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Tb vs Tib - What's the difference?

tb | tib |

As nouns the difference between tb and tib

is that tb is tuberculosis (short for Tubercle Bacillus while tib is (medical informal) Short form of tibia.

As an abbreviation TiB is

tebibyte, 240 bytes.

tb

English

Noun

  • (pathology) tuberculosis (short for Tubercle Bacillus)
  • (baseball) The statistic reporting "Total Bases". A single is counted as one, a double as two, a triple as three, and a home run as four bases.
  • (electronics, computing) terabyte

    • Related terms

    * (pathology) Mtb

    Derived terms

    * (pathology) MDR-TB , XDR-TB , DR-TB , DS-TB

    Anagrams

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    tib

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of tibia .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medical informal'') Short form of ''tibia .

    • See also

    * fib

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a working-class woman; a prostitute
  • :* 1964': But this woman was, he thought, no '''tib , no purveyor of holy mutton. — Anthony Burgess, ''Nothing Like The Sun
  • (obsolete) a young girl, a sweetheart

    • Anagrams

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