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• "Ab" = Earthy Elegance fueled by Passion.
• Ab is a Dutch
  Dutch language
  
  Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
   name.
• A^B class
  NZR Ab class
  
  The New Zealand Railways Department AB class was a class of 4-6-2 tender locomotive steam locomotive that operated on New Zealand's Rail transport in New Zealand....
  , a locomotive class operated by the New Zealand Railways Department
• Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), the Egyptian concept of the heart-soul
• Abdominal muscles (abbreviated Ab), which are the rectus abdominis or the stomach muscles
• Aktiebolag
  Aktiebolag
  
  Aktiebolag is the Swedish language term for "limited company" or "corporation". When used in company names, it is abbreviated "AB" . The governmental authority responsible for registration of limited companies in Sweden is called Bolagsverket ....
  , Swedish for "corporation," similar to AG, Ltd or Inc, as used in Finland
• Antibody
  Antibody
  
  Antibodies are gamma globulin proteins that are found in blood or other bodily fluids of vertebrates, and are used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects, such as bacterium and viruses....
  , a medical abbreviation
• Av
  AV
  
  Av may mean:* Av , a month in the Hebrew calendar* Av is a common abbreviation for aperture priority on a camera mode dial.aV may mean:...
  , a month in the Hebrew calendar

aB

• aussieBum
  AussieBum
  
  aussieBum is an Australian men's swimwear manufacturer. In recent years aussieBum has also increased its product line to other clothing include underwear, leisurewear, sportswear and loungewear that has gained a huge following with fashion savvy males, rivalling brands such as Calvin Klein and Dolce&Gabbana....
   (an Australian men's swimwear and underwear manufacturer)

ab

• Abkhazian language (ISO 639 language code)
• ab The ApacheBench
  ApacheBench
  
  ApacheBench is a command line computer program for Web server benchmarking of HyperText Transfer Protocol web servers, in particular the Apache HTTP Server....
   command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
  Apache HTTP Server
  
  The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache , is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web....
  
• Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  's subdomain
  Subdomain
  
  In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain name that is part of a larger domain. For example, "mail.example.com" and "calendar.example.com" are subdomains of the "example.com" domain, which in turn is a subdomain of the "com" top-level domain ....
   for Alberta
  Alberta
  
  Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
  
• Semitic for "father", see Ab (father)
• Indo-European for "water", see ap (water)
  Ap (water)
  
  Ap is the Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural, , whence Hindi . The term is from PIE hxap "water"....
  .
• Latin for "from", the opposite of ad, as in abduction
  Abduction
  
  Abduction may refer to:...
  , abscent, abaxonal

AB or A-B

Locations, places, and types of places

• Aberdeen
  Aberdeen
  
  Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous City status in the United Kingdom and one of Scotland's 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland....
  , after which the UK postal area
  List of postal areas in the United Kingdom
  
  For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom is divided by the Royal Mail into a number of postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode....
   AB is named.
• Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
  Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
  
  Acton-Boxborough Regional High School is a high school in Acton, Massachusetts. It serves the Massachusetts towns of Acton, Massachusetts and Boxborough, Massachusetts, with roughly 500 students per grade level in Educational stagess 9 through 12....
  , commonly abbreviated as AB
• Albania
  Albania
  
  Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
   (WMO
  World Meteorological Organization
  
  The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 188 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization , which was founded in 1873....
   country code)
• Alberta
  Alberta
  
  Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
   (Canadian
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   Province/Territory Code
  Canadian subnational postal abbreviations
  
  This is a list of Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations. Canada Post currently uses a code system of two capital letters to represent the 13 provinces and territories of Canada on addressed mail....
  )
• Air Base, used by the United States Air Force
  United States Air Force
  
  The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
   for overseas bases
• Ancienne Belgique
  Ancienne Belgique
  
  The Ancienne Belgique is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the historic heart of Brussels, it is one the leading concert venues in Belgium, hosting a wide variety of international and local acts....
  , Belgian
  Belgium
  
  * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
   concert hall located in Brussels
  Brussels
  
  Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  
• Anime Boston
  Anime Boston
  
  Anime Boston is an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The convention features a number of events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists' alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, Role-playing gamess, and a LARP....
  , an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts.

Companies, universities, and organizations, groups (and related)

• Aktiebolag
  Aktiebolag
  
  Aktiebolag is the Swedish language term for "limited company" or "corporation". When used in company names, it is abbreviated "AB" . The governmental authority responsible for registration of limited companies in Sweden is called Bolagsverket ....
  , Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG
  Aktiengesellschaft
  
  Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
  , Ltd or Inc
• Air Berlin
  Air Berlin
  
  Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs Kommanditgesellschaft is Germany's second largest airline, after Lufthansa. It is based in Berlin, Germany, and operates extensive semi-Low-cost carrier services to holiday destinations on the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands and North Africa, as well as to major cities in Europe from 21 Germany a...
  , IATA code
• AB Airlines
  AB Airlines
  
  AB Airlines was one of the first 'low cost airlines' in England, preceding others such as easyJet, Ryanair, and Go Fly. It was created in 1993 by former Brymon Airways executives....
  , a defunct British airline
• Activision Blizzard
  Activision Blizzard
  
  Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a France-owned, United States-based video game developer and video game publisher, partially owned by Conglomerate Vivendi SA....
  , a video game developer and publisher.
• Anheuser-Busch
  Anheuser-Busch
  
  Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. is the largest brewing company in the United States and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. It holds a 48.8% share of beer sales by volume in the United States....
  , the world's third largest brewing company
• Allen-Bradley
  Allen-Bradley
  
  Allen-Bradley is the brand-name of a line of Factory Automation Equipment manufactured by Rockwell Automation . The company, with revenues of approximately US$4.5 1,000,000,000 in 2006, manufactures programmable automation controllers , human-machine interfaces, sensors, safety components and systems, software, drives and drive systems, co...
  , manufacturer of industrial control and automation products
• AllianceBernstein
  AllianceBernstein
  
  | foundation = 1967 | location = New York | key_people = Peter S. Kraus, Chairman & CEOGerald Lieberman, President and Chief Operating Officer |...
  , a US based asset management firm
• Alderson-Broaddus College
  Alderson-Broaddus College
  
  Alderson-Broaddus College, informally known as "A-B", is a private, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the West Virginia Baptist Convention located in Philippi, West Virginia, USA....
  , a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
  West Virginia
  
  West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....
  
• Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos
  Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos
  
  "Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos" or simply "AB" is a supermarket chain based in Greece. ...
  , a Greek supermarket chain
• Appellate Body
  Appellate Body
  
  The Appellate Body of the WTO is a standing body of seven persons that hears appeals from reports issued by Panels in disputes brought by WTO Members....
  , a division of the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO
  World Trade Organization
  
  The World Trade Organization is an international organization designed to supervise and Free trade international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international org...
  
• Applied Biosystems
  Applied Biosystems
  
  Applied Biosystems, Inc. is the original name of a pioneer biotechnology company founded in 1981 in Foster City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area....
  , a US-based biotechnology firm
• Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts
  Bachelor of Arts
  
  Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
  , often abbreviated A.B. (same degree as B.A.)
• Aryan Brotherhood
  Aryan Brotherhood
  
  The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the AB or The Brand, is a White people prison gang numbering about 15,000 members in and out of prison....
  , an American gang
• Afrikaner Broederbond
  Afrikaner Broederbond
  
  Between 1918 and 1994 the Afrikaner Broederbond or Broederbond was a secret, exclusively male and white Protestant organization in South Africa dedicated to the advancement of Afrikaner interests....
  , the South African secret society from 1918-1994
• Bachelor of Arts
  Bachelor of Arts
  
  Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
  , written in the 19th century as A.B.

Medicine, science, technology, and math

• One of the human blood types in the ABO blood group system
  ABO blood group system
  
  The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system in human blood transfusion. The associated anti-A antibodies and anti-B antibodies are usually IgM antibodies, which are usually produced in the first years of life by sensitization to environmental substances such as food, bacteria and viruses....
  
• AB Class amplifier
  Electronic amplifier
  
  An electronic amplifier is a device for increasing the Power and/or amplitude of a Signal . It does this by taking energy from a power supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape but with a larger amplitude....
  
• Aharonov-Bohm effect
  Aharonov-Bohm effect
  
  The Aharonov?Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg?Siday?Aharonov?Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanics phenomenon by which a charged particle is affected by electromagnetic fields in regions from which the particle is excluded....
   arising in a certain experiment of quantum mechanics
  Quantum mechanics
  
  Quantum mechanics is a set of principles underlying the most fundamental known description of all physical systems at the microscopic scale . Notable amongst these principles are both a dual wave-like and particle-like behavior of matter and radiation, and prediction of probabilities in situations where classical physics predicts certaintie...
  .
• Abscess
  Abscess
  
  An abscess is a collection of pus that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue on the basis of an infection process or other foreign materials ....
  es caused by injections, especially heroin injection
• Antibody
  Antibody
  
  Antibodies are gamma globulin proteins that are found in blood or other bodily fluids of vertebrates, and are used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects, such as bacterium and viruses....
  
• Aurora Borealis

Sports

• At Bat
  At bat
  
  In baseball, an at bat or time at bat is used to calculate certain baseball statistics, including batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage....
  , baseball statistic
• Andris Biedrinš
  Andris Biedrinš
  
  Andris Biedrin? is a Latvian professional basketball player who plays the power forward and center positions for the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors....
  , basketball player
• Akademisk Boldklub
  Akademisk Boldklub
  
  Akademisk Boldklub or AB is a Denmark professional football club from Copenhagen,currently playing at the second highest level in Danish domestic football, the Danish 1st Division....
  , a Danish professional football club
• AB is the nickname of legendary Australian cricket
  Cricket
  
  Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
  er Allan Border
  Allan Border
  
  Allan Robert Border, Order of Australia is a former Australian cricket teamn cricket captain. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test cricket in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh....
  
• Atlanta Braves
  Atlanta Braves
  
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
  , an MLB Baseball team
• AB de Villiers, South African middle order batsman

Terms for people

• "Able-Bodied
  Able-bodied
  
  Able-bodied refers, in law, to an individual's physical or mental capacity for gainful employment or military service, and it is in this sense that the term is also used regarding eligibility for payment of child support or alimony....
  ", as used by some members of the disabled community
• Able Seaman (occupation)
  Able Seaman (occupation)
  
  An Able Seaman is an licensed mariner of the deck department of a merchant ship. An AB may work as a watchstander, a day worker, or a combination of these roles....
  , a civilian occupation
• Able Seaman (rank)
  Able Seaman (rank)
  
  Royal NavyIn the United Kingdom Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term Able Seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years' experience at sea....
  , a naval rank
• Adult Baby, one who engages in infantilism.
• Airman Basic
  Airman Basic
  
  Airman Basic is the lowest enlisted rank in the United States Air Force , immediately below Airman#United States Air Force. The U.S. military pay grades for Airman Basic is E-1....
  , the lowest rank
  Enlisted rank
  
  An enlisted rank in the Military of the United States is any rank below a Officer . The term can also be inclusive of noncommissioned officers....
   in the United States Air Force
  United States Air Force
  
  The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
  .
• Good Eats
  Good Eats
  
  Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown that airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr....
   host Alton Brown
  Alton Brown
  
  Alton Crawford Walter Brown is an American food personality, cinematographer, author, aircraft pilot, and actor. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the main commentator on Iron Chef America....
  's nickname

Culture, food and history

• Aitareya Brahmana
  Aitareya Brahmana
  
  The Aitareya Brahmana is a ritualistic Vedic text in Vedic Sanskrit language. This Brahmana is associated with the Rigveda in the Shakala shakha....
  
• AB-Aktion, short for Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion
  Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion
  
  AB-Aktion or Au?erordentliche Befriedungsaktion , was a Nazi Germany campaign during World War II aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of the Polish people....
  , the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II
• Address book
  Address Book
  
  Address Book is an address book for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X. It features various syncing features and integrations into the rest of the OS....
  

Miscellanea

• Assembly Bill