List of Acronyms and Initialisms: R - RB

RB

• Rb – (s) Rubidium
• RB – (i) Running Back (football)
• R&B – (i) Rhythm and Blues
• RBAR – (i) Row By Agonizing Row – a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR method.
• RBCI – (i) Radio Based Combat Identification
• RBI – (i) Runs Batted In
• RBOC – (a/i) Regional Bell Operating Company ("Baby Bell")