Cal or CAL may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Cal (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty
  • "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
  • Cal (1984 film), an Irish drama starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren
  • Cal (album), the soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler
  • Cal (2013 film), a British drama
  • Judge Cal, a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD

Aviation

  • Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom
  • Campbeltown Airport IATA airport code
  • China Airlines ICAO airline code
  • Continental Airlines, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL"
  • CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel

Organizations and businesses

  • CAL Bank, a commercial bank in Ghana
  • Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957
  • Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture
  • Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg
  • Coalition of African Lesbians, a non-profit organisation based in South Africa
  • Colorado Association of Libraries, professional association in Colorado
  • Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency
  • Columbia Alternative Library, an American publishing house

People

  • Cal (given name), a list of people
  • Cal (surname), a list of people
  • Cal (footballer) (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
  • John Calipari (born 1959), American basketball coach often called "Coach Cal" or "Cal"

Places

  • a short form of the state of California
  • Cal Islet, in the Madeira Islands Archipelago of Portugal
  • Çal, a district and town in southwest Turkey
  • University of California, Berkeley, often shortened to "Cal"
  • California Golden Bears, UC Berkeley's intercollegiate athletic program

Science and math

  • Calanthe, an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture
  • Calcium hydroxide, also called cal
  • Caliber, firearm barrel measurement
  • abbreviation for calorie, a unit of energy
  • (archeological) abbreviation of 'calendar' (before 1950), or 'calibrated' (after 1950), for a year as identified by radiocarbon dating (i.e. calBCE 3000, cal. 3600 BC)
  • Cold Atom Laboratory, an instrument to research Bose-Einstein Condensates on the International Space Station

Software

  • C/AL, a programming language used with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
  • Cakewalk Application Language, a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software
  • CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language
  • Cal (application), a former calendar app by Any.do
  • cal (command), a program on various operating systems that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year
  • CAL (programming language), a programming language based on JOSS
  • Client access license, operating systems and software license scheme
  • Cray Assembly Language, included with the Cray Operating System

Sports

  • Cape Ann League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States
  • Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States
  • Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league

Other uses

  • Calipatria State Prison, California, United States
  • Capital allocation line, a graph to measure risk
  • Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code
  • FN CAL, an assault rifle made by the Belgian firm FN (Fabrique Nationale)
  • Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league
  • Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, an online dictionary and text collection hosted by the Hebrew Union College

See also

  • CALS (disambiguation)