SB explained

SB or Sb may refer to:

Places

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code SB)
• San Bernardino, California, US
• Santa Barbara, California, US
• Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 country code SB)
• South Burlington, Vermont
• Sibiu County, Romania

Organisations

• Special Branch, of UK and some Commonwealth police
• Służba Bezpieczeństwa, secret police in communist Poland
• Sluzhba Bezpeky, WWII Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service
• Shaw Brothers Studio, a Hong Kong movie company
• Statistics Bureau (Japan)
• Šiaulių bankas, a Lithuanian commercial bank

Science and technology

• SB buffer, for electrophoresis
• Antimony, symbol Sb, a chemical element
• Barred spiral galaxy, in astronomy
• Scientiæ Baccalaureus or Bachelor of Science, an academic degree
• Spectroscopic binary stars, designated SB1 and SB2
• Stilb (unit) (symbol sb), a unit of luminance
• sideband
• Spina bifida

Computing

• .sb file, the file format for Scratch Projects
  • .sb2 file and .sb3, the file formats for Scratch 2 and 3
• .sb, Internet country code top-level domain for Solomon Islands

Sport and games

• Nike SB, skateboarding shoes
• "Season's Best", an athletics abbreviation
• Stolen base, in baseball
• Sonneborn–Berger score, a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments
• Sundby Boldklub, a football club in Denmark
• The Super Bowl

Transportation

• Aircalin (IATA airline code)
• Sailing barge (ship prefix)
• Skagensbanen (the Skagen Railway), a Danish railway line and company
• South Buffalo Railway (reporting code)
• Surabaya Kota railway station, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (station code: SB)
• Suroboyo Bus in Surabaya, Indonesia
• Tupolev SB, a Soviet bomber of World War II
• Toyota SB, car
• SB craft, an Imperial Japanese Army variant of the Imperial Japanese Navy's No. 101-class landing ship

Other uses

• Special Warfare Boat Operator rating, US Navy
• Senate Bill, typically coded like "SB 1234"
• Sonderbehandlung, German Nazi era euphemism for mass murder
• Soldier Boy, three fictional superheroes
• Substantive, or noun, in some languages
• Swagbucks, a rewards company by Prodege
• Starbucks, a coffee company

See also

• • • BS (disambiguation)
• B (disambiguation)
• S (disambiguation)
• SBS (disambiguation)

Saint

• St. Bonaventure