Associations to the word «Nb»

Wiktionary

NB, interjection. Initialism of nota bene; used in written English to introduce something to be noted.
NB, adjective. Abbreviation of northbound.
NB, adjective. Abbreviation of non-binary.
NB, adverb. Abbreviation of northbound.
NB, noun. (US) (aviation) prefix code for NASA research bomber plane designations.
NB, proper noun. (Canada) Initialism of New Brunswick, a Canadian province.
NB, proper noun. West Nusa Tenggara, a province of Indonesia.
NB, symbol. (element symbol) Symbol for niobium.
NB, abbreviation. (cricket) no ball

Dictionary definition

NB, noun. A soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium.
NB, noun. A Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something; "the margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats