AB may mean:

• One of the human blood types in the ABO blood group system
• AB (food), a takeaway meal popular in Adelaide
• Aberdeen, a British post code
• "Able-Bodied", as used by some members of the disabled community
• Able Seaman
• Aharonov-Bohm effect arising in a certain experiment of quantum mechanics.
• Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
• Air Berlin, IATA code
• Airman Basic, the lowest rank in the United States Air Force.
• Aitareya Brahmana
• Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
• Alberta, a Canadian province (postal code)
• Abscesses caused by injections, especially heroin injection
• Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
• Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts
• Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
• AB-Aktion, short for Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II

Ab may mean:

• Ab is a Dutch name.
• Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), the Egyptian concept of the heart-soul
• Abdominal muscles
• Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation," similar to AG, Ltd or Inc, as used in Finland
• Antibody, a medical abbreviation
• Av (month), a month in the Hebrew calendar
• Category of abelian groups
• AB. Arathi Basin from World of Warcraft MMORPG.

ab may mean:

• Abkhazian language (ISO 639)
• The ApacheBench command line tool

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