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'''AB''', '''Ab''', or '''ab''' may refer to:
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==Arts and media==
* ''[[American Bandstand]]'', a music-performance television show
* ''[[Analecta Bollandiana]]'', an academic journal
* [[Ancienne Belgique]], a concert hall in Brussels, Belgium
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==Business==
===Business terminology===
* ''Akcinė bendrovė'', Lithuanian equivalent of an [[S.A. (corporation)|S.A.]] corporation
* [[Aktiebolag]], Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc

===Businesses===
* [[A & B High Performance Firearms]], a defunct sporting firearms manufacturer
* [[AB Airlines]], a defunct British airline 
* [[AB Groupe]], a French broadcasting group
* [[Activision Blizzard]], American holding company for Activision and Blizzard Entertainment
* [[Air Berlin]] (former IATA airline code AB), a former airline operating 1978–2017
* [[Alderson-Broaddus College]], a liberal-arts college in West Virginia, US
* [[Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos]], a Greek supermarket chain
* [[Allen-Bradley]], a brand of industrial control products, manufactured by Rockwell Automation
* [[AllianceBernstein]] (New York Stock Exchange Symbol AB), a US-based asset management firm
* [[American Biograph]] (film logo AB), a former motion picture company
* [[Anheuser-Busch]], a brewing company
* [[Bonza]] (IATA code AB), an Australian airline

==Linguistics==
* [[Ab (cuneiform)]], a written syllable
* [[Ab (Semitic)]], a Semitic word for "father"
* ''ab'', a [[Welsh patronymic]]
* [[Ap (water)]], Vedic Sanskti term for water, surviving as In Persian as Āb

==Occupations and ranks==
* [[Able Seaman (occupation)]], a civilian occupation
* [[Able Seaman (rank)]], a naval rank
* [[Airman Basic]], the lowest rank in the United States Air Force

==Organizations==
* [[Afrikaner Broederbond]], a South African secret society from 1918 to 1994
* [[Aryan Brotherhood]], an American gang

==Places==
* [[Anzab-e Olya]] or Āb, a village in Iran
* [[AB postcode area]], UK, including Aberdeen, Scotland
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* [[Albania]] (WMO country code)
* [[Alberta]] (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
* Air Base, used by the [[United States Air Force]] for overseas bases
* [[Aschaffenburg]] (vehicle registration plate), Germany

==Science and technology==
* [[AB (star catalogue)]] (Azzopardi / Breysacher), a catalogue of Wolf Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
* [[Aggregate base]]
* AB Class amplifier, a classification of electric [[amplifier#Class AB|amplifier]]
* [[Category of abelian groups]] (Ab), in mathematics
* [[ApacheBench]], a command line tool for Apache HTTP Server

===Chemistry===
* [[Alabamine]], a former name of the element astatine
* [[Albite]], a feldspar mineral
* [[Ammonia borane]], a chemical compound
* Antibonding (a.b.), used to describe the character of orbitals in atomic and molecular [[electronic structure]]

===Medicine===
* [[AB blood]], a blood type in the ABO blood group system
* [[AB toxin]], Type III toxin secreted by some pathogenic bacteria
* [[Antibody]] (medical abbreviation)
* [[Rectus abdominis muscle]] (common name abs), a paired stomach muscle

==Religion==
* [[Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept)]], a concept of the heart-soul in ancient Egyptian religion
* Ab., a Hebrew abbreviation related to [[Pirkei Avot]], a compilation of teachings and maxims from the Mishnaic period
* [[Aitareya Brahmana]], an ancient Indian collection of sacred hymns

==Sport==
* [[Akademisk Boldklub]], a Danish professional football club
* [[Argja Bóltfelag]], a Faroese association football club
* [[Aviron Bayonnais]], French rugby union club
* [[At bat]], in baseball statistics

==Transportation==
* [[NZR Ab class]], a New Zealand steam locomotive 
* [[Armed boarding steamer]], used by the UK during World War I for boarding enemy vessels
* AB, a US Navy hull classification symbol: [[List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy#Crane ships (AB)|Crane ship (AB)]]

==People==
* [[AB de Villiers]] (born 1984), South African middle order batsman and wicket-keeper
* [[Adrien Broner]] (born 1989), American Boxer, nicknamed AB
* [[Allan Border]] (born 1955), Australian cricketer, nicknamed A.B.
* [[Antonio Brown]] (born 1988), American football player, nicknamed AB

==Other uses==
* [[Ab (given name)]], a short form of Albert (or occasionally Abraham or Abbott)
* [[Ab (Mandaean month)]], a month of the Mandaean calendar
* AB, a South Australian dish made of hot potato chips, gyro meat and sauces, similar to a [[Halal snack pack]]
* [[Abkhaz language]] (ISO 639-1 language code ab), a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people
* [[Adult baby]], a person who practices paraphilic infantilism
* [[Bachelor of Arts]] (Latin: ''Artium baccalaureus'')
* [[Assembly Bill]], a type of legislation in the US
* [[AB (game)]], a guessing game similar to ''Mastermind''

==See also==
* [[A/B (disambiguation)]]
* [[BA (disambiguation)]]
* [[A-flat (disambiguation)]] ("A{{music|flat}}"), the musical note, scale, or key
* [[Av (month)]], a month in the Hebrew calendar
* [[Amyloid beta]] (Aβ), peptides of amino acids that are involved in Alzheimer's disease 

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