Band or BAND may refer to:

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

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 (manga), a 2024 manga series
  • 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

  • Band (surname), various people with the surname
  • Resistance band
  • Rubber band
  • The Band (professional wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order

See also

  • 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)