KB, kB or kb may stand for:
Businesses and organizations
Banks
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KB Kookmin Bank
Goyang KB Kookmin Bank FC, Kookmin Bank (), also known as KB Kookmin Bank, is a bank headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It was the largest bank in Korea and the 60th largest in the world as of 2017. The name Kookmin Bank is a contraction of Citi ...
, South Korea
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Kaupthing Bank
Kaupthing Bank (, ) was a major international Icelandic bank, headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was taken over by the Icelandic government during the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and the domestic Icelandic-based operations were ...
, Iceland
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Komerční banka, Czech Republic
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Kasikornbank, Thailand
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Karafarin Bank, Iran
Libraries
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National Library of Sweden ()
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National Library of the Netherlands ()
Sport
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Kalix BF, a Swedish bandy club
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Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, a sports club, Copenhagen, Denmark
Other businesses and organizations
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KB Home, a US house builder
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KB Lager, Australia
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KB Toys, US
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K&B, a New Orleans, Louisiana, US drugstore
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Druk Air (IATA code: ''KB''), Bhutan airline
Entertainment
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Kick Buttowski, an American animated series and titular character
People
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Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer) (born 1947)
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KB (rapper) (born 1988), Kevin Elijah Burgess
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KB Killa Beats (born 1983), Zambian record producer
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Kobe Bryant (1978–2020), American basketball player
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Kyle Busch (born 1985), American stock car driver
Science and technology
Biology
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Kilo-base pair (kb or kbp), length of D/RNA molecule
Computing
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Kilobit (kb), 1,000 bits
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Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for Computer data storage, digital information.
The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix ''kilo-, kilo'' as a multiplication factor of 1000 (103); therefore, one kilobyte is 1000&nbs ...
(kB), 1,000 bytes
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Knowledge base
In computer science, a knowledge base (KB) is a set of sentences, each sentence given in a knowledge representation language, with interfaces to tell new sentences and to ask questions about what is known, where either of these interfaces migh ...
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Microsoft Knowledge Base ID prefix
Vehicles
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KB series, International Harvester trucks
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Isuzu Faster or KB, a pickup truck
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Isuzu D-Max or KB, a pickup truck
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NZR KB class, a New Zealand steam locomotive
Other uses in science and technology
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Boltzmann constant
The Boltzmann constant ( or ) is the proportionality factor that relates the average relative thermal energy of particles in a ideal gas, gas with the thermodynamic temperature of the gas. It occurs in the definitions of the kelvin (K) and the ...
, ''k'' or ''k''
B
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Base dissociation constant ''K''
b
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Ebullioscopic constant K
b, relating molality to boiling point elevation
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Kauri-butanol value Kb, a measure of solvent performance
Other uses
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King's Buildings, a University of Edinburgh campus
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Knowledge Bowl, a quiz competition
* Former Knight Companion of the
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I of Great Britain, George I on 18 May 1725. Recipients of the Order are usually senior British Armed Forces, military officers or senior Civil Service ...
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Kuala Belait, a town in Brunei
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Kota Bharu
Kota Bharu ( Kelantanese: ''Koto Baghu''), colloquially referred to as KB, is a town in Malaysia that serves as the state capital and royal seat of Kelantan. It is situated in the northeastern part of Peninsular Malaysia and lies near the mout ...
, a city in Kelantan, Malaysia
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WWKB
WWKB (1520 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Buffalo, New York. It broadcasts a sports gambling format and is one of two sports radio stations owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. in the Buffalo market. WWKB's Buffalo sister station WGR pri ...
, or KB Radio 1520
* A
slang name for marijuana
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