PB - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

Computers and software:

  • Petabit and petabyte, two units of digital information or computer storage
  • 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:

  • PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
  • Picobarn, a multiple of barn (unit), 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
  • Polybutylene, a polymer

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    Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
    —J.G. (James Graham)