Rib (disambiguation)

Rib or RIB may refer to:

In anatomy

• Rib, a bone attached to the spine, in vertebrate animals
• Ribs (food), the cooked meat and rib bones of a food animal
• Rib or costa, the leading edge of an insect wing (See Glossary of entomology terms)

In construction

• Rib (aircraft), a portion of an aircraft wing
• Rib, a member attached to the keel in boat building
• Rib, any slender molded masonry arch projecting from a surface, particularly as part of an architectural vault
  • Rib vault, a type of architectural vault in which the ribs are built first

Others

• Rib (professional wrestling), a practical joke
• The sides of a violin or a guitar
• The sides of a tunnel
• A stitch pattern in knitting
• A tool used for shaping or smoothing pottery
• A type of fabric with closely woven yarn.

Acronyms

• RIB, Relay in a Box, Trademark of Functional Devices Inc.
• RIB, Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
• RIB, RenderMan Interface Bytestream
• Romanian International Bank
• Routing Information Base
• Roman Inscriptions of Britain, an archaeological reference book
• Retirement Insurance Benefits, old age insurance provided by the United States Social Security Administration
• Ryukyu Islands Boy Scouts
• Renault Industrie Belgique S.A. / Renault Industrie België N.V., a Belgian plant of the Renault concern
• RIB, Remote Insight Board, an add-on computer server interface supporting Compaq's forerunner of Hewlett-Packard Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) remote system management protocols.

Music

• R.I.B. (album), a 2014 release by German metal band Tankard
• Razed in Black, an industrial music group
• Reign in Blood, an album by thrash metal band, Slayer
• "Ribs" (song) a 2013 song by Lorde from her album Pure Heroine