title: Band
text: 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
  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):
  In-band signaling
  Out-of-band
  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
  
  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)