PB

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Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element lead. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Paul's Boutique, a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
  • Prussian Blue, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
  • PB, an album by Norwegian musician Per Bergersen

Publications

  • Performance Bikes (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine
  • Playboy, an American men's magazine
  • Post-Bulletin, an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota

Television

  • Princess Bubblegum, a character from the 2010 animated TV series Adventure Time
  • Prison Break, an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
  • Puppy Bowl, an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005

Anime-Manga

Companies and organizations

  • Packard Bell Corporation, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
  • Packard Bell, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
  • Palladium Books, a publisher of role-playing games
  • Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP
  • PBair, a now-defunct Thai airline
  • Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website
  • Piranha Bytes, a German video game developer
  • Pirate Bay, a file-sharing organization
  • Pitney Bowes, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping
  • PocketBook International, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand
  • Pottery Barn, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain
  • ProBoards, an online message board service
  • Prosperity Party (Paartii Badhaadhiinaa), a political party in Ethiopia

Economics and finance

  • Payback period, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment
  • Performance bond, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor
  • Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme
  • Price-to-book ratio, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price
  • Prime brokerage
  • Participatory budgeting, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget

Education

  • Brunei Polytechnic, a post-secondary institution in Brunei
  • Philosophy and Belief, a school subject
  • Project Blogger, an Irish educational initiative
  • Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages

People

  • Panda Bear (musician) (born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective
  • Chris Pontius (born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"

Places

United States

Other countries

Science and technology

Chemistry

  • Lead, symbol Pb, a chemical element
  • Polybutylene, a polymer of the substance butylene

Computing and software

  • Petabit (Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabits used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
  • Petabyte (PB), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabytes which is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
  • PowerBook, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple
  • PowerBuilder, an integrated software development environment
  • PunkBuster, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games

Medicine

Other uses in science and technology

  • PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
  • Picobarn, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics
  • Pipe bomb, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material
  • Push button, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user

Sports

  • Personal Best, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.
  • Paintball, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun
  • Passed ball, in baseball

Transportation

  • Patrol boat, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
  • Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
  • Irizar PB, a bus coach body

Other uses

  • Paperback, a type of book
  • Peanut butter, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
  • Personal best, an individual's best performance in a given sporting discipline.
  • Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods.
  • Post box, a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail.
  • Powerball, an American lottery game
  • Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
  • Pro bono, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service

See also

  • BP (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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