SB or Sb may refer to:

Places

United States

San Bernardino, California San Bernardino ( ) is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census, making it the List of ...

, a city *

Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara (, meaning ) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting A ...

, a city *

South Burlington, Vermont South Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. Along with neighboring Burlington, it is a principal city of the Burlington metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 20,292, making it the sec ...

, a city

Elsewhere

Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( ), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, located near the Canada, Canadian prov ...

, a territory of France (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code SB) *

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

, a country (ISO 3166 country code SB) *

Sibiu County Sibiu County () is a county () of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Its county seat () is the namesake town of Sibiu (). Name In Hungarian, it is known as ''Szeben megye'', and in German as ''Kreis Hermannstadt''. Under the ...

, a county in Romania

Organisations

Special Branch Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence in Policing in the United Kingdom, British, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, ...

, of UK and some Commonwealth police *

Służba Bezpieczeństwa The Security Service (; ), in full Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and commonly known as SB, was a secret police force established in the Polish People's Republic in 1956 as a successor to the Ministry of Public Security (P ...

, secret police in communist Poland *

Sluzhba Bezpeky Sluzhba Bezpeky or SB OUN, (in Ukrainian: Служба безпеки ОУН (б), СБ ОУН) was the Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service, and a division of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists responsible for clandestine o ...

, WWII Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service *

Shaw Brothers Studio Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited () was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011. In 1925, three Shaw brothers— Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shang ...

, a Hong Kong movie company *

Statistics Bureau (Japan) The is the statistical agency of Japan, subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). The SBJ have conducted the Population Census and large-scale surveys to establish key official statistics of Japan. It is also in ...

Šiaulių bankas Šiaulių bankas is a major commercial bank in Lithuania providing retail and commercial banking services. It has been designated in 2019 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is dir ...

, a Lithuanian commercial bank * Sarvajana Balaya, Sri Lankan political alliance

Science and technology

* SB buffer, for electrophoresis *

Antimony Antimony is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Sb () and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient t ...

, symbol Sb, a chemical element *

Barred spiral galaxy A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. Bars are found in about two thirds of all spiral galaxies in the local universe, and generally affect both the motions of stars and interstellar gas ...

, in astronomy *

Scientiæ Baccalaureus A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

or Bachelor of Science, an academic degree *

Spectroscopic binary A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night sky that are seen as a single object to the naked eye are often resolved as separate stars us ...

stars, designated SB1 and SB2 *

Stilb (unit) The stilb (sb) is the CGS unit of luminance for objects that are not self-luminous. It is equal to one candela per square centimeter or 104 nits (candelas per square meter). The name was coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920. I ...

(symbol sb), a unit of luminance *

sideband In radio communications, a sideband is a band of frequencies higher than or lower than the carrier frequency, that are the result of the modulation process. The sidebands carry the information transmitted by the radio signal. The sidebands c ...

Spina bifida Spina bifida (SB; ; Latin for 'split spine') is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the vertebral column, spine and the meninges, membranes around the spinal cord during embryonic development, early development in pregnancy. T ...

Computing

* .sb file, the file format for Scratch Projects ** .sb2 file and .sb3, the file formats for Scratch 2 and 3 * .sb, Internet country code top-level domain for Solomon Islands * , Store Byte, an RISC-V instruction

Sport and games

Nike SB Nike Skateboarding, primarily known as Nike SB, is the Nike brand for its line of shoes, clothing, and equipment for skateboarding. Nike Skateboarding won the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Home/Welcome Page in the category Web. His ...

, skateboarding shoes * "Season's Best", an athletics abbreviation *

Stolen base In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner. The umpires determine whether the runner is safe or out ...

, in baseball * Sonneborn–Berger score, a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments * Sundby Boldklub, a football club in Denmark * The

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual History of the NFL championship, league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 NFL season, 1966 (with the excep ...

Transportation

* Aircalin (IATA airline code) * Sailing barge (

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/na ...

) * Skagensbanen (''the Skagen Railway''), a Danish railway line and company * South Buffalo Railway (reporting code) * Surabaya Kota railway station, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (station code: SB) *

Suroboyo Bus Suroboyo Bus, simplify SB is a city Bus rapid transit system in Surabaya, Indonesia. Suroboyo Bus was launched on 7 April 2018 under the former mayor Tri Rismaharini. It is one of two bus transit systems in the city, the other being Trans Semanggi ...

in Surabaya, Indonesia *

Tupolev SB The Tupolev ANT-40, also known by its service name Tupolev SB ( – ''Skorostnoi Bombardirovschik'' – high speed bomber) and development co-name TsAGI-40, was a high speed twin-engined three-seat monoplane bomber, first flown in 1934. The Tup ...

, a Soviet bomber of World War II *

Toyota SB The SA was Toyota's first new passenger car design (as opposed to updating the AA) after World War II. It was the first in a family of vehicles before the introduction of the Crown. A series of light trucks also shared the chassis and major com ...

, car * SB craft, an Imperial Japanese Army variant of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ''No. 101''-class landing ship

Other uses

* Special Warfare Boat Operator rating, US Navy *

Senate Bill A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to substantially alter an existing law. A bill does not become law until it has been passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. Bills are introduced in the leg ...

, typically coded like "SB 1234" * ''

Sonderbehandlung (, "special treatment") is any sort of preferential treatment. However, the word ''Sonderbehandlung'' was used as a euphemism for mass murder by Nazi functionaries and the SS, who commonly used the abbreviation ''S.B.'' in documentation. It f ...

'', German Nazi era euphemism for mass murder *

Soldier Boy Soldier Boy is the name of three superhero characters in the comic book series ''Herogasm'' and '' The Boys'', created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The first character introduced (but the third Soldier Boy in the timeline, with his two ...

, three fictional superheroes *

Substantive In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence.Example ...

, or noun, in some languages * Swagbucks, a rewards company by Prodege *

Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational List of coffeehouse chains, chain of coffeehouses and Starbucks Reserve, roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gor ...

, a coffee company

Saint

* St. Bonaventure {{disambiguation