Band Explained

Band or BAND may refer to:

Places

• Bánd, a village in Hungary
• Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania
• Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

People

• Band (surname), various people with the surname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Musical ensemble, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music
  • Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop
  • Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
  • Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience
  • Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music
  • Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors
  • School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music
• The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group
  • The Band (album), The Band's eponymous 1969 album
• "Bands" (song), by American rapper Comethazine
• "The Band", a 2002 single by Mando Diao

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Band, nickname of Brazilian television network Rede Bandeirantes
• The Band (film), a 1978 Israeli film
• The Band (musical), a 2017 musical by Tim Firth with the music of Take That

Clothing, jewelry, and accessories

• Armband or arm band
  • Smart band a band with electronic component
    • Microsoft Band, a smart band with smartwatch features from the software giant
• Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt
• Bands (neckwear), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers
• Belt (clothing), a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist
• Strap, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather
• Wedding band, a metal ring indicating the wearer is married

Military

• Bands (Italian Army irregulars), 19th- and 20th-century military units in the service of the Italian "Regio Esercito"
• Female order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain
• Order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain

Science and technology

• Band (algebra), an idempotent semigroup
• Band (order theory), a solid subset of an ordered vector space that contains its supremums
• Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths in radio and radar, specifically:
  • Frequency band
  • LTE frequency bands used for cellphone data
  • Shortwave bands
  • UMTS frequency bands used for cellphones
• BAND (software), a mobile app that facilitates group communication
• Band cell, a type of white blood cell
• Bird banding, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification
• Electronic band structure of electrons in solid-state physics
• Gastric band, a human weight-control measure
• Signaling (telecommunications)

• • In-band signaling
  • Out-of-band
• Birds Are Not Dinosaurs, or BAND, a controversial stance on the origin of birds

Society and government

• Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada
• Band society, a small group of humans in a simple form of society
• Tribe (Native American), a tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States

Other uses

• Rubber band
• The Band (professional wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order

See also

• • • Band of Brothers (disambiguation)
• Bandage
• Banding (disambiguation)
• Bandy (disambiguation)
• Bend (disambiguation)
• Drum and bugle corps (disambiguation)
• Herd, a social grouping of certain animals of the same species
• Ribbon (disambiguation)
• Stripe (disambiguation)