DB explained

DB, dB or db may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

• Daily Bugle or DB, a fictional New York City newspaper in Marvel Comics
• Doing Business Report, by the World Bank Group

Music

• D♭ (musical note)
• DB Records, Atlanta, Georgia, US
• The dB's, a band in the 1980
• DJ DB, a New York–based British DJ

Brands and enterprises

• DB (car), a French automobile maker
• Brit Air (IATA airline code)
• DB Breweries, a New Zealand company
• DB Networks, an American information security firm
• Deutsche Bahn, a German railway company since 1994
• Deutsche Bank (NYSE symbol), a multinational investment bank headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany
• Deutsche Bundesbahn, national railway company of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1994
• Dolderbahn, a rack railway in Zürich, Switzerland

Places

• Dâmbovița County (ISO 3166-2:RO code), Romania
• DB Draw, a bridge over the Passaic River, US
• Discovery Bay, a residential development in Hong Kong
• Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kingsport, Tennessee, US

Science and technology

• Database (DB), an organized collection of data on a computer system.
• .db, file extension for some database files
• Decibel (dB), acoustics and electronics unit
• Dubnium, symbol Db, a chemical element
• , a Linux distribution
• dry bulb, a temperature definition

Other uses

• ȸ, the db-digraph a ligature of "d" and "b" in African linguistics
• Defensive back, a position in American football and Canadian football
• Defined benefit pension plan, a scheme for retirement plans
• double-breasted, a style of garment with wide, overlapping front flaps
• State Security Service (FR Yugoslavia) (DB), Serbian secret police

See also

• Detective Branch (DB), Bangladeshi law-enforcement agency
• DB, the model names of some Aston Martin vehicles
  • David Brown (entrepreneur) (1904–1993), whose initials are on a series of Aston Martin cars
• DB9, DB25, etc., types of D-subminiature connector
• D&B (disambiguation)