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STUB or STUBB may refer to:
** Shortened objects and entities
- Stub, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk; see pollarding
- Pay stub , a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee
- Stub period , period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon
- Stub road , an unused road junction
- Stub (stock) , the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out
- Ticket stub , the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder
- Cheque (check) stub , retained in the chequebook as a record of the cheques issued
** Computing and electronics
- Stub (distributed computing) , a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing
- Stub (electronics) , a calculated length section of transmission line used to match impedance in transmission lines
- Method stub , a placeholder method for production code
- Stub network , in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks
- Test stub , a test double that returns a particular value
** People
*** Given name
- Stub Wiberg (1875–1929), Norwegian actor
*** Nickname
- Stub Brown (1870–1938), American baseball player
- Stubb Ross (died 1987), Canadian airline entrepreneur
- Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield (1931–1995), American barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician
*** Surname
- Alexander Stubb (born 1968), President of Finland, Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015
- Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet
- Göran Stubb (born 1935), Finnish ice hockey executive and the father of Alexander Stubb
- Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player
- Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub (1783–1816), Danish painter
- Jens Stub (1764–1819), Norwegian politician
- Suzanne Innes-Stubb (born 1970), British–Finnish attorney and the wife of Alexander Stubb
- Sverre Stub (born 1946), Norwegian diplomat
** Other uses
- Stub Place , settlement in Cumbria, England
- Stubb, a character in the novel _Moby-Dick_ by Herman Melville
- Stubb Glacier , an Antarctic glacier named for the _Moby-Dick_ character
** See also
- Stubbe , a surname
- Stubble (disambiguation)
- Stubbs (disambiguation)
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