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STAB or stab can mean:
  • The act of stabbing
    Stabbing
    A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...

     with a sharp instrument
  • Stab, a short form of stab jacket, another word for buoyancy compensator
  • Stab vest
    Stab vest
    A stab vest, or stab proof vest is a reinforced piece of body armor, worn under or over other items of clothing, which is designed to resist knife attacks to the chest, back and sides...

    , a type of armour designed to resist knife attacks
  • Stab (music)
    Stab (music)
    In music, a stab is a single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition. Stabs are usually provided by horns , thus the term horn stab, or an orchestral sample, usually occur on a 1-beat, and are frequently used in funk, freestyle, and ska.As well, stabs are used in electronic music,...

    , a single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition
  • STAB, an acronym for "Store to accumulator B", in some forms of assembly language
    Assembly language
    An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...

  • STAB, an acronym for the St. Anne's-Belfield School
    St. Anne's-Belfield School
    St. Anne's-Belfield School is a co-educational, independent boarding and day school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.The school is located on in Charlottesville, VA, USA, near the campus of the University of Virginia....

    , a college preparatory school located in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  • "Stab", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
  • STAB, same type attack bonus, a statistical element in the Pokémon video games
  • Stab is the German language word for "staff", in the sense of an administrative body, especially in military usage. Stab (Luftwaffe designation)
    Stab (Luftwaffe designation)
    During World War II, the suffix Stab was used in the German Luftwaffe to designate a headquarters unit. This applied to subordinate units in each Gruppe or Geschwader — the equivalent units to wings and groups in other air forces.These command units used the green colour of their aircraft...

    , during World War II was the German Luftwaffe (air force) designation for command aircraft or headquarters units
  • STAB boat, a type of US Navy boat
  • Johann Stab, another way of referring to the Austrian scientist Johannes Stabius
    Johannes Stabius
    Johannes Stabius was an Austrian cartographer of Vienna who developed, around 1500, the heart-shape projection map later developed further by Johannes Werner. It is called the Werner map projection, but also the Stabius-Werner or the Stab-Werner projection...

  • British Army slang for a Territorial Army (United Kingdom) soldier (Stupid TA Bastard)
  • Stab, the metafictional film-within-a-film from Scream 2
    Scream 2
    Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film created and written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy and Liev Schreiber, released on December 12, 1997 as the second installment in the Scream film series...

    , Scream 3
    Scream 3
    Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, released on February 4, 2000 as the third, and originally, concluding installment in the Scream film series...

     and Scream 4
    Scream 4
    Scream 4 is a 2011 American slasher horror film and the fourth installment in the Scream film series. Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream and Scream 2, the film stars an ensemble cast which includes David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts,...

  • Symbol table
    Symbol table
    In computer science, a symbol table is a data structure used by a language translator such as a compiler or interpreter, where each identifier in a program's source code is associated with information relating to its declaration or appearance in the source, such as its type, scope level and...

    , a data structure used by a language translator such as a compiler
    Compiler
    A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...

     or interpreter
    Interpreter (computing)
    In computer science, an interpreter normally means a computer program that executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming language...