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PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is a colour encoding system for analogue television.

PAL or Pal may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Pal's, an American fast food chain
  • Pakistan Academy of Letters, a learned academy in Pakistan
  • Parents Action League, an anti-gay organization
  • Police Athletic League, an American youth sports league
  • Police Athletic League of New York City, a youth organization in New York City
  • Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury)

People

  • Pál, a Hungarian male given name
  • Pal (surname), an Indian surname.
  • Pål Lydersen (born 1965), Norwegian former footballer
  • Tamara Pál (born 2000), Hungarian handballer
  • Gadaria, Indian shepherd community also known as Pal or Pal Shari
  • Signature used by Jean de Paleologu (1855–1942), Romanian poster artist

Places

India

  • Pal, Gujarat
  • Pal, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra
  • Pali, Maharashtra
  • Pal State, a former princely state

Elsewhere

  • Pal, Andorra
  • Pal, Iran

Science and technology

  • Permissive action link, a security device for nuclear weapons
  • Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, a class of enzymes
  • Physical activity level, a way of expressing a person's daily physical activity
  • Progressive addition lenses, eyeglass lenses with a gradient of increasing lens power
  • Pyothorax-associated lymphoma, a form of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma associated with chronic inflammation

Computers and programming

  • PAL (programming language)
  • PDP-8 Assembly Language, a language used for programming the PDP-8 computer
  • Physics Abstraction Layer, a physical simulation computer application programming interface
  • PortableApps.com Launcher, in PortableApps.com
  • Programmable Array Logic, a type of programmable logic device

Television, film and music

  • Pal (album), by Indian singer KK
  • Pal (dog), the first dog to play Lassie in film and television
  • Pal the Wonder Dog, of Buster Brown and Our Gang early movie fame
  • Pal, a character in the animated TV series Arthur
  • PAL, the main antagonist in The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Transportation

  • PAL Airlines, a Canadian airline
  • PAL Airlines (Chile), a Santiago-based airline
  • PAL Express, the low-cost regional brand of Philippine Airlines
  • PAL Indonesia, an Indonesian shipyard company
  • Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Republic of the Philippines
  • Premier Autmotobiles Limited, a vehicle manufacturer in India
  • PAL, the National Rail station code for Palmers Green railway station, London, England
  • PAL, the IATA airport code for Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base (Palanquero Airport), Colombia

Other uses

  • Pal, another word for friend
  • Pal language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
  • PAL region, a television publication territory that covers most of Asia, Africa, Europe and South America
  • PAL Stadium, San Jose, California
  • Pal, a dog food brand from Pedigree Petfoods
  • State of Palestine, UNDP country code
  • Pals battalion, a type of British World War I army unit
  • Middle Persian's ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code
  • Parental Advisory label, a warning label used on music with profanity
  • Pilot-Activated Lighting, also called pilot-controlled lighting
  • Possession and acquisition licence, a Canadian firearms licence
  • Powered Access Licence permitting operation of a powered personal lifting device
  • Pain-Assisted Learning

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: PAL (desambiguación) para niños

  • All pages beginning with pal
  • All pages with titles containing "pal"
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