Band or BAND may refer to:

Places

Bánd Bánd is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to ...

, a village in Hungary *

Band, Iran Band ( fa, بند; also known as Darband) is a Kurdish village in Baranduz Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,888, in 872 families. References ...

, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania *

Band-e Majid Khan Band-e Majid Khan ( fa, بندمجيدخان, also Romanized as Band-e Majīd Khān; also known as Band) is a village in Akhtachi-ye Mahali Rural District, Simmineh District, Bukan County Bukan County ( fa, شهرستان بوکان) is locate ...

, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

People

* Band (surname), various people with the surname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Musical ensemble A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists ...

, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music **

Band (rock and pop) A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre. A four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music. In the early years, the configuration was typically two gui ...

, a small ensemble that plays rock or pop **

Concert band A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion fami ...

, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments **

Dansband (; "dance band"), or in Norwegian and Danish, is a Swedish term for a band that plays ("dance band music"). ' is often danced to in pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired ...

, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience **

Jazz band A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands vary in the quantity of its members and the style of jazz that they play but it is common to find a jazz band made up of a rhythm section and a h ...

, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music **

Marching band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, o ...

, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors **

School band A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors (band directors). A school band consists of woodwind instruments, brass ...

, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music * The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group ** ''The Band'' (album), The Band's eponymous 1969 album * "Bands" (song), by American rapper Comethazine *"The Band", a 2002 single by

Mando Diao Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album ''Hurricane Bar''. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. Band members are Björn Di ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

*Band, nickname of Brazilian television network

Rede Bandeirantes Rede Bandeirantes (, ''Bandeirantes Network''), or simply known as Band (), is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It began broadcasting on May 13, 1967 on VHF channel 13 in São Paulo. Its founder was businessman João Saad with t ...

* ''The Band'' (film), a 1978 Israeli film * ''The Band'' (musical), a 2017 musical by Tim Firth with the music of Take That

Clothing, jewelry, and accessories

Armband An armband is a piece of material worn around the arm. They may be worn for pure ornamentation, or to mark the wearer as belonging to group, or as insignia having a certain rank, status, office or role, or being in a particular state or condit ...

or arm band ** Smart band a band with electronic component ***

Microsoft Band Microsoft Band is a discontinued smart band with smartwatch and activity tracker/fitness tracker features, created and developed by Microsoft. It was announced on October 29, 2014. The Microsoft Band incorporates Activity tracker, fitness tracki ...

, a smart band with smartwatch features from the software giant *

Bandolier A bandolier or a bandoleer is a pocketed belt for holding either individual bullets, or belts of ammunition. It is usually slung sash-style over the shoulder and chest, with the ammunition pockets across the midriff and chest. Though functiona ...

or bandoleer, an ammunition belt *

Bands (neckwear) Bands are a form of formal neckwear, worn by some clergy and lawyers, and with some forms of academic dress. They take the form of two oblong pieces of cloth, usually though not invariably white, which are tied to the neck. When worn by clergy, t ...

, two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers *

Belt (clothing) A belt is a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather, plastic, or heavy cloth, worn around the natural waist or near it (as far down as the hips). The ends of a belt are free; and a buckle forms the belt into a loop by securing one en ...

, a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist *

Strap A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of leather or other flexible materials. Thin straps are used as part of clothing or baggage, or bedding such as a sleeping bag. See for example spaghetti strap, ...

, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather *

Wedding band A wedding ring or wedding band is a finger ring that indicates that its wearer is married. It is usually forged from metal, traditionally gold or another precious metal. Rings were used in ancient Rome during marriage, though the modern pra ...

, a metal ring indicating the wearer is married

Military

Bands (Italian Army irregulars) Bands ( it, Bande) was in Italian military term for irregular forces, composed normally of foreigners or natives, with some Italian officers and NCOs in command. These units were employed by the Italian Army as auxiliaries to the regular national ...

, 19th- and 20th-century military units in the service of the Italian "Regio Esercito" *

Female order of the Band The Female order of the Band is a female honorific order founded in 1387, bestowed upon the women of Palencia, in Castile and León (Crown of Castile, current Spain). It was founded by John I of Castile in 1387 in order to honor the memory of th ...

, a medieval military order native to Spain *

Order of the Band The Order of the Band, Knights of the Band, or Equites Bindae, was a military order in Spain, instituted by Alfonso XI, King of Castile in 1332.''The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 6: c. 1300 - c. 1415'', Michael Jones (ed.) (Cambridge, 1 ...

, a medieval military order native to Spain

Science and technology

Band (algebra) In mathematics, a band (also called idempotent semigroup) is a semigroup in which every element is idempotent (in other words equal to its own square). Bands were first studied and named by ; the lattice of varieties of bands was described inde ...

, an idempotent semigroup * Band (order theory), a solid subset of an ordered vector space that contains its supremums *

Band (radio) The radio spectrum is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with frequencies from 0 Hz to 3,000 GHz (3 THz). Electromagnetic waves in this frequency range, called radio waves, are widely used in modern technology, particula ...

, a range of frequencies or wavelengths in radio and radar, specifically: ** Frequency band **

LTE frequency bands Long-Term Evolution (LTE) telecommunications networks use several frequency bands with associated bandwidths. Frequency bands From Tables 5.5-1 "E-UTRA Operating Bands" and 5.6.1-1 "E-UTRA Channel Bandwidth" of the latest published version of ...

used for cellphone data **

Shortwave bands Shortwave bands are frequency allocations for use within the shortwave radio spectrum (the upper medium frequency Fband and all of the high frequency Fband). Radio waves in these frequency ranges can be used for very long distance (transcontinent ...

UMTS frequency bands The UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation (3G) wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks. They were allocated by delegates to the World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC-92) held in Málaga-To ...

used for cellphones *

BAND (software) BAND is a mobile community application that facilitates group communication. Created by Naver Corporation, the service is available on iOS, Android, and desktop. Users can create separate spaces for communicating with members of different grou ...

, a mobile app that facilitates group communication * Band cell, a type of white blood cell *

Bird banding Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight ...

, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification *

Electronic band structure In solid-state physics, the electronic band structure (or simply band structure) of a solid describes the range of energy levels that electrons may have within it, as well as the ranges of energy that they may not have (called '' band gaps'' or ...

of electrons in solid-state physics *

Gastric band A laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, commonly called a lap-band, A band, or LAGB, is an inflatable silicone device placed around the top portion of the stomach to treat obesity, intended to decrease food consumption. Adjustable gastric band ...

, a human weight-control measure *

Signaling (telecommunications) In telecommunication, signaling is the use of signals for controlling communications. This may constitute an information exchange concerning the establishment and control of a telecommunication circuit and the management of the network. Classif ...

: **

In-band signaling In telecommunications, in-band signaling is the sending of control information within the same band or channel used for data such as voice or video. This is in contrast to out-of-band signaling which is sent over a different channel, or even o ...

** Out-of-band *Birds Are Not Dinosaurs, or BAND, a controversial stance on the

origin of birds The scientific question of within which larger group of animals birds evolved has traditionally been called the "origin of birds". The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated ...

Society and government

* Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada *

Band society A band society, sometimes called a camp, or in older usage, a horde, is the simplest form of human society. A band generally consists of a small kin group, no larger than an extended family or clan. The general consensus of modern anthropolo ...

, a small group of humans in a simple form of society *

Tribe (Native American) In the United States, an American Indian tribe, Native American tribe, Alaska Native village, tribal nation, or similar concept is any extant or historical clan, tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Native Americans in the Uni ...

, a tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States

Other uses

Rubber band A rubber band (also known as an elastic band, gum band or lacky band) is a loop of rubber, usually ring or oval shaped, and commonly used to hold multiple objects together. The rubber band was patented in England on March 17, 1845 by Stephen P ...

* The Band (professional wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order