LB, lb or lb. may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

L Brands Bath & Body Works, Inc. (formerly known as L Brands, Inc., Limited Brands, Inc. and The Limited, Inc.) is an American specialty retail company based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $7.4 billion in revenue in 2023, and was ...

, an American clothing retailer *

Lane Bryant Lane Bryant Inc. is an American women's apparel and intimates specialty retailer focusing on plus-size clothing. The company began in 1904 with maternity designs created by Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin. Lane Bryant, Inc., is the largest pl ...

, a plus-size clothing retailer * Laurier Brantford, a satellite campus of Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario, Canada *

Movement for Unification The Movement for Unification (, ''LB'') is a political party in Kosovo. Its main goal is unification of Kosovo and all other former Yugoslavian territories populated by Albanians to Albania. Its leader is Avni Klinaku, known as co-founder of for ...

(), a nationalist Albanian political party in Kosovo *

Ljubljanska banka Ljubljanska Banka () was a bank in Yugoslavia, named after and based in Ljubljana and founded in 1955. In the aftermath of the independence of Slovenia in 1991, it encountered financial distress. It was liquidated in 1994 and its operations were ...

, a bank named after and based in Ljubljana, Slovenia that operated in SFR Yugoslavia * airline (IATA code) * LB.ua (''Left Bank'' (online edition), a Ukrainian online newspaper

Places

Labrador Labrador () is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the primarily continental portion of the province and constitutes 71% of the province's area but is home to only 6% of its populatio ...

(former postal abbreviation) *

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) *

Long Beach, California Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the list of United States cities by population, 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 451,307 as of 2022. A charter ci ...

Los Baños, Laguna Los Baños (IPA: Help:IPA/Tagalog, ɔs bɐˈɲɔs, officially the Municipality of Los Baños (), colloquially 'elbi' or simply LB, is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Laguna (province ...

(an abbreviation commonly used to address the town of Los Baños)

Science and technology

Mathematics and computing

* .lb, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Lebanon *

Lattice Boltzmann methods The lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM), originated from the lattice gas automata (LGA) method (Hardy- Pomeau-Pazzis and Frisch- Hasslacher- Pomeau models), is a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation. Instead of s ...

, a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation *

Liberty BASIC Liberty BASIC (LB) is a commercial computer programming language and integrated development environment (IDE). It has an BASIC interpreter, interpreter, developed in Smalltalk, which recognizes its own Programming language#Dialects, flavors and ...

, a programming language *

Binary logarithm In mathematics, the binary logarithm () is the exponentiation, power to which the number must be exponentiation, raised to obtain the value . That is, for any real number , :x=\log_2 n \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad 2^x=n. For example, th ...

, *

Lower bound In mathematics, particularly in order theory, an upper bound or majorant of a subset of some preordered set is an element of that is every element of . Dually, a lower bound or minorant of is defined to be an element of that is less th ...

, a mathematical concept in order theory

Units of measurement

Pound (mass) The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is leg ...

, abbreviation derived from Latin ''libra'' *

Pound-force The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf,) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system. Pound-force should not be confused with poun ...

Other uses in science and technology

*L-shaped

electrical conduit An electrical conduit is a tube used to protect and route electrical wiring in a building or structure. Electrical conduit may be made of metal, plastic, fiber, or fired clay. Most conduit is rigid, but flexible conduit is used for some purp ...

body with the outlet in the Back ("LB") *

Lysogeny broth Lysogeny broth (LB) is a Nutrient, nutritionally rich Growth medium, medium primarily used for the Bacterial growth, growth of bacteria. Its creator, Giuseppe Bertani, intended LB to stand for lysogeny broth, but LB has also come to colloquially ...

(also known as Luria or Luria-Bertani broth), a microbial growth medium

Sport

Left back In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categ ...

, a defensive position in Association football *

Linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and typically line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and so back up the defensive linemen. They play closer to the line ...

, a position in American and Canadian football *

Leg bye In cricket, a "leg bye" is a type of extra, a run scored by the batting team without the batsman hitting the ball. Law 23 of the Laws of Cricket specifies that one be scored when the ball is not hit with the bat, but it hits the batsman's body o ...

, in cricket, a run scored by the batting team without the batsman hitting the ball

Other uses

LB (car ferries) LB was a car and lorry ferry line that operated between 1955 and 1981 on the Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry route between Helsingør, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden. Prior to their introduction, DSB was the only operator on this route from 188 ...

, one of several ferries on the HH Ferry route between Elsinore, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden *

Luxembourgish language Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. The language is standardized and officiall ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code) *

Letterboxing (filming) Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. The resulting video-graphic image has mattes of empty space above and belo ...

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