NB
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NB, Nb, or nb may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
N.B. (album), an album by Natasha Bedingfield
NB (TV programme), a Scottish arts television programme that aired 1989–1997
Business
NB Global Monthly Income Fund, a British investment company
National bank (disambiguation) several banks
Language
Nota bene, often abbreviated as NB or n.b., a Latin phrase meaning "note well"
nb, ISO 639-1 code for Bokmål, the written standard of the Norwegian language
牛屄 (niúbī), a common word in Mandarin Chinese profanity
Places
New Brunswick, a province of Canada, (postal abbreviation: NB)
Nebraska, US, (former postal abbreviation: NB; changed to NE)
Science and technology
Niobium, symbol Nb, a chemical element
Naive Bayes classifier, in statistics
Neuroblastoma, a type of cancer
Nominal bore or nominal pipe size, a set of standard sizes for pipes
Nanobarn (nb), a unit of cross-sectional area
NB (programming language), an intermediate-stage language known as "New B" that evolved from the "B" language and then further evolved into the "C" language
Switch marking for a radio's Noise blanker, which reduces impulse noise
Transportation
Niesenbahn, a funicular railway in Switzerland
Sterling Airlines, a defunct Danish airline (IATA designator)
NB class, Australian steam locomotives
Boeing NB, a 1923 training aircraft
Mazda MX-5 (NB), the second generation of the Mazda MX-5
Narrowboat ship prefix
Other uses
National Battlefield, a protected area in the United States
No-ball in cricket
Non-binary, a term used by people who identify as neither male nor female
New Balance, a shoe company
Nigerian Breweries, a beverage company
National Bolshevism, a syncretic political movement
See also
All pages with titles beginning with NB
All pages with titles beginning with Nb
All pages with titles beginning with N B
All pages with titles beginning with N b
All pages with titles beginning with Nb.
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