Owl (disambiguation)

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Owl can refer to

• Owl, any one of about 220 species of mainly nocturnal birds of prey
• Owl, the Winnie the Pooh character
• Owl, a villain in the Marvel Universe
• Owl class. South Devon Railway 0-4-0 steam locomotives
• Owls, the indie-rock band from Chicago
• The Owls, the nickname of Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
• Owl, an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
• The Owl edition of the Nordisk familjebok encyclopedia
• A character from The Owl and the Nightingale, a 13th century poem

OWL is an acronym for

• Web Ontology Language, a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web.
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector.
• Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland.
• Official Tournament and Club Word List, the National Scrabble Association's official word authority for tournament Scrabble in North America.
• Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university Writing Center.
• Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the fictional Harry Potter series.
• Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ, with versions for grades K-2, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 and adult.
• Obfuscated Weird Language, an esoteric programming language based on FALSE and Forth.
• Open Wall Linux, a hardened linux distribution.
• Office Workstations Limited, the maker of the pioneering Guide hypertext program.
• Ostwestfalen-Lippe, an area in the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.