G.B.
abbreviation
Great Britain.
G.B.
Americanabbreviation
GB
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British
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Great Britain
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Also: Gb. gigabyte
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Great Britain (international car registration)
Gb
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British
symbol
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GB
Scientific
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With its contortionists, fortune tellers, strong men and women, and various sideshow attractions, the G.B.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
G.B. and S.R.K. and reviewed by the collaboration.
From Nature ● Nov. 21, 2017
But the risk of developing cataracts -- a clouding of the lens of the eye -- is insignificant compared with the benefits of these drugs, said lead researcher Dr. G.B.
From US News ● Dec. 5, 2014
Britain was eliminated by South Korea on Saturday in soccer, but Carroll was not selected for Team G.B. anyway.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2012
What does the Bible call the three men represented as looking at the baby in the Madonna picture on page 408 G.B.?
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
It was the third time in four Winter Olympics that Team GB had won five medals, but they had only ever won a maximum of one gold medal on the previous occasions.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The news comes six months after Team GB enjoyed their most successful Winter Olympics at Milan-Cortina.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
GB Snowsport has changed its chair twice in the past three years and is currently advertising for a new chair.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
She has spoken openly about her experiences as a teenager, including in an interview with GB News in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
On my desktop machine, a Surface Studio 2 wired to the modem/router, I’m pleased to get just under 1 Gb speed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
The total insert DNA length was about 54.9 Gb, approximately 11 equivalents of the whole genome of T. urartu.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Finally, we connected the BAC sequences iteratively into contigs based on their overlapping relationship within FPC contig, and obtained 5.33 Gb in total length with a contig N50 of 183 kb.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
After the aforementioned processes, 9,112 BioNano genome maps with a total map length of 4.68 Gb were generated.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
In 1866 he published a pamphlet on the subject; in 1867 a second, which, so possessed was he by his fury against his opponent, he signed with the latter's own initials, Gb.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
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