FromEnglishGreat Britain, taken from the full name of the country,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The reasoning provided by theInternational Organization for Standardization is, “Since name components likeRepublic,Kingdom,United,Federal orDemocratic are used very often in country names we usually do not derive the country code elements from them in order to avoid ambiguity. The name componentsUnited andKingdom not being appro[p]riate for ISO 3166-1, the code GB for the United Kingdom was created from Great Britain.”[1]
GB
- (international standards)ISO 3166-1alpha-2country code fortheUnited Kingdom.
- Synonyms:GBR(alpha-3),UK(exceptionally reserved)
The code includes theSovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
GB
- (computing, formal)Abbreviation ofgigabyte.
2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, inDexerto[2]:For those who aren’t aware, a Nitro Basic subscription costs $3 a month. Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to stream videos in 4K and use emojis in channels. In comparison, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram offer a 2GB file limit.
- (computing, informal)Abbreviation ofgibibyte.
- Synonym:GiB.
GB (pluralGBs)
- (anatomy)Initialism ofgallbladder.
- (informal, pharmacology)Initialism ofgoofball(“barbiturate”).
1965 February 26, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, inTime, volume58, number 8, page82:Goofballs usually produce a quiet drowsiness, but also at times a tense aggressiveness that can be frighteningly unpredictable. Irene's behavior when she is high onGBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in.
- (crystallography)Initialism ofgrain boundary.
GB
- Initialism ofGreat Britain.
- Initialism ofGilgit-Baltistan.
- Abbreviation ofGreen Bay inWisconsin,USA.
- Initialism ofGame Boy.
- (chemistry, military)Initialism ofGerman agent B (US designation for thenerve gassarin).
- Initialism ofGuantanamo Bay.
- (linguistics)Initialism ofGovernment and Binding.
GB
- (Internetslang)Initialism ofGod bless.
GB f
- Acronym ofGeroa Bai.
GB
- Alternativeletter-case form ofGb(“The eighth letter of the Yoruba alphabet”)
- (Latin-script letters)lẹ́tà;A a (Á á,À à,Ā ā),B b,D d,E e (É é,È è,Ē ē),Ẹ ẹ (Ẹ́ ẹ́,Ẹ̀ ẹ̀,Ẹ̄ ẹ̄),F f,G g,Gb gb,H h,I i (Í í,Ì ì,Ī ī),J j,K k,L l,M m (Ḿ ḿ,M̀ m̀,M̄ m̄),N n (Ń ń,Ǹ ǹ,N̄ n̄),O o (Ó ó,Ò ò,Ō ō),Ọ ọ (Ọ́ ọ́,Ọ̀ ọ̀,Ọ̄ ọ̄),P p,R r,S s,Ṣ ṣ,T t,U u (Ú ú,Ù ù,Ū ū),W w,Y y
- (Benin)
- (Latin-script letters)lɛ́tà;A a,B b,D d,E e,Ɛ ɛ,F f,G g,Gb gb,H h,I i,J j,K k,Kp kp,L l,M m,N n,O o,Ɔ ɔ,P p,R r,S s,Sh sh,T t,U u,W w,Y y
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