1. Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli, manifested in fever and small lesions
   "The patient was diagnosed with pulmonary TB";
   - tuberculosis, T.B.
    
2. A unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
   "The data centre had storage capacity measured in TBs";
   - terabyte, tebibyte, TiB
    
3. A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
   "The data centre had several TBs of storage capacity";
   - terabyte

1. A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits
   - terabit, Tbit
    
2. A metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
   - terbium, atomic number 65

Derived forms: TBs

Type of: computer memory unit, infectious disease, metal, metallic element

Part of: apatite, gadolinite, monazite, PB, Pbit, pebibyte, petabit, petabyte, PiB, ytterbite

Encyclopedia: TB, Maryland