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 Gibbs is a village in Wilson Township, Adair County, Missouri, Wilson Township, Adair County, Missouri, Adair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 107 at the 2010 census. History The town of Gibbs was an outgrowth of the Santa ...

, US * Gibbs, Tennessee, US * Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica *

2937 Gibbs 2937 Gibbs, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 June 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lo ...

, an asteroid *

Mount Gibbs Mount Gibbs is located in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California, south of Mount Dana. The mountain was named in honor of Oliver Gibbs, a professor at Harvard University and friend of Josiah Whitney. The summit marks the boundary ...

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 An MRI artifact is a visual artifact (an anomaly seen during visual representation) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is a feature appearing in an image that is not present in the original object. Many different artifacts can occur during MRI, ...

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 Katharine Gibbs College was a for-profit institution of higher learning based in the United States, founded by Katharine Gibbs. It was first founded in 1911 as the Providence School in Rhode Island, an institution that focused on the career educ ...

, several US locations *

Gibbs Technologies Alan Timothy Gibbs (born 1939) is a New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and former public servant. During the 1960s and 1970s, Gibbs was involved in manufacturing and investment banking, before overseeing the corporatisation of New Zeal ...

, developer and manufacturer of amphibious vehicles *

Gibbs High School (disambiguation) Gibbs High School may refer to: * Gibbs High School, Kumta, India * Gibbs High School (St. Petersburg, Florida), in the Pinellas County school district * Gibbs High School (Corryton, Tennessee), in the Knox County school district {{schooldis ...

, 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 Mentadent is a brand name for a line of dental products manufactured by Unilever for its home and international markets excluding the United States and Canada where the company sold its rights to the brand to Church & Dwight Company in 2003. In 2 ...

, 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