Stub

Last updated January 07, 2026

Stub or Stubb may refer to:

Shortened objects and entities

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
Stub (stock), the portion of a corporation left over after most but not all of it has been bought out or spun out
Ticket stub, the portion of an admissions ticket that is retained by the ticket holder
Cheque (check) stub, retained in the chequebook as a record of the cheques issued

Stub (distributed computing), a program that acts as a temporary replacement for a remote service or object
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

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

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
Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub (1783–1816), Danish painter
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

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