadian football *

Defined benefit pension plan Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and a ...

, a scheme for retirement plans *

Double-breasted A double-breasted garment is a coat, jacket, waistcoat, or dress with wide, overlapping front flaps which has on its front two symmetrical columns of buttons; by contrast, a single-breasted item has a narrow overlap and only one column of b ...

, a style of garment with wide, overlapping front flaps *

State Security Directorate (Serbia) The State Security Directorate (; abbr. РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security (; abbr. ДБ / DB), was a security agency within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia tasked with protecting the country ...