Stub or Stubb may refer to:
Shortened objects and entities
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Stub (electronics)
In microwave and radio-frequency engineering, a stub or resonant stub is a length of transmission line or waveg