Gib or GIB may refer to:

Places

Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...

, British overseas territory **

Gibraltar International Airport Gibraltar International Airport, previously known as North Front Airport, is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The runway and aerodrome is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and operated by the Ro ...

, IATA code GIB **

Gibraltar national football team The Gibraltar national football team represents Gibraltar in men's international football competitions, and is controlled by the Gibraltar Football Association. Gibraltar applied for full Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) membersh ...

, FIFA code GIB *

Mount Gibraltar Mount Gibraltar ( Aboriginal: ''Bowrell'') is a mountain with an elevation of that is located in the Southern Highlands region, between Bowral and Mittagong, in New South Wales, Australia. Further west is . Location and features The moun ...

, known as The Gib, New South Wales, Australia * Gibsonia, PA USA (15044), aka The GIB

Business and organisations

UK Green Investment Bank Green Investment Group Limited (GIG), formerly the UK Green Investment Bank, is a specialist in green infrastructure principal investment, project delivery and the management of portfolio assets and related services. It is owned by the Macquarie ...

, a British financial institution *

Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) is an independent, not-for-profit foundation under Switzerland, Swiss law active in the field of Green infrastructure, sustainable urban infrastructure. The CEO of GIB is Louis Downing. Activities GIB ...

, a Swiss independent, not-for-profit foundation

Science and technology

Gibibyte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable un ...

, GiB, a multiple 2³⁰ of the unit byte *

Gibibit 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 ...

, Gib, a multiple 2³⁰ of the unit bit *

GPS intelligent buoys GPS sonobuoy or GPS intelligent buoy (GIB) are a type of inverted long-baseline (LBL) acoustic positioning devices where the transducers are installed on GPS-equipped sonobuoys that are either drifting or moored. GIBs may be used in conjunctio ...

, acoustic positioning devices * Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer, 1998 world champion in

computer bridge Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software. After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th century the field of computer bridge has made major advances. In 1996 the American Contract Bridg ...

* Gib, an obsolete spelling of

jib A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its forward corner (tack) is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bows, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast. Jibs and spinnakers are the two main ty ...

, a horizontal beam used in many cranes *

Gib and cotter A cotter is a pin or wedge with a flat bearing surface passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning,. but in the U.S. it means a split pin. Typical applications are in fixing a crank to i ...

, a wedge used with a cotter pin

Other uses

* Gibs (video gaming), fragments of a destroyed video game character * Gib, a neutered male

ferret The ferret (''Mustela furo'') is a small, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae. The ferret is most likely a domesticated form of the wild European polecat (''Mustela putorius''), as evidenced by the ferret's ability to inter ...

* Gibanawa language, ISO 639-3 code gib, a form of

Hausa language Hausa (; / ; Hausa Ajami, Ajami: ) is a Chadic language spoken primarily by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coas ...

* Gib series of books by

Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 7, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: '' The Egypt Game'', '' The Headless Cupid'' and '' The Witches of ...

* AnEsonGib, British youtuber *

Gib Mihăescu Gib I. Mihăescu (; born Gheorghe I. Mihăescu; April 23, 1894 – October 19, 1935) was a Romanian prose writer and playwright. Born in Drăgășani, his parents were Ion Mihăescu-Stegaru, a lawyer, and his wife Ioana (''née'' Ceaușescu). He ...

, Romanian writer

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