PB
Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element lead. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Paul's Boutique, a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
- Prussian Blue, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
- PB, an album by Norwegian musician Per Bergersen
Publications
- Performance Bikes (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine
- Playboy, an American men's magazine
- Post-Bulletin, an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota
Television
- Princess Bubblegum, a character from the 2010 animated TV series Adventure Time
- Prison Break, an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
- Puppy Bowl, an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005
Anime-Manga
- Phantom Blood, the first story arc of shōnen manga series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Companies and organizations
- Packard Bell Corporation, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
- Packard Bell, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
- Palladium Books, a publisher of role-playing games
- Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada
- Parsons Brinckerhoff, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP
- PBair, a now-defunct Thai airline
- Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website
- Piranha Bytes, a German video game developer
- Pirate Bay, a file-sharing organization
- Pitney Bowes, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping
- PocketBook International, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand
- Pottery Barn, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain
- ProBoards, an online message board service
- Prosperity Party (Paartii Badhaadhiinaa), a political party in Ethiopia
Economics and finance
- Payback period, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment
- Performance bond, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor
- Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme
- Price-to-book ratio, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price
- Prime brokerage
- Participatory budgeting, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget
Education
- Brunei Polytechnic, a post-secondary institution in Brunei
- Philosophy and Belief, a school subject
- Project Blogger, an Irish educational initiative
- Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages
People
- Panda Bear (musician) (born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective
- Chris Pontius (born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"
Places
United States
- Pacific Beach, San Diego, Californiaa neighborhood in San Diego, California
- Palm Bay, Florida
- Palm Beach, Florida
- Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- Pismo Beach, California
Other countries
- Paraíba, a state of Brazil
- Port Blair, a town in the Andaman Islands
- Punjab (disambiguation), the name of several locations in South Asia
- Paderborn, town and eponymous district in Germany, known by their vehicle registration code PB
- Považská Bystrica, town in Slovakia, known by its vehicle registration code PB
- CIA cryptonym for Guatemala.
Science and technology
Chemistry
- Lead, symbol Pb, a chemical element
- Polybutylene, a polymer of the substance butylene
Computing and software
- terabitsused, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
- terabyteswhich is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
- PowerBook, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple
- PowerBuilder, an integrated software development environment
- PunkBuster, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games
Medicine
- Peripheral blood, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
- Phenobarbital, a barbiturate
Other uses in science and technology
- PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
- Picobarn, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics
- Pipe bomb, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material
- Push button, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user
Sports
- Personal Best, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.
- Paintball, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun
- Passed ball, in baseball
Transportation
- Patrol boat, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
- Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
- Irizar PB, a bus coach body
Other uses
- Paperback, a type of book
- Peanut butter, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
- Personal best, an individual's best performance in a given sporting discipline.
- Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods.
- Post box, a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail.
- Powerball, an American lottery game
- Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
- Pro bono, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service
See also
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