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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