Stub

Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

 * Stub (stock), the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out
 * 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
 * Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder

Computing and electronics

 * Stub (distributed computing), a piece of work of a greater calculation in distributed computing
 * 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

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
 * 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