Gibbs or GIBBS is a surname and acronym. It may refer to:

People

Gibbs (surname) Gibbs (usually pronounced ) is a Scottish surname. It comes from the Gibbs clan in the Scottish Highlands. Notable people with the surname *Alan Gibbs (born 1939), New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector *Alfred Gibbs (1823–1 ...

Places

Gibbs (crater) Gibbs is a lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is situated less than a crater diameter to the northeast of the larger crater Hecataeus. The crater chain Catena Humboldt passes to the south of Gibbs, following a ...

, on the Moon * Gibbs, Missouri, US * Gibbs, Tennessee, US * Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica * 2937 Gibbs, an asteroid * Mount Gibbs

Science

Mathematics and statistics

Gibbs phenomenon In mathematics, the Gibbs phenomenon is the oscillatory behavior of the Fourier series of a piecewise continuously differentiable periodic function around a jump discontinuity. The Nth partial Fourier series of the function (formed by summing ...

Gibbs' inequality 200px, Josiah Willard Gibbs In information theory, Gibbs' inequality is a statement about the information entropy of a discrete probability distribution. Several other bounds on the entropy of probability distributions are derived from Gibbs' ineq ...

Gibbs sampling In statistics, Gibbs sampling or a Gibbs sampler is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for sampling from a specified multivariate distribution, multivariate probability distribution when direct sampling from the joint distribution is dif ...

Physics

* Gibbs phase rule *

Gibbs free energy In thermodynamics, the Gibbs free energy (or Gibbs energy as the recommended name; symbol is a thermodynamic potential that can be used to calculate the maximum amount of Work (thermodynamics), work, other than Work (thermodynamics)#Pressure–v ...

Gibbs entropy The concept entropy was first developed by German physicist Rudolf Clausius in the mid-nineteenth century as a thermodynamic property that predicts that certain spontaneous processes are irreversible or impossible. In statistical mechanics, entrop ...

Gibbs paradox In statistical mechanics, a semi-classical derivation of entropy that does not take into account the Identical particles, indistinguishability of particles yields an expression for entropy which is not extensive variable, extensive (is not proport ...

Gibbs–Helmholtz equation The Gibbs–Helmholtz equation is a thermodynamic equation used to calculate changes in the Gibbs free energy of a system as a function of temperature. It was originally presented in an 1882 paper entitled " Die Thermodynamik chemischer Vorgänge" ...

Gibbs algorithm FILE:Josiah Willard Gibbs -from MMS-.jpg, 200px, Josiah Willard Gibbs In statistical mechanics, the Gibbs algorithm, introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1902, is a criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of mi ...

Gibbs state In probability theory and statistical mechanics, a Gibbs state is an equilibrium probability distribution which remains invariant under future evolution of the system. For example, a stationary or steady-state distribution of a Markov chain, such ...

Gibbs-Marangoni effect The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two phases due to a gradient of the surface tension. In the case of temperature dependence, this phenomenon may be called thermo-capil ...

* Gibbs phenomenon, an MRI artifact

Organisations

Gibbs & Cox Gibbs & Cox is an American naval architecture firm that specializes in designing surface warships. Founded in 1922 in New York City, Gibbs & Cox is now headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm has offices in New York City; Washington, D.C. ...

naval architecture firm * Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School * Gibbs College, several US locations * Gibbs Technologies, developer and manufacturer of amphibious vehicles * Gibbs High School (disambiguation), several schools of this name exist *

Antony Gibbs & Sons Antony Gibbs & Sons was a British trading company, which was founded by Antony Gibbs in 1808 in London. The company's interests spanned trading in cloth, fruit, wine, guano, and nitrate, which led to it becoming involved in banking, shipping an ...

, British trading company, established in London in 1802

Other uses

* Gibbs SR, former name of the toothpaste Mentadent *

Gibbs Stadium Gibbs Stadium is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It opened in 1996 and is home to the Wofford College Terriers football team. It is also formerly the home to the Spartanburg High School varsity football team. ...

, Spartanburg, South Carolina, US