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 program that acts as a temporary replacement for a remote service or object
  • 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)