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Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

• Stub (stock), the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out
• 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
• Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder

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, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality
• Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks
• Test stub, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing

People

Given name or nickname

• Stub Brown (1870–1938), American baseball player
• Stubb Ross (died 1987), Canadian airline executive
• Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, (1931–1995), barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician
• Stub Wiberg (1875–1929), Norwegian actor

Surname

• Alexander Stubb (born 1968), Finnish politician
• Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet
• Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player
• Jens Stub (1764–1819), Norwegian politician
• 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