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This article is a stub. Seriously, did you think we were lying with the title?

Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

  • Stub (stock), 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
  • Pay stub, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee
  • Stub period, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon
  • Stub road, an unused road junction
  • Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder

Computing and electronics

  • Stub (distributed computing), a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing
  • Stub (electronics), a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines
  • Method stub, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality
  • Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks
  • Test stub, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing

People

Given name or nickname

Surname

Other uses

  • Stub Place, settlement in Cumbria, England
  • Stubb, a character in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

See also