NEB

NEB

neb may refer to:

NEB may refer to:

  • Pseudonym of a well-known Spanish architect from Granada city.
  • Nose in Everyone's Business, a Busybody or Gossip
  • National Enterprise Board, former government body set up in the United Kingdom in 1975 to implement the Wilson Labour government's objective of extending public ownership of industry
  • National Energy Board, a Canadian independent federal agency which regulates the oil, gas and electric utility industries.
  • National Ethics Bureau
  • New England Biolabs, U.S. corporation, produces and supplies reagents for the life science industry
  • New English Bible, a fresh translation of the Bible into modern English directly from the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts (with some Latin in the Apocrypha)
  • North Equatorial belt, a Cloud pattern on Jupiter
  • Nuclear Energy Board (1973-1992), established in Ireland on November 30, 1973 by the Nuclear Energy (An Bord Fuinnimh Núicléigh) Act, 1971
  • Noise Equivalent Bandwidth, a measure of the bandwidth of an electrical filter equivalent to a 'brick wall' filter with infinite attenuation in its stop band.
  • Nudged Elastic Band, a way of exploring reaction paths in computational chemistry.


Entertainment

  • Neb (or Nebuchadnezzar), a character in the novel Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
  • Neb (or Nebuchadnezzar), a character in English translations of the novel Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (in the original French the names are Nab and Nabuchadnasar)

Places

  • River Neb (Awin Neb in Manx), one of the principal rivers on the Isle of Man

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  • Neb — (n[e^]b), n. [AS. nebb head, face; akin to D. neb, Icel. nef, beak of a bird, nose, Dan. n[ae]b beak, bill, Sw. n[ a]bb, n[ a]f, and prob. also to D. sneb, snavel, bill, beak, G. schnabel, Dan. & Sw. snabel, and E. snap. Cf. {Nib}, {Snap},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Neb — (nebraska) neb n. state in the Midwestern United States …   English contemporary dictionary

  • neb — [neb] n. [ME < OE nebb, akin to MDu nebbe, ON nef] [Now Dial., Chiefly Brit.] Chiefly Brit. Now Dial. 1. a) the bill of a bird b) the snout of an animal 2. the nose or mouth of a person 3. a projecting end or point; nib; tip …   English World dictionary

  • Neb. — Neb., Abkürzung für den Unionsstaat Nebraska …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Neb. — Neb., offizielle Abkürzung für den Staat Nebraska …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • neb — /neb/, n. Scot. 1. a bill or beak, as of a bird. 2. the nose, esp. of an animal. 3. the tip or pointed end of anything. 4. the nib of a pen. 5. Obs. a person s mouth. [bef. 900; ME nebbe, OE nebb, c. MD, MLG nebbe, ON nef. See NIB] * * * …   Universalium

  • Neb. — Neb. abbreviation Nebraska …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • neb — (n.) beak or bill of a bird, O.E. nebb beak, nose; face, countenance; beak shaped thing, common Germanic (Cf. O.N. nef beak, nose, M.Du. nebbe beak, O.H.G. snabul, Ger. Schnabel beak, O.Fris. snavel mouth ), of uncertain origin …   Etymology dictionary

  • neb — n. beak of a bird; point, tip; nose (especially of an animal) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • neb — *bill, beak, nib …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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