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TBN

TBN is the initialism of total base number.

Meaning of total base number

Noun

total base number (plural total base numbers)

  1. A measurement of the basicity of an oil, expressed in terms of the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of oil sample.

Forms of TBN

pluralTBNs

Questions about TBN

What is TBN the initialism of?
TBN is the initialism of total base number.

Words near TBN in the dictionary

  1. tbls.
  2. tblspn
  3. tblspns
  4. TBM
  5. TBMs
  6. TBN
  7. Tbn.
  8. TBNs
  9. TBOI
  10. TBol
  11. Tboli

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: TBN (page history and authors); total base number (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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