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Rib or RIB may refer to:
In anatomy
- Rib, a bone attached to the spine, in vertebrate animals
- Ribs (food), the cooked meat and rib bones of a food animal
- Rib or costa, the leading edge of an insect wing (See Glossary of entomology terms)
- Rib, angulated vertical line on the stem of cactus
In construction
- Rib (aeronautics), a longitudinal structural member in an aircraft wing responsible for maintaining its curvature.
- Rib, one type of transverse member in boat building
- Rib, any slender molded masonry arch projecting from a surface, particularly as part of an architectural vault
- Rib vault, a type of architectural vault in which the ribs are built first
- The sides of a violin or a guitar
- The sides of a tunnel
Others
- Rib (professional wrestling), a practical joke
- A stitch pattern in knitting
- A tool used for shaping or smoothing pottery
- A type of fabric with closely woven yarn.
Acronyms
- RIB, Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
- RIB, RenderMan Interface Bytestream
- Romanian International Bank
- Routing Information Base
- RIB Software
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain, an archaeological reference book
- Retirement Insurance Benefits, old age insurance provided by the United States Social Security Administration
- Rwanda Investigation Bureau
- Ryukyu Islands Boy Scouts
- Renault Industrie Belgique S.A. / Renault Industrie België N.V., a Belgian plant of the Renault concern
- RIB, Remote Insight Board, an add-on computer server interface supporting Compaq's forerunner of Hewlett-Packard Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) remote system management protocols.
Music
- R.I.B. (album), a 2014 release by German metal band Tankard
- Razed in Black, an industrial music group
- Reign in Blood, an album by thrash metal band, Slayer
- "Ribs" (song) a 2013 song by Lorde from her album Pure Heroine
- Ribs (band) an American space rock/grime band.
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gollark: Plus trigonometry and exponentials are conveniently merged.
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gollark: Anyway, by defining an answer to sqrt(-1) you can attain the complex numbers, which are a very powerful extension to the real number line.
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