G.B.
abbreviation
Great Britain.
G.B.
Americanabbreviation
Gb
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British
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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
Scientific
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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
A man who gave only his stage name as G.B.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2011
Look at the pictures on pages 294 G.B.,
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
Reaching an effective sequencing depth of 300× for each sample requires only 5 Gb of data.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
This included 96,546 scaffolds with a size of 2,000 bp or longer for a total length of 5.71 Gb.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
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 Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
The portrait is part of the Local Royalty campaign by Coca-Cola GB, and will go on show from 28 October at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The exhibition, sponsored by Coca-Cola GB, will be open to the public from 28 October to 2 November at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
In an address to the auditorium, Paul Bush, managing director of the Grand Depart GB 2027 called it an "extraordinary, and historic moment".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Inside a warehouse on England's south coast, boxes are stacked with pristine Team GB clothing from Paris 2024 and Milan Cortina 2026.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
They were mostly English, ex-colonial administrators and business people from John Holt and Kingsway and GB Ollivant and Shell-BP and United Africa Company.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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