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[band]
BAND or BAND may refer to: [TOC right]
** Places
- Bánd , a village in Hungary - Band, Iran , a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran - Band, Mureș , a commune in Romania - Band-e Majid Khan , a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
** People
- Band (surname) , various people with the surname
** Arts, entertainment, and media
*** Music
- Musical ensemble , a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music - Band (rock and pop) , a small ensemble that plays rock or pop - Concert band , an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments - Dansband , band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience - Jazz band , a musical ensemble that plays jazz music - Marching band , a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors - School band , a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music - The Band , a Canadian-American rock and roll group - _The Band_ (album) , The Band's eponymous 1969 album - "Bands" (song) , by American rapper Comethazine - "The Band", a 2002 single by Mando Diao
*** Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
- Band, nickname of Brazilian television network Rede Bandeirantes - _The Band_ (film) , a 1978 Israeli film - _The Band_ (musical) , a 2017 musical by Tim Firth with the music of Take That - "Band" ( _Not Going Out_ ) , a 2012 television episode
** Clothing, jewelry, and accessories
- Armband or arm band - Smart band a band with electronic component - Microsoft Band , a smart band with smartwatch features from the software giant - Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt - Bands (neckwear) , two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers - Belt (clothing) , a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist - Strap , an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather - Wedding band , a metal ring indicating the wearer is married
** Military
- Bands (Italian Army irregulars) , 19th- and 20th-century military units in the service of the Italian "Regio Esercito" - Female order of the Band , a medieval military order native to Spain - Order of the Band , a medieval military order native to Spain
** Science and technology
- Band (algebra) , an idempotent semigroup - Band (order theory) , a solid subset of an ordered vector space that contains its supremums - Band (radio) , a range of frequencies or wavelengths in radio and radar, specifically: - Frequency band - LTE frequency bands used for cellphone data - Shortwave bands - UMTS frequency bands used for cellphones - BAND (software) , a mobile app that facilitates group communication - Band cell , a type of white blood cell - Bird banding , placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification - Electronic band structure of electrons in solid-state physics - Gastric band , a human weight-control measure - Signaling (telecommunications) : - In-band signaling - Out-of-band - Birds Are Not Dinosaurs, or BAND, a controversial stance on the origin of birds
** Society and government
- Band (First Nations Canada) , the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada - Band society , a small group of humans in a simple form of society - Tribe (Native American) , a tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States
** Other uses
- Rubber band - The Band (professional wrestling) , the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order
** See also
- [Band] - [Band] - Band of Brothers (disambiguation) - Bandage - Banding (disambiguation) - Bandy (disambiguation) - Bend (disambiguation) - Drum and bugle corps (disambiguation) - Herd , a social grouping of certain animals of the same species - Ribbon (disambiguation) - Stripe (disambiguation) - Bands (disambiguation) [geo]