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, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality Stub network, in computer networking, a section of network with only one exit router to other networks Test stub, one type of test doubles (along with mock objects) in software testing People Given name or nickname Stub Brown (1870–1938), American baseball player Stubb Ross (died 1987), Canadian airline executive Christopher B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, (1931–1995), barbecue restaurateur and chef, and musician Stub Wiberg (1875–1929), Norwegian actor Surname Alexander Stubb (born 1968), Finnish politician Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet Hans Stubb (1906–1973), German soccer player Jens Stub (1764–1819), Norwegian politician 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 See also Stubbe, a surname Stubble (disambiguation) Stubbs (disambiguation) Lists of people by nickname