AB
In arts and media
- Abhishek Bachchan, an Indian actor
- Alter Bridge, an American hard rock band
- American Bandstand, a music-performance television show
- Amitabh Bachchan, an Indian actor
- Analecta Bollandiana, an academic journal
- Ancienne Belgique, a Belgian concert hall located in Brussels
- Angry Birds, a 2009 puzzle video game by Rovio Entertainment
In business
Business terminology
- Akcinė bendrovė, Lithuanian equivalent of an S.A. corporation
- Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
Businesses
- A & B High Performance Firearms, a defunct sporting firearms manufacturer
- AB Airlines, a defunct British airline
- AB Groupe, a French broadcasting group
- Activision Blizzard, American holding company for Activision and Blizzard Entertainment
- Air Berlin (IATA airline code AB)
- Alderson-Broaddus College, a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
- Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
- Allen-Bradley, a brand of industrial control products, manufactured by Rockwell Automation
- AllianceBernstein (New York Stock Exchange Symbol AB), a US-based asset management firm
- American Biograph, AB used as a film logo
- Anheuser-Busch, the world's third largest brewing company
Occupations and ranks
- Able Seaman (occupation), a civilian occupation
- Able Seaman (rank), a naval rank
- Airman Basic, the lowest rank in the United States Air Force
Organizations
- Afrikaner Broederbond, a South African secret society from 1918 to 1994
- Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
Places
- Anzab-e Olya, also called Ab, a village in Iran
- AB postcode area, UK, including Aberdeen, Scotland
- Atlantic Beach, FL, also called AB, a city in the United States
- Albania (WMO country code)
- Alberta (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
- Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
- Aschaffenburg, Germany (on vehicle registration plates)
Science, technology and mathematics
Medicine
- AB blood, a blood type in the ABO blood group system
- AB toxin, Type III toxin secreted by some pathogenic bacteria
- Antibody, a medical abbreviation
- Abs, common name for the rectus abdominis muscle, a paired stomach muscle
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- AB (star catalogue), Azzopardi / Breysacher catalogue of Wolf Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
- Aggregate base
- Albite, a feldspar mineral
- Ammonia borane, a chemical compound
- Alabamine, a former name of Astatine
- AB Class amplifier, a classification of electric amplifier
- The category of abelian groups (Ab), in mathematics
- NZR Ab class a New Zealand steam locomotive
- Antibonding (a.b.), used to describe the character of orbitals in atomic and molecular electronic structure
- ApacheBench, a command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
- Armed boarding steamer, used by the United Kingdom during World War I, for boarding enemy vessels
In religion
- Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), a concept of the heart-soul in ancient Egyptian religion
- Ab., a Hebrew abbreviation related to Pirkei Avot, a compilation of teachings and maxims from the Mishnaic period
- Aitareya Brahmana, an ancient Indian collection of sacred hymns
In sport
Association football
- Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
- Argja Bóltfelag, a Faroese association football club
Rugby union
- All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team
- Aviron Bayonnais, French rugby union club
Other
- AB de Villiers, South African middle order batsman and wicket-keeper
- Adrien Broner, American Boxer, nicknamed AB
- Allan Border, Australian cricketer, nicknamed A.B.
- Antonio Brown, American football player, nicknamed AB
- At Bat, in baseball statistics
Other uses
- Ab (cuneiform), a written syllable
- Ab (given name), a short form of Albert (or occasionally Abraham or Abbott)
- Ab (Semitic), a Semitic word for "father"
- ab, a Welsh patronymic
- Ap (water), Vedic Sanskti term for water, surviving as In Persian as Āb
- AB, a South Australian dish made of hot potato chips, gyro meat and sauces, similar to a Halal snack pack
- Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 language code ab), a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people
- Adult baby, a person who practices paraphilic infantilism
- Artium baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts
- Assembly Bill, a type of legislation in the United States
- Absolute Beginner, a German rap group
See also
- A/B (disambiguation)
- BA (disambiguation)
- A-flat (disambiguation) ("A♭"), the musical note, scale, or key
- Av, a month in the Hebrew calendar
- Aβ, Beta amyloid, peptides of amino acids that are involved in Alzheimer's disease
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