ABB

n. yarn for warp (yarn threaded lengthways in a loom)

ABB is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:ABB Asea Brown Boveri, a multinational corporation based in Switzerland specializing in power and automation technologiesABB GroupABB Records, a record labelABB Grain, Australian Barley BoardAbu Bakar Bashir, the leader of Indonesian Mujahideen CouncilAfrican Blood Brotherhood, a former radical black liberation group in the United StatesAkron and Barberton Belt RailroadAlex Boncayao Brigade, a Philippine terrorist organizationThe Allman Brothers Band, a American southern rock/jam band formed in 1969"Anybody but Bush", an informal political movement during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, formed in opposition to incumbent George W. BushASEA Brown Boveri, former name of the ABB Group (see above)IATA airport code for RAF Abingdon, a Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, EnglandIbb (or Abb) (Arabic: إب) a city in Yemen,ABB de La Paz, a bolivian second division soccer team
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An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word "abbreviation" can itself be represented by the abbreviation "abbr." or "abbrev."
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Noun
1. an urban hit squad and guerrila group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s
(synonym) Alex Boncayao Brigade, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB
(hypernym) terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
(classification) Philippines, Republic of the Philippines

ill., illust., illustration, picture which illustrates a book or other work

(n.)
Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.