GB, or Gb may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

(ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe **

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...

, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe **

Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain, also known as the Kingdom of Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the Kingd ...

(1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom *

Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan (; ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative units of Pakistan, administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has b ...

, a region in northern Pakistan *

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

, a sovereign state in West Africa *

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located at the head of Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the F ...

, United States *

Great Barrington, Massachusetts Great Barrington is a New England town, town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,172 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Bot ...

, United States

Businesses and organisations

GB Airways GB Airways was a British airline; prior to its sale, it was headquartered in ' The Beehive', a former terminal building, at City Place Gatwick, London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was originally created as ...

, a British airline *

Gardner Bender Gardner Bender is a manufacturer of professional electricians' tools and supplies. The company has a long history, starting as the brainchild of Jim Gardner, a master mechanic in a Milwaukee Milwaukee is the List of cities in Wisconsin, most ...

, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies *

Girls' Brigade The Girls' Brigade is an international, interdenominational Christian youth organisation founded in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. The modern Brigade was formed as the result of the consolidation of three organisations: The Queen Mother and Princ ...

, a Christian organization for girls *

Grande Bibliothèque The Grande Bibliothèque () is a public library in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of (BAnQ), Quebec's national library. Membership in the library is free to all residents of Quebec. It has some 10,000 users per day ...

, a large public library in Montreal *

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay The University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UW–Green Bay, UWGB, or Green Bay) is a public university in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1965, it is part of the University of Wisconsin System. As of fall 2024, student enrollment h ...

, an American university *

ABX Air ABX Air, Inc., formerly Airborne Express, is a cargo airline headquartered at Wilmington Air Park near the City of Wilmington, Ohio, US. ABX Air operates scheduled, ad hoc charter and ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) freight se ...

(IATA airline designator GB), a cargo airline *

GB Glace GB Glace (originally Glace-Bolaget until 1991) is the largest ice cream company in Sweden. It was founded in 1942 and after they had become a partner in 1973, was eventually fully purchased by the British company Unilever in 1996. History ...

, a Swedish ice cream company *

Griesedieck Brothers beer Griesedieck Brothers Beer is a historic St. Louis beer brand that has been reintroduced after years of absence. The Griesedieck family once owned three St. Louis-area breweries, Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. in B ...

, an American beer brand *

GB Supermarkets GB (''Grand Bazar'') was a Belgian supermarket chain, until 2000 owned by the GIB Group when it was taken over by the Carrefour Group. History In 1958 the first Super GB is created and opened. In 1961 the first GB hypermarkets, the first ...

, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour *

GB News GB News is a British free-to-air, editorial, opinion-orientated television and radio news channel. The channel is available on Freeview (UK), Freeview, Freesat, Sky UK, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus, LG web ...

, a British television news channel

Science and technology

Computing and electronics

Gigabit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as ...

(Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity *

Gigabyte The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The SI prefix, prefix ''giga-, giga'' means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte i ...

(GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity *

Gain–bandwidth product The gain–bandwidth product (designated as GBWP, GBW, GBP, or GB) for an amplifier is a figure of merit calculated by multiplying the amplifier's bandwidth and the gain at which the bandwidth is measured. For devices such as operational amplif ...

, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth *

Game Boy The is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards. Following the success of the Game & Watch single-ga ...

, a handheld video game console *

Guobiao standards The National Standards of the People's Republic of China (), coded as , are the standards issued by the Standardization Administration of China under the authorization of Article 10 of the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China. ...

, Chinese National Standards **

GB 2312 is a key official character set of the People's Republic of China, used for Simplified Chinese characters. GB2312 is the registered internet name for EUC-CN, which is its usual encoded form. ''GB'' refers to the Guobiao standards (国家标准), ...

, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters; also has partial support for Traditional, and some other languages, though in practice web browser support it as (i.e. with full support): **

GB 18030 GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as ''Information Technology — Chinese coded character set'' and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China. GB18030 is the registered Internet n ...

, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters, but with full support for Traditional, and all languages Unicode supports, since it's a full Unicode Transformation Format

Military technology

Beechcraft GB Traveler The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932, and was sold on the civilian market, being used for transport ...

, U.S. Navy aircraft *

Steyr GB The Steyr GB is a double-action 9×19mm Parabellum caliber, large-framed semi-automatic pistol employing a gas-delayed blowback action. As such the GB abbreviation stands for ''Gasbremse'' (gas brake). It was designed in 1968, intended as a repla ...

, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun *

Sarin Sarin (NATO designation GB nerve_agent#G-series.html" ;"title="hort for nerve agent#G-series">G-series, "B" is an extremely toxic organophosphorus compound.GB-1 } The GB-1, also known as the "Grapefruit bomb" and as XM-108,379th 2000 p.39. was a glide bomb produced by Aeronca Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Intended to allow bombers to release bombs from outside the ra ...

, a World War II American glide bomb *

GB PGB Tian Ge (), abbreviated as TG or GB, is a series of precision-guided munitions (PGM) developed by Harbin Jiancheng Group, a subsidiary of China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco). Development Background The Chinese development of the pr ...

, a series of Chinese precision guided bombs

Other uses in science and technology

Ganglion blocker A ganglionic blocker (or ganglioplegic) is a type of medication that inhibits transmission between preganglionic and postganglionic neurons in the autonomic nervous system, often by acting as a nicotinic receptor antagonist. Nicotinic acetylcholi ...

, a medication *

Gigabase A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. They form the building blocks of the DNA double helix and contribute to the folded structure of both DNA ...

(Gb), a unit of length for DNA *

Gilbert (unit) The gilbert (symbol: Gb) is a unit used in practical cgs and CGS-EMU systems to measure magnetomotive force. The unit is named for English physicist William Gilbert. Definition: *1 Gb = (1/4π) Bi- t Conversion to the correspondin ...

(Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert *

Government and binding theory Government and binding (GB, GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s. This theory is a radical revision of his earlier theories and was ...

, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky *

Guillain–Barré syndrome Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset Paralysis, muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation ...

, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy

Sport

Great Britain at the Olympics The United Kingdom has been represented at every modern Olympic Games. By end of the 2024 Summer Olympics, it is third in the All-time Olympic Games medal table, all-time Summer Olympic medal table by overall number of medals, and fourth in number ...

, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom *

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. They ar ...

, an American football team *

Games behind In some North American sports, the phrase games behind or games back (often abbreviated GB) refers to a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. Example In the standings ...

, a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams

People

GB (footballer) Gabriel Souza da Silva (born 5 January 2005), known as Gabriel or simply GB, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Vasco da Gama. Club career Early career Born in Rio de Janeiro, GB started playing futsal with local side River d ...

, (full name Gabriel Souza da Silva), Brazilian association footballer *

Guy Bomford Brigadier Guy Bomford (28 June 1899 – 10 February 1996; also published as G. Bomford or simply G.B.) was a British geodesist who, at various times in his career, worked for both the Survey of India and the Corps of Royal Engineers. He is best ...

, who also published as G.B.

Other uses

* Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet *

Voiced labial–velar plosive The voiced labial–velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a and pronounced simultaneously and is considered a double articulation.: To make this sound, one can say ''go'' but with the lips closed ...

, a consonant sound transcribed as * G♭ (musical note), a semitone **

G-flat major G-flat major is a major scale based on G♭ (musical note), G, consisting of the pitches G, A♭ (musical note), A, B♭ (musical note), B, C♭ (musical note), C, D♭ (musical note), D, E♭ (musical note), E, and F (musical note), F. Its key si ...

, a key *

Group buy A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Groups of people * Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural identity * Ethnic group, a group whose members share the same ethnic iden ...

, buying something as a collective * Gazerbeam, a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film ''The Incredibles'' * ''

Goin' Bulilit ''Goin (; abbreviated as ''GB'') is a Philippine television sketch comedy show broadcast by ABS-CBN and Kapamilya Channel. Directed by Edgar S. Mortiz, Badjie S. Mortiz and Frasco S. Mortiz, it aired on ABS-CBN's Yes Weekend! line up from F ...

'', Philippine television show