mb
millibar; millibars.
mb
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millibar; millibars.
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millibarn; millibarns.
Mb
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American
Computers.
MB
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American
abbreviation
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Manitoba, Canada (approved for postal use).
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Computers. megabyte; megabytes.
M.B.
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American
abbreviation
Chiefly British.
MB
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British
abbreviation
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Bachelor of Medicine
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maternity benefit
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(esp in postal addresses) Manitoba
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(in Canada) Medal of Bravery
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computing megabyte
Mb
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British
abbreviation
mb
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British
symbol
Mb
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Scientific
MB
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Scientific
mb
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Scientific
Etymology
Origin of M.B.
From New Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus
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The storm's central air pressure dropped to 892 millibars as of the National Hurricane Center's advisory on Tuesday morning local time, below Hurricane Katrina's 902 mb.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
It was tied for the ninth strongest storm on landfall, far behind the 1935 Labor Day storm’s 892 mb and even 2005’s Katrina, which had lower wind speeds but a pressure of 920 millibars.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
Maximum sustained winds were 105 mph with a minimum central pressure of 965 mb.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2020
Pictures should ideally be 300 dpi and 1 mb.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2012
While I am still able, I go about the business of healing, crushing leaves of me to mb on aching joints and applying poultices to clear the lungs.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
In total, we assembled additional 204 Mb of sequences into contigs, and added them to the genome assembly.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Events ≤ 10 Mb were considered to be focal.
From Nature ● Jul. 18, 2017
This produced 6,043 scaffold sequences, with a scaffold L50 of 4.9 Mb and total scaffold size of 692.7 Mb.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
Recent TE activity accounts for only 2 Mb of the size difference.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
Its spectral type is Mb, a fact worth fixing in our memory, as different reasons favour the belief that it is precisely the M-type that contains the very faintest stars.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
The company said Thursday that it will buy the facility from Gulf Coast Ammonia, a chemical manufacturing company owned by Lotus Infrastructure Partners and MB Energy that is developing the plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Enjoy the current pump figures,” said MB Ghalibaf, speaker of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s parliament, in a post on X on Sunday.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 12, 2026
Shortly after Lehman folded, AIG found itself obligated to pay, all at once, the parties to whom it had sold CDS on MB.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
The second day of a trial covering the Salt Lake County assault on a woman, known as MB, is taking place at the Third Judicial District Court in Salt Lake County.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
Eric’s computer: an AMD K-6 233 with a generic motherboard; an S3 video card, a 15-inch monitor; a 2.5 GB hard drive with 36 MB SDRAM.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
"The pioneering approach shows potential in targeting inflammatory disease sites more precisely and improving immunosuppression and healing outcomes," says Saad Kenderian, M.B.,
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
The case against WSU was first filed in Thurston County Superior Court in January 2020 by the student, who asked to be referred to as M.B.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
Investigators ultimately interviewed the officer, known in the papers only as M.B.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
A 2017 video of an officer handcuffing M.B.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020
Jeanne M.B. de la Mothe—known always as Madame Guyon—the lady who wrote these words in exile, probably sang more “songs in the night” than any hymn-writer outside of the Dark Ages.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
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