Mab
Mab, Mabs or MAB may refer to:
Fictional or legendary persons
- Queen Mab, a fairy in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and later works of English literature
- Mab Darogan, a figure of Welsh legend
In science and technology
- Mab (moon), one of the moons of Uranus, named after Queen Mab
- Monoclonal antibody (mAb), a molecular component of the vertebrate immune system and a type of biotechnology reagent and medical therapeutic
- Middle Atlantic or Mid-Atlantic Bight, an unofficial term used by oceanographers for the continental shelf region off the U.S. east coast
- Multi-armed bandit, a problem in probability theory
- Mozilla Address Book
- mAbs (journal), a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2009
In business
- MAB Corporation, an Australian property company
- MAB Paints, an American manufacturer from 1899 to 2007
- Malaysia Airlines, an airline operating under the code MAB.
- Malicet et Blin aka M.A.B., French manufacturer of bicycles, cars, components, and aero engines. (Badged MaB) (c.1890-1925)
- Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne, a French firearms manufacturer
- Mercado Alternativo Bursátil, Spain's alternative stock market
- Mabuhay Gardens, a nightclub in San Francisco also known as The Mab
- Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS), an initiative designed to encourage the Philippine rural banking industry
Organizations
- Metropolitan Asylums Board, operating in London, dealing with the Poor Law
- Metric Advisory Board, set up to aid metrication in New Zealand
- Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, a Brazilian left-wing organization
- Muslim Association of Britain, a Muslim group in the United Kingdom established in 1997
People
- Mab Segrest (born 1949), American feminist writer and activist
- James Mabbe or Mab (1572–1642), English scholar and poet
- Marco Antonio Barrera (born 1974), Mexican retired boxer
- Michael Angelo Batio (born 1956), American guitarist
- Marc-André Bergeron (born 1980), ice hockey defenceman
- Mabel Besant-Scott or "Mabs" (1870-1952), a Theosophist, Co-Freemason and Rosicrucian
- Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (1922-2003), Venezuelan politician
Other uses
- Man and the Biosphere Programme, a project of UNESCO
- Medical Affairs Bureau, a bureau in Taiwan
- Beretta Model 38 (Moschetto Automatico Beretta), a sub-machine gun manufactured in Italy during World War II
- Medical ambulance bus
- Multi-author blog
- mab, ISO 639-3 code for the Yutanduchi variety of the Mitlatongo-Yutanduchi Mixtec language of Mexico
See also
- Mabb., author abbreviation for David John Mabberley (born 1948), British botanist, educator and writer
- Henry Mabb (1872-1961), British-born Canadian politician
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