PAL (disambiguation) explained

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

PAL or Pal may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• 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
• 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, once spoken in Iran (ISO 639:pal)

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), Norwegian footballer
• Tamara Pál (born 2000), Hungarian handballer
• Signature of 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

• State of Palestine (UNDP country code)
• Pal, Andorra
• Pal, Iran
• PAL Stadium, San Jose, California, US

Science and technology

Computer 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
• 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

• Permissive action link, a security device for nuclear weapons
• Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, a class of enzymes

Transportation

Aviation

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

Other transportation

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

Other uses

• Pal, another word for 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, permitting operation of a powered personal lifting device