Wikipedia / AB
Wikipedia / AB
AB, ab, or similar may refer to:
Arts and media
American Bandstand, a music-performance television show
Analecta Bollandiana, an academic journal on Christian hagiography
Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, Belgium
Business
Businesses
Manufacturing companies
A & B High Performance Firearms, a defunct sporting firearms manufacturer
Allen-Bradley, a brand of industrial control products, manufactured by Rockwell Automation
Anheuser-Busch, a brewing company
Media companies
AB Groupe, a French broadcasting group
Activision Blizzard, an American video game holding company
American Biograph, a former motion picture company
Transportation companies
AB Airlines, a defunct British airline
Air Berlin (former IATA airline code AB), a former airline operating 1978–2017
Appenzell Railways (), abbreviated AB
Bonza (IATA code AB), an Australian airline
Other companies
AB Bank, a commercial bank in Bangladesh
Alderson Broaddus University, formerly Alderson-Broaddus College, a private university in West Virginia, US
Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
AllianceBernstein (New York Stock Exchange Symbol AB), a US-based asset management firm
Business terminology
Akcinė bendrovė, Lithuanian equivalent of an S.A. corporation
Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc.
Linguistics
Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 language code ab), a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people
Ab (cuneiform), a written syllable
Ab (Semitic), a Semitic word for "father"
ab, a Welsh patronymic prefix
Āb, a Persian word, derived from Ap (water), the Vedic Sanskti term for water
Occupations and ranks
Able seaman, a civilian occupation
Able seaman (rank), a naval rank
Airman basic, the lowest rank in the US Air Force
Organizations
Afrikaner Broederbond, a South African secret society from 1918 to 1994
Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
Places
Āb or Anzab-e Olya, a village in Iran
AB postcode area, UK, including Aberdeen, Scotland
AB, the WMO country code of Albania
AB, the postal abbreviation and ISO 3166 suffix for Alberta, a province in Canada
Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
AB, used in vehicle registrations for Aschaffenburg, Germany
AB, used in vehicle registrations for the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Science and technology
Chemistry
Alabamine, a former name of the element astatine
Albite, a feldspar mineral
Ammonia borane, a chemical compound
Antibonding (a.b.), used to describe the character of orbitals in atomic and molecular electronic structure
Medicine
AB blood, a blood type in the ABO blood group system
AB toxin, Type III toxin secreted by some pathogenic bacteria
Antibody (medical abbreviation)
Rectus abdominis muscle (common name abs), a paired stomach muscle
Other uses in science and technology
Aggregate base, a kind of material used in construction
AB Class amplifier, a classification of electric amplifier
Category of abelian groups (Ab), in mathematics
ApacheBench, a command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
Religion
Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), a concept in ancient Egyptian religion
Pirkei Avot (), a compilation from the Mishnaic period (abbreviation "Ab.")
Aitareya Brahmana, an ancient Indian collection of hymns
Ab or Av (month), , fifth in the Hebrew calendar, and eleventh in the Tishri-years
Ab () or Aria (month), seventh in the Mandaean calendar
Sport
Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
Argja Bóltfelag, a Faroese association football club
Aviron Bayonnais, French rugby union club
At bat, in baseball statistics
Transportation
NZR Ab class, a New Zealand steam locomotive
Armed boarding steamer, used by the UK during World War I
Crane ship (AB) (US Navy hull classification symbol AB)
People
Ab (given name), a short form of Albert (or occasionally Abraham or Abbott)
AB de Villiers (born 1984), South African middle order batsman and wicket-keeper
Adrien Broner (born 1989), American Boxer, nicknamed AB
Allan Border (born 1955), Australian cricketer, nicknamed A.B.
Antonio Brown (born 1988), American football player, nicknamed AB
Other uses
AB, a South Australian dish similar to a Halal snack pack
Adult baby, a person who practices paraphilic infantilism
Bachelor of Arts (Latin: Artium baccalaureus)
Assembly Bill, a type of legislation in the US
AB (game), a guessing game similar to Mastermind
See also
A-flat (disambiguation) ("A"), the musical note, scale, or key
Amyloid beta (Aβ), peptides of amino acids that are involved in Alzheimer's disease
ΑΒ / αβ / alphabeta (disambiguation)