Usually means: Acid-fast bacillus, a bacterium.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFB: Merriam-Webster
  2. AFB: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. AFB: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. AFB: Collins English Dictionary
  5. afb: Wordnik
  6. AFB: Wiktionary
  7. AFB: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. AFB: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. AFB, a.f.b: Dictionary.com
  10. AFB, Afb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. AFB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. AFB: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. AFB: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFB: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. AFB: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFB: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afb: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFB: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (AFB)

noun:  (military, aviation) Initialism of air force base.
noun:  Initialism of acid-fast bacillus.
noun:  (pathology) Initialism of American foulbrood. [A highly contagious and destructive disease of bees caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae.]

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