PB
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Pb is the chemical symbol for the element lead.
PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:
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[edit] Companies and organizations
- Packard Bell (1926), an American radio manufacturer founded in 1926 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
- 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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Education
- 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
[edit] Locations
United States:
- Pacific Beach, San Diego, California a neighborhood in San Diego, California
- Palm Bay, Florida
- Pismo Beach, California
Other:
- Paraíba, a state of Brazil
- Port Blair, a town in the Andaman Islands
- Punjab, the name of several locations in South Asia
[edit] People
- Pierce Brosnan (born 1953), an Irish actor and film producer
- 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"
- Prussian Blue, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
[edit] Science and technology
Computers and software:
- Petabit and petabyte, two units of digital information or computer storage
- 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:
- Peripheral blood, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
- Phenobarbital, a barbiturate
Other:
- PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
- Picobarn, a multiple of barn (unit), 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
- Polybutylene, a polymer
[edit] Sports
- Paintball, a sport in which players compete to eliminate opponents by tagging them with dye capsules propelled from a device commonly referred to as a paintball gun
- Passed ball, a baseball term
[edit] Titles
Entertainment:
- Paul's Boutique, a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
- Phantom Brave, a 2004 tactical role-playing video game for the Sony PlayStation 2
- Prison Break, an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
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
[edit] 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
[edit] Other
- Paperback, a type of book
- Peanut butter, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
- Powerball, an American lottery game
- Presiding Bishop, is an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
- Pro bono, a Latin phrase generally used to describe professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment or at a reduced fee as a public service
[edit] See also
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