Band
Appearance
Band or BAND may refer to:
Places
- Bánd, a village in Hungary
- Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania
- Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
People
- Band (surname), various people with the surname
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- Musical ensemble, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music
- Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop
- Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
- Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience
- Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music
- Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors
- School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music
- The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group
- The Band (album), The Band's eponymous 1969 album
- "Bands" (song), by American rapper Comethazine
- "The Band", a 2002 single by Mando Diao
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
- Band, nickname of Brazilian television network Rede Bandeirantes
- The Band (film), a 1978 Israeli film
- The Band (musical), a 2017 musical by Tim Firth with the music of Take That
Clothing, jewelry, and accessories
- Armband or arm band
- Smart band a band with electronic component
- Microsoft Band, a smart band with smartwatch features from the software giant
- Smart band a band with electronic component
- Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt
- Bands (neckwear), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers
- Belt (clothing), a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist
- Strap, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather
- Wedding band, a metal ring indicating the wearer is married
Military
- Bands (Italian Army irregulars), 19th- and 20th-century military units in the service of the Italian "Regio Esercito"
- Female order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain
- Order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain
Science and technology
- Band (algebra), an idempotent semigroup
- Band (order theory), a solid subset of an ordered vector space that contains its supremums
- Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths in radio and radar, specifically:
- Frequency band
- LTE frequency bands used for cellphone data
- Shortwave bands
- UMTS frequency bands used for cellphones
- BAND (software), a mobile app that facilitates group communication
- Band cell, a type of white blood cell
- Bird banding, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification
- Electronic band structure of electrons in solid-state physics
- Gastric band, a human weight-control measure
- Signaling (telecommunications):
- Birds Are Not Dinosaurs, or BAND, a controversial stance on the origin of birds
Society and government
- Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada
- Band society, a small group of humans in a simple form of society
- Tribe (Native American), a tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States
Other uses
- Rubber band
- The Band (professional wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Band
- All pages with titles containing Band
- Band of Brothers (disambiguation)
- Bandage
- Banding (disambiguation)
- Bandy (disambiguation)
- Bend (disambiguation)
- Drum and bugle corps (disambiguation)
- Herd, a social grouping of certain animals of the same species
- Ribbon (disambiguation)
- Stripe (disambiguation)