CB and variants may refer to:
Places
[edit]- CB postcode area, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office
- Cambodia (LOC MARC code, obsolete FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram CB)
- Cape Breton (disambiguation)
- Centura București, a ring road of Bucharest, Romania
- Colegio Bolivar, an American school in Cali, Colombia
- Colwyn Bay, Wales
- Province of Campobasso, Italy
- ČB – České Budějovice, Czech Republic
People
[edit]- Chris Brown (born 1989), American R&B singer
- Chris Bosh (born 1984), American basketball player
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1906–1908, widely referred to by his surname initials
- Chauncey the Bear, a imaginary friend in 2024 film Imaginary
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Carte Bancaire, a bank card brand
- Christianssands Bryggeri, a Norwegian brewery
- ScotAirways (IATA airline code CB)
Business and financial terms
[edit]- Capacity building, the process by which individuals and organizations obtain, improve, and retain the skills and knowledge needed to undertake their tasks
- Certification body
- Chargeback, a reversal of a banking or credit card transaction
- Convertible bond, a type of bond that can convert into a specified number of shares
Science and technology
[edit]Computing and telecommunications
[edit]- Cell Broadcast, in GSM mobile networks
- Citizens band radio (CB radio), a system of short-distance radio communications
- Closed beta, a software development stage or testing process
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Cannabinoids, a group of substances that bind to animal cannabinoid receptors
- Circuit breaker, an automatic electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overcurrent
- Columbium (Cb), an obsolete name for the element niobium
- Conduction band of the electrons in a (semiconducting) solid
- Confirmation bias
- Cumulonimbus cloud (Cb), a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather
Sea vessels
[edit]- CB-class midget submarine, a group of midget submarines built for the Italian Navy during World War II
- Block coefficient (Cb), a parameter describing the shape of a ship's hull
- A retired US Navy hull classification symbol: Large cruiser (CB)
Sports
[edit]Positions
[edit]- Centre-back, a defensive position in association football
- Cornerback, a position in American football
Teams
[edit]- Chicago Bears, a team in the National Football League
- Chicago Bulls, a team in the National Basketball Association
- Cleveland Browns, a team in the National Football League
- Cincinnati Bengals, a team in the National Football League
- Chicago Blackhawks, a team in the National Hockey League
Titles
[edit]- Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the chief judge of the Court of Exchequer, an abolished English court
- Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a title conferred to British and Commonwealth citizens
Other uses
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with C. B.
- 2020 Singapore circuit breaker measures, commonly abbreviated as CB, a stay-at-home order implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
- CB, dominical letter for a leap year starting on Friday
- Casus belli, a Latin expression meaning reason for war
- Construction Battalion (CB or "Seabee"), a United States Navy unit responsible for any type of construction be it general or combat on land or under water.
- Curveball, a music festival hosted by the band Phish
- Cone Beam (especially CBCT; Cone beam computed tomography)
- Cumulative Bulletin, an annual compilation of the Internal Revenue Bulletin