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AB may refer to:

Ab

Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), the Egyptian concept of the heart-soul
Abdominal muscles (abbreviated Ab), which are the rectus abdominis or the stomach muscles
Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation," similar to AG, Ltd or Inc, as used in Finland
Antibody, a medical abbreviation
Av, a month in the Hebrew calendar
The category of abelian groups
A-flat (disambiguation) ("A"), the musical note, scale, or key

aB

aussieBum (an Australian men's swimwear and underwear manufacturer)

ab

Ab (Semitic), Semitic for "father"
Abkhaz language (ISO 639 language code)
ApacheBench, command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
Indo-European for "water", see ap (water)

AB or A-B

Locations, places, and types of places

Aberdeen, after which the UK postal area AB is named
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, commonly abbreviated as AB
Albania (WMO country code)
Alberta (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
Alba County, county in Romania in the ISO 3166-2:RO code
Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
Ancienne Belgique, Belgian concert hall located in Brussels
Anime Boston, an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts

Companies, universities, and organizations, groups (and related)

Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
Air Berlin, IATA code
AB Airlines, a defunct British airline
Activision Blizzard, a video game developer and publisher
Anheuser-Busch, the world's third largest brewing company
Allen-Bradley, manufacturer of industrial control and automation products
AllianceBernstein, a US based asset management firm
Alderson-Broaddus College, a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
Appellate Body, a division of the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO
Applied Biosystems, a US-based biotechnology firm
Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts, often abbreviated A.B. (same degree as B.A.)
Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
Afrikaner Broederbond, the South African secret society from 1918-1994

Medicine, science, technology, and math

One of the human blood types in the ABO blood group system
AB Class amplifier
Aharonov–Bohm effect arising in a certain experiment of quantum mechanics
Abscesses caused by injections, especially heroin injection
Antibody
Aurora Borealis
Beta amyloid

Sports

At Bat, baseball statistic
Andris Biedriņš, basketball player
Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
AB is the nickname of legendary Australian cricketer Allan Border
Atlanta Braves, an MLB Baseball team
AB de Villiers, South African middle order batsman

Terms for people

"Able-bodied", as used by some members of the disabled community
Able Seaman (occupation), a civilian occupation
Able Seaman (rank), a naval rank
Adult Baby, one who engages in infantilism.
Airman Basic, the lowest rank in the United States Air Force
Good Eats host Alton Brown's nickname

Culture, food and history

Aitareya Brahmana
Address book
Aryan Brotherhood, a white prison gang
German AB-Aktion operation in Poland, AB-Aktion for short, the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II

Miscellanea

Assembly Bill
NZR AB class, a locomotive class operated by the New Zealand Railways Department

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "AB" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, Danish, German, French, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Esperanto: Ab, Lithuanian: AB (reikšmės), Norwegian (Nynorsk): Ab, Ripuarian: AB (Watt ėßß datt?), Russian: АВ, Slovak: Ab, Finnish: Ab, Turkish: AB (anlam ayrımı).


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