PAL, or Phase Alternating Line, is a colour encoding system for analogue television.

PAL, Pal, or pal may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Pal (album), a 1999 studio 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
  • Parental Advisory label, a warning label used on music with profanity
  • Pal, a character in the animated TV series Arthur
  • PAL, the main antagonist in The Mitchells vs. the Machines

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)

Languages

  • Pal language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
  • Middle Persian language, formerly spoken in Iran (ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 codes: )

People

  • Pal (given name), a list of people with the given name
  • Pál, a list of people with the Hungarian given name
  • Pal (surname), an Indian surname
  • Gadaria (or Pal), an Indian shepherd caste
  • Pål Lydersen (born 1965), a Norwegian footballer
  • Tamara Pál (born 2000), a Hungarian handballer
  • Signature of Jean de Paleologu (1855–1942), a Romanian poster artist

Places

India

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

Elsewhere

  • Pal, Andorra
  • Pal, Iran
  • PAL Stadium, San Jose, California, United States
  • State of Palestine (UNDP short-name in file title and the document code: )

Science and technology

Computer programming and electronics

  • PAL (programming language)
  • PDP-8 Assembly Language, a language used for programming the PDP-8 computer
  • Programmable Array Logic, a type of programmable logic device

Medicine

  • 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

Other uses in science and technology

  • Paleolithic, an archaeological period
  • Permissive action link, a security device for nuclear weapons
  • Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, a class of enzymes
  • Phenyl Amine Library, a library of in vitro release data on monoamine releasing agents

Transportation

Aviation

  • PAL Airlines, Canada
  • PAL Airlines (Chile)
  • Philippine Airlines, Philippines
  • PAL Express, their low-cost brand
  • Pilot-activated lighting, an Airport runway lighting system
  • Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base, Cundinamarca, Colombia (IATA code: )

Other uses in transportation

  • PAL Indonesia, a shipyard company
  • Premier Automobiles Limited, a vehicle manufacturer in India
  • Palmers Green railway station, London, England (National Rail code: )

Other uses

  • Pal, another term for a friend
  • Pal, a dog food brand from Pedigree Petfoods
  • Pals battalion, a type of British World War I army unit
  • Possession and acquisition licence, a Canadian firearms licence
  • Powered access licence, a lifting device licence

See also

  • Pall (disambiguation)