Stub
Shortened objects and entities
- Stub (stock), the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out
- Stub, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk; see pollarding
- Pay stub, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee
- Stub period, period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon
- Stub road, an unused road junction
- Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder
Computing and electronics
- Stub (distributed computing), a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing
- Stub (electronics), a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines
- Method stub, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality
- Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks
- Test stub, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing
People
Given name
- Stub Wiberg (1875–1929), Norwegian actor
Nickname
- Stub Brown (1870–1938), American baseball player
- Stubb Ross (died 1987), Canadian airline entrepreneur
- Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield (1931–1995), American barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician
Surname
- Alexander Stubb (born 1968), Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015
- Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet
- Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player
- Jens Stub (1764–1819), Norwegian politician
- Sverre Stub (born 1946), Norwegian diplomat
Other uses
- Stub Place, settlement in Cumbria, England
- Stubb, a character in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Stubb Glacier, an Antarctic glacier named for the Moby-Dick character
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