mb
millibar; millibars.
mb
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millibar; millibars.
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millibarn; millibarns.
Mb
2
American
Computers.
MB
3
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
3
British
symbol
Mb
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Scientific
MB
2
Scientific
mb
3
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
Stretched far across the glass, we begin to mb and polish.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
In total, we assembled additional 204 Mb of sequences into contigs, and added them to the genome assembly.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
The average overlap between adjacent BAC clones was ~25 kb, and the overall genomic span for each pool averaged ~1 Mb.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
Events ≤ 10 Mb were considered to be focal.
From Nature ● Jul. 18, 2017
The final assembly contains 4,952 scaffolds with a contig L50 of 67.2 kb and a scaffold L50 of 53.9 Mb.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
Type M has two other sub-types Ma and Mb.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
“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
MB Group, a conglomerate in Oman, on Monday said it struck a deal with San Francisco-based Astranis for an internet satellite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
"But think I saw you from a distance in MB yesterday...how're you?"
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
“When decisions are made about whether to abolish daylight saving time, there is no need to take concerns regarding heart health into account,” says Bernard J. Gersh, M.B.,
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
She is the author, most recently, of “That Hair,” which, translated by Eric M.B.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
A 2017 video of an officer handcuffing M.B.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020
Cuming & Knight 186,312 Hay tedder and side rake, Huber & Snell 186,346 High pressure hot air engine, O. Stenberg 186,377 Hook for drawrods, M.B.
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