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
The N50 length of the BioNano genome map was 0.61 Mb and the average map length was 0.54 Mb.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
To monitor gene expression level along the T. urartu chromosomes in the three organs, we applied a window shift size of 5 Mb in a customized perl script.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
About 200 Mb of the super-scaffolds remained unassigned and 76 Mb of the AL8/78 BNG contigs were devoid of aligned super-scaffolds.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
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
“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 nine-figure agreement will provide the Sultanate of Oman with sovereign control over its digital infrastructure and help MB support the country’s development goals, executives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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
Because these names were long, and because they used uncommon letters and combinations like F and MB, they stood out.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
"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
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
Under his guidance I produced a paper which served as a thesis for my M.B. degree.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
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