KB, kB or kb may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

Banks

* KB Kookmin Bank, South Korea * Kaupthing Bank, Iceland * Komerční banka, Czech Republic *

Kasikornbank Kasikornbank ( th, ธนาคารกสิกรไทย, , Teochew: Khai-thài Ngîng-hâng, , stylised in all caps), often stylised as KBank and formerly known as the Thai Farmers Bank is a banking group in Thailand. KBank was establish ...

, Thailand * Karafarin Bank, Iran

Libraries

* National Library of Sweden ( sv, links=no, Kungliga biblioteket) * National Library of the Netherlands ( nl, links=no, Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

Sport

* Kalix BF, a Swedish bandy club * Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, a sports club, Copenhagen, Denmark

Other businesses and organizations

* KB Home, a US house builder * KB Lager, Australia * KB Toys, US * K&B, a New Orleans, Louisiana, US drugstore * Druk Air (IATA code: ''KB''), Bhutan airline

People

* Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer) (born 1947) * KB (rapper) (born 1988), Kevin Elijah Burgess * KB Killa Beats (born 1983), Zambian record producer

Science and technology

Biology

Kilo-base pair 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 D ...

(kb or kbp), length of D/RNA molecule

Computing

* Kilobit (kb), 1,000 bits * Kilobyte (kB), 1,000 bytes * Knowledge base ** Microsoft Knowledge Base ID prefix

Vehicles

* KB series, International Harvester trucks * Isuzu Faster or KB, a pickup truck ** Isuzu D-Max or KB, a pickup truck * NZR K^B class, a New Zealand steam locomotive

Other uses in science and technology

Boltzmann constant The Boltzmann constant ( or ) is the proportionality factor that relates the average relative kinetic energy of particles in a gas with the thermodynamic temperature of the gas. It occurs in the definitions of the kelvin and the gas consta ...

, ''k'' or ''k''_B * Base dissociation constant ''K''_b * Ebullioscopic constant K_b, relating molality to boiling point elevation * Kauri-butanol value Kb, a measure of solvent performance

Other uses

* King's Buildings, a University of Edinburgh campus * Knowledge Bowl, a quiz competition * Former Knight Companion of the

Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as ...

* Kuala Belait, a town in Brunei * WWKB, or KB Radio 1520 * A slang name for marijuana {{disambiguation