PAL (disambiguation)
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Pal may be:
- a friend or close acquaintance (A person may be a pal or have a pal, either being a personal relationship.)
- the name of a famous dog named Pal, trained by Rudd Weatherwax, who was the first to portray the famous collie Lassie
- PAL, a shortened form of Paladin, a famous Chinese computer game with the official English name The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
- a brand bubble gum sold mostly in Mexico and southern United States
- the AAR Reporting Mark for the Paducah and Louisville Railway
- a Hindu Dhangar Sub-Caste.
PAL may be a three-letter acronym for:
Electronics
- Phase Alternating Line, a television signal encoding system.
- Permissive Action Link, a security device for nuclear weapons.
Computers
- Paradox Application Language, a programming language for the Borland Paradox database.
- Physics Abstraction Layer
- Platform Abstraction Layer, generic
- Platform Abstraction Layer, ZebOS-specific
- Processor abstraction layer
- Programmable Array Logic, a brand of semiconductor programmable logic device introduced by Monolithic Memories
- Public Ada Library
Companies and organizations
- Parents Against Leukaemia
- Peninsula Athletic League
- Philippine Airlines (its ICAO code)
- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
- Police Activities League
- Police Athletic League
Biology and physics
- L-Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase
- Polyanaline
- Panoramic annular lens
- Positron annihilation lifetime
Other
- Parcel airlift
- Physical activity level
- Platform Adaptation Layer
- Portable Audio Laboratory, a portable radio by Tivoli Audio.
- Possession and Acquisition Licence
- Power assisted lipoplasty
- Present Atmospheric Level
- Pressure acid leach
- Process asset library
- Product Area Locator, the first electronic yellow pages service, c. 1979 in San Diego, CA
- Purdue AirLink
- Progressive Addition Lenses
- Prolongs Active Life, alleged as the meaning of a dog food brand, PAL, in the UK.
- The PAL video game region
- P.A.L, German noise / electronic band