Sb
antimony.
Sb
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sb.
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abbreviation
SB
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American
abbreviation
s.b.
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American
abbreviation
S.B.
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American
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S.B.
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American
abbreviation
Sb
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British
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sb
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sb.
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Usage
What else does SB mean? Short for snapback, SB is used on social media platform Snapchat for when you want a user to respond back to a snap, or "message."How is SB pronounced?[ es-bee ]
Etymology
Origin of Sb1
From the Late Latin word stibium
Origin of S.B.5
From Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus
Example Sentences
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Of the five elements Sn, Si, Sb, O, Te, which has the most endothermic reaction?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Customized perl scripts were used to identify gene insertions and deletions occurred in the syntenic blocks between Tu3 and Ta3B via detecting whether the orthologues in Bd, Os and Sb exist.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
If a Ta3B gene had orthologues in at least two of Bd, Os and Sb but not on Tu3, a gene deletion was defined to have occurred on Tu3.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
An alloy of Sb and Pb is employed for type-metal as it expands at the instant of solidification.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
Experiment 93.—Sprinkle into a receiver of Cl a very little fine powder or filings of Cu, As, or Sb, and notice the combustion.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
And, since we may go this way only once, why shouldn't sb. like Boies grab all the money he can?
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
The sb. slaisterer, "a slink, an untidy person," is also found.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Woh, wow, sb. evil 1.1; pl. wowȝ 2.41.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
Sat = the poem ‘Christ and Satan,’ in Gr. sb. = substantive.
From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by Hall, J. R. Clark (John R. Clark)
O. N. lǫga, to burn with a flame, Norse lǫga, laaga, to blaze, but cp. the Sco. sb. lowe.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
He also covers Syracuse men's and women's basketball for SB Nation's Nunes Magician, the Big East and other high-majors for Daly Dose of Hoops, and contributes features and columns to Basket Under Review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I think you’ll see Santa Monica benefit and Culver City benefit and Pasadena and Glendale benefit and West Hollywood benefit,” from new housing created through SB 79,” Burton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
A separate IPO would list SB Energy, a midsize solar-power company that has become a data-center builder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
A newly enacted corporate law, SB 2471, changes the powers that corporations, or other artificial persons like nonprofits, are granted by the state of Hawaii.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
From each division draw lines to 8th distance; by their intersections with SB we obtain 80 measurements of 40, 80, 120, 160, &c., feet.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)
He won his first term in the Legislature in 2016, then made his mark the next year when the state passed S.B.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Maria Zamudio grew up in the shadow of S.B.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
They also fear that the magistrate courts—which, under S.B.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2024
According to Aron Thorn, a senior attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project working on the S.B.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2024
A history of the Polish insurrection, published by S.B.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
"Tax dollars at work! 18 hours and counting stuck sb i95," another user griped.
From Fox News ● Jan. 4, 2022
It would take about sb to eight weeks, even after an agreement in principle, to work ou all the technical details.
From Time Magazine Archive
At s the deviation is os; and the number of such deviations is expressed by sb.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
Plainly, now, if we know the number of apertures of the disk, the number of rotations per second, and the distance sb, we can calculate the velocity of light.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
Dan. brodde means "to equip with points," a vb. later developed out of the sb.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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