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'''STAB''' or '''stab''' can have these meanings:
*The act of [[stabbing]] with a sharp instrument
*Stab, a short form of [[stab jacket]], another word for buoyancy compensator
*Stab vest, a type of [[armour]] designed to resist knife attacks
*[[Stab (music)]], a single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition
*STAB, an acronym for "Store to accumulator B", in some forms of [[assembly language]]
*STAB, an acronym for the [[St. Anne's-Belfield School]], a college preparatory school located in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
*"Stab", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album ''[[There's Nothing Wrong with Love]]''
*[[Pokémon type#Type-specific moves|STAB]], '''s'''ame '''t'''ype '''a'''ttack '''b'''onus, a statistical element in the [[Pokémon video games]].
*''Stab'' is the German language word for "staff", in the sense of an administrative body, especially in military usage. [[Stab (Luftwaffe designation)]], during World War II was the German ''Luftwaffe'' (air force) designation for command aircraft or headquarters units.
*[[STAB boat]], a type of [[US Navy]] boat
*Johann Stab, another way of referring to the Austrian scientist [[Johannes Stabius]]
*[[British Army]] Slang for a [[Territorial Army]] soldier ('''S'''tupid '''TA''' '''B'''astard)
* The [[metafiction|metafictional]] film-within-a-film from [[Scream 2]] and [[Scream 3]]
* [[Symbol table]], a data structure used by a language translator such as a [[compiler]] or [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]]
* "Take a stab at ...", To make an attempt at a given task.
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