Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

Stub (stock) A stub is the stock representing the remaining equity in a corporation left over after a major cash or security distribution from a buyout, a spin-out, a demerger or some other form of restructuring Restructuring is the corporate management term ...

, 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 ...

Pay stub A paycheck, also spelled paycheque, pay check or pay cheque, is traditionally a paper document (a cheque) issued by an employer to pay an employee for services rendered. In recent times, the physical paycheck has been increasingly replaced by e ...

, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee *

Stub period In finance, in particular with reference to bonds and swaps, a stub period is a length of time over which interest In finance and economics, interest is payment from a borrower or deposit-taking financial institution to a lender or deposi ...

, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon *

Stub road An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed. An unused roadway or ramp may often be referred to as an abandoned road, ghost road, highway to nowhere, stub ramp, g ...

, 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 remot ...

, 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 c ...

, 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 cal ...

, 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 In advanced polymorphism computer science, test stubs are programs that simulate the behaviours of software components (or modules) that a module undergoing tests depends on. Test stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usuall ...

, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing

People

Given name

Stub Wiberg Lauritz Stub Wiberg (11 March 1875 – 24 June 1929) was a Norwegian actor. He made his stage debut at the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene in 1898, and played at Nationaltheatret in Kristiania from 1903. He participated in the film ''Glomdal ...

(1875–1929), Norwegian actor

Nickname

Stub Brown Richard P. "Stub" Brown (August 3, 1870 – March 10, 1948) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1893 to 1897, for the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. He stood at 6' 2" and weighed 220 lbs.

(1870–1938), American baseball player *

Stubb Ross Walter R. "Stubb" Ross, CM started the now-defunct airline Time Air near Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1966. He married his wife Margaret in 1953 and they had four children, Marjory, Lynn, Rod and Susan. In 1967—the year after Ross started Lethbridge ...

(died 1987), Canadian airline entrepreneur * Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield (1931–1995), American barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician

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), President of Finland, Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015 *

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 t ...

(1705–1758), Danish poet *

Göran Stubb Göran Stubb (born 10 March 1935) is the National Hockey League (NHL) Director of European Scouting. Stubb began working as the chairman of IFK Helsinki from 1961 to 1975 before joining the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 1976 as their Managing ...

(born 1935), Finnish ice hockey executive and the father of Alexander Stubb *

Hans Stubb Hans "Hennes" Stubb (8 October 1906 – 19 March 1973) was a German footballer. Club career He played in defense for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1928 to 1944. International career He also played 10 times for Germany, scoring one goal. Stub ...

(1906–1973), German soccer player *

Jens Stub Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of Veøya and served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. Biography He was the ...

(1764–1819), Norwegian politician *

Suzanne Innes-Stubb Suzanne Elizabeth Innes-Stubb (born 25 January 1970) is a British-Finnish attorney and the wife of Alexander Stubb, President of Finland. She is the first person of overseas origin to become the spouse of the President of Finland. Innes-Stubb ...

(born 1970), British-Finnish attorney and the wife of Alexander Stubb *

Sverre Stub Sverre Stub (born 24 February 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a siv.øk. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He served at the United Nations delegation in Geneva from 1986 to 1990, at the ...

(born 1946), Norwegian diplomat

Other uses

Stub Place Stubb Place is a small settlement in western Cumbria, England. Known by locals in Waberthwaite as marshside, due to the name of the nearby cottages. It lies within the Lake District National Park The Lake District National Park is a national ...

, settlement in Cumbria, England * Stubb, a character in the novel ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville **

Stubb Glacier Stubb Glacier () is 11 nautical miles (20 km) long in Aristotle Mountains on the east coast of Graham Land, flowing east from Mount Sara Teodora into Scar Inlet between Mount Queequeg and Tashtego Point. The lower reaches of this glacier ...

, an Antarctic glacier named for the ''Moby-Dick'' character