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'CB' (or derivative) may refer to:

Contents

Architectural/engineering usage

Business usage

Geo-political usage

Military usage

Popular culture

Science/medical usage

Sports usage

Honours System

Architectural/engineering usage

★ Block coefficient (Cb), determining fullness of ship's hull.

★ Chrysler Building, a skyscraper in New York City, New York.

★ Concrete Block, also cinder block, clinker block, or foundation block [US], Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) [US], breeze block [UK].

Business usage

★ Carte Bancaire, a bank card brand.

★ Cell Broadcast in GSM networks.

★ IATA airport code for ScotAirways (CB).

Geo-political usage

★ Cambodia, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram

★ Cambridge, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office (see list of UK areas). This is sub-divided into numbered districts (see list of UK districts). These are further sub-divided into individual premises or small groups of premises.

★ Children's Bureau within the Administration For Children and Families of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

★ Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, a scholarship for youth exchange between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany.

★ IATA airport code for ScotAirways (CB).

Military usage

★ ''Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath'', title conferred by the British and Commonwealth orders and decorations.

★ "Confined to Barracks", acronym in use by various armed forces.

★ Construction Battalions, the United States Navy units responsible for constructing airstrips and roadways (see also Seabee).

★ CB-series of ''Large Cruisers'', retired US Navy hull classification symbol.

Popular culture

★ Carball, an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod.

★ Citizens' band radio.

★ ''Coffee-bitch'', used in many offices as an irreverent form of the term gofer.

★ Cold beer, commonly used by fraternity members in the Southeastern United States.

★ Corned beef.

★ Cowboy Bebop, an anime and manga popular in Japan and the United States, often credited with significantly broadening the popularity of anime in the United States.

★ Chris Brown, an R&B artist

Science/medical usage

★ Cannabinoids, a group of substances that bind to animal cannabinoid receptors.

★ Columbium, an obsolete abbreviation (now known as niobium).

★ Critical bands, the frequency bandwidths of human auditory filters.

★ Cumulonimbus cloud (''Cb'')

Sports usage

★ Centre-back, a defensive position in football (soccer).

★ Cornerback, a position in American football.

Honours System

Companion of the Bath