Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

* Stub (stock), the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out * Stub, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk; see

Pollarding Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. The practice o ...

* Pay stub, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee * Stub period, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon * Stub road, an unused road junction *

Ticket stub A ticket is a voucher that indicates that an individual is entitled to admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, amusement park, or tourist attraction, or has a right to travel on a vehicle, such as with an airline ticket, ...

, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder

Computing and electronics

Stub (distributed computing) {{unreferenced, date=June 2008 A stub in distributed computing is a piece of code that converts parameters passed between client and server during a remote procedure call ( RPC). The main idea of an RPC is to allow a local computer (client) to rem ...

, a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing *

Stub (electronics) In microwave and radio-frequency engineering, a stub or resonant stub is a length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only. The free end of the stub is either left open-circuit, or short-circuited (as is always the ...

, a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines *

Method stub A method stub or simply stub in software development is a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality. A stub may simulate the behavior of existing code (such as a procedure on a remote machine; such methods are often c ...

, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality * Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks * Test stub, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing

People

Given name or nickname

* Stub Brown (1870–1938), American baseball player * Stubb Ross (died 1987), Canadian airline executive * Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, (1931–1995), barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician * Stub Wiberg (1875–1929), Norwegian actor

Surname

Alexander Stubb Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb (born 1 April 1968) is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He rose to politics as a researcher specialized in the affairs of the European Union and was elected to the European ...

(born 1968), Finnish politician *

Ambrosius Stub Ambrosius Christoffersen Stub (May 1705 – 15 July 1758) was a Danish poet. Life Stub was born in Gummerup on the island of Funen, but his exact birth date is unknown. He was baptized at Verninge in Odense on 17 May 1705. The son of a tail ...

(1705–1758), Danish poet * Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player * Jens Stub (1764–1819), Norwegian politician * Sverre Stub (born 1946), Norwegian diplomat

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