AB

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AB, A-B, Ab, or ab can each refer to several things.

Contents 1 Ab 2 ab 3 AB or A-B 3.1 Locations, places, and types of places 3.2 Companies, universities, and organizations, groups (and related) 3.3 Medicine, science, technology, and math 3.4 Sports 3.5 Terms for people 3.6 Culture, food and history 3.7 Other meanings

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Ab may mean:

• Ab is a Dutch name.
• A^B class, a locomotive class operated by the New Zealand Railways Department
• 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 (month), a month in the Hebrew calendar
• Abbot, in the Christian Church; when the term Ab. follows the name of a Christian saint it denotes that the saint was an Abbot.
• Category of abelian groups

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ab may mean:

• Abkhazian language (ISO 639 language code)
• ab The ApacheBench command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
• Canada's subdomain for Alberta
• Semitic for "father", see Ab (father)
• Indo-European for "water", see ap (water).
• As a prefix, ab- may mean off, away from, or absolute

[edit] AB or A-B

AB or A-B may mean:

[edit] 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)
• Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
• Ancienne Belgique, Belgian concert hall located in Brussels

[edit] 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
• Anheuser-Busch, the world's third largest brewing company
• Allen-Bradley, manufacturer of industrial control and automation products
• Alderson-Broaddus College, a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
• Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
• Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts, often abbreviated A.B.
• Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
• Afrikaner Broederbond, the South African secret society from 1918-1994

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, a MLB Baseball team

[edit] 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.
• Bachelor of Arts
• Good Eats host Alton Brown's nickname

[edit] Culture, food and history

• Aitareya Brahmana
• AB-Aktion, short for Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II
• An A-B conversation, the subject of a popular euphemism
• AB (food), a takeaway meal popular in Adelaide
• Address book

[edit] Other meanings

• Assembly Bill

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