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The abbreviation KB or kb can refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Banks
- KB Kookmin Bank, the largest bank in South Korea
- Kaupthing Bank, a bank in Iceland
- Komerční banka, a bank in the Czech Republic
- Kasikorn Bank, a bank in Thailand
- Karafarin Bank, a bank in Iran
Libraries
- National Library of Sweden (Swedish: Kungliga biblioteket)
- National Library of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
Sport
- Kalix BF, a Swedish bandy club
- Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen
Other businesses and organizations
- KB Home, a major American home builder
- KB Lager, a brand of Australian beer
- KB Toys, a United States toy retail chain
- K&B, a local drug store in New Orleans, Louisiana, that was bought by Rite Aid
- Druk Air (IATA code: KB), the national airline of Bhutan
People
- Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer), former Australian rules footballer
- KB (rapper), stage name of Christian hip hop artist Kevin Elijah Burgess
- Kyle Busch, a NASCAR driver
Science and technology
Computing
- Kilobit (kb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify network transmission capacity
- Kilobyte (kB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
- Computer keyboard, an input device for computer
- Knowledge base, used to store complex structured and unstructured information
- Microsoft Knowledge Base, containing information on problems encountered by users of Microsoft products
Vehicles
- KB series, a truck produced by International Harvester
- KB is a name used by Isuzu in some markets for two related models:
- Isuzu Faster, a pickup truck
- Isuzu D-Max, a pickup truck
- NZR Kb class a New Zealand steam locomotive
Other uses in science and technology
- Base dissociation constant (Kb), the equilibrium constant for a base
- Ebullioscopic constant (Kb), which relates molality to boiling point elevation
- Boltzmann constant (kB), the physical constant which relates temperature to energy
- Kilo-base pair (kb or kbp), a unit of measurement of DNA or RNA length used in genetics, equal to 1,000 nucleotides
- Kauri-butanol value, (Kb value) a measure of solvent performance
Other uses
- King's Bench, an ancient English court, or the legal citation denoting a case in such court
- King's Buildings, a campus at the University of Edinburgh, containing most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering
- Knowledge Bowl, an interdisciplinary academic competition
- Knight of the Bath, a former rank (before 1815) of the Order of the Bath, a part of the British honours system
- sometimes also incorrectly used to refer to Knight Bachelor
- WWKB, a radio station often referred to as KB Radio 1520
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