PB

Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element lead. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Paul's Boutique, a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
• Prussian Blue, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
• PB, an album by Norwegian musician Per Bergersen

Publications

• Performance Bikes (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine
• Playboy, an American men's magazine
• Post-Bulletin, an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota

Television

• Princess Bubblegum, a character from the 2010 animated TV series Adventure Time
• Prison Break, an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
• Puppy Bowl, an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005

Anime-Manga

• Phantom Blood, the first story arc of shōnen manga series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Companies and organizations

• Packard Bell Corporation, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
• Packard Bell, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
• Palladium Books, a publisher of role-playing games
• Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada
• Parsons Brinckerhoff, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP
• PBair, a now-defunct Thai airline
• Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website
• Piranha Bytes, a German video game developer
• Pirate Bay, a file-sharing organization
• Pitney Bowes, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping
• PocketBook International, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand
• Pottery Barn, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain
• ProBoards, an online message board service
• Prosperity Party (Paartii Badhaadhiinaa), a political party in Ethiopia
• Beretta (Pietro Beretta Arms Factory), an Italian firearms manufacturer

Economics and finance

• Payback period, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment
• Performance bond, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor
• Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme
• Price-to-book ratio, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price
• Prime brokerage
• Participatory budgeting, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget

Education

• Brunei Polytechnic, a post-secondary institution in Brunei
• Philosophy and Belief, a school subject
• Project Blogger, an Irish educational initiative
• Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages

People

• Panda Bear (musician) (born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective
• Chris Pontius (born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"

Places

United States

• Pacific Beach, San Diego, California a neighborhood in San Diego, California
• Palm Bay, Florida
• Palm Beach, Florida
• Pine Bluff, Arkansas
• Pismo Beach, California

Other countries

• Paraíba, a state of Brazil
• Port Blair, a town in the Andaman Islands
• Punjab (disambiguation), the name of several locations in South Asia
• Paderborn, town and eponymous district in Germany, known by their vehicle registration code PB
• Považská Bystrica, town in Slovakia, known by its vehicle registration code PB
• CIA cryptonym for Guatemala.

Science and technology

Chemistry

• Lead, symbol Pb, a chemical element
• Polybutylene, a polymer of the substance butylene

Computing and software

• Petabit (Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabits used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
• Petabyte (PB), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabytes which is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
• PowerBook, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple
• PowerBuilder, an integrated software development environment
• PunkBuster, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games

Medicine

• Peripheral blood, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
• Phenobarbital, a barbiturate

Other uses in science and technology

For vehicles, see § Transportation.

• PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
• Picobarn, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics
• Pipe bomb, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material
• Push button, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user

Sports

• Personal Best, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.
• Paintball, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun
• Passed ball, in baseball

Transportation

• Patrol boat, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
• Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
• Irizar PB, a bus coach body

Other uses

• Paperback, a type of book
• Peanut butter, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
• Personal best, an individual's best performance in a given sporting discipline.
• Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods.
• Post box, a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail.
• Powerball, an American lottery game
• Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
• Pro bono, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service

See also

• BP (disambiguation)