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WB, Wb, or wb may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Warner Bros., a large American film and television company
    • The WB, an American television network from 1995 to 2006
    • WB Channel, an Indian channel from Warner Bros
  • RwandAir, a Rwandan airline whose International Air Transport Association code is "WB"
  • Wachovia, an American banking chain whose former New York Stock Exchange IP was "WB"
  • W.B. Mason, an American office supply company
  • World Balance, a shoe company
  • World Bank Group, an International finance organization
  • World Bowling, the International governing body for nine-pin and ten-pin bowling
  • Whataburger, a speed-food restaurant chain in the southern United States from Florida to Arizona
  • WildBlue, a satellite internet service provider
  • Waagner-Biro, an Austrian company
  • Wild Bunch (company), film financer from France

Places

  • West Bengal, a state in eastern India, whose ISO abbreviation is "IN-WB"
  • West Bank of the river Jordan, a disputed region in the Middle East
  • West Brighton, a neighborhood on the North Shore of Staten Island, colloquially termed "the WB" or "the West"

Science

  • Weber (unit) (Wb), the SI unit of magnetic flux
  • Western blot, a medical diagnosis tool
  • White balance, a technical term in color photography
  • Woronin body, a microbody in the hyphae of filamentous Ascomycota
  • Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, the standard dictionary of Ancient Egyptian, published 1926–1963, in bibliographies
  • Writeback, a procedure conducted by a computer cache

Sport

  • Waasland-Beveren, Belgian football club
  • Warmbloods, a group of middle-weight horse types and breeds, primarily originating in Europe
  • Western Bulldogs, an Australian rules football club
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