PAL (disambiguation)

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

• The PAL region is one of the major zones related to video game region locking

PAL or Pal may also refer to:

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
• Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury)

Science and technology

• Progressive Addition Lenses, eyeglass lenses with a gradient of increasing lens power
• Permissive Action Link, a security device for nuclear weapons
• Programmable Array Logic, a type of programmable logic device

Medicine, biology, and psychology

• Physical activity level, a way of expressing a person's daily physical activity
• Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, the enzyme which catalyses the de-amination of L-phenylalanine to give (E)-cinnamic acid

Computers

• PAL (programming language), the Pedagogic Algorithmic Language
• Physics Abstraction Layer, a physical simulation computer application programming interface
• PDP-8 Assembly Language, a language used for programming the PDP-8 computer
• PortableApps.com Launcher, in PortableApps.com

Television, film, and music

• Pal (dog actor), the first dog to play Lassie in film and television
• Pal the Wonder Dog, of Buster Brown and Our Gang early movie fame
• P·A·L, a German noise / electronic band
• Pal (album), by KK

People

• Pal (surname)
• Pal (clan)
• Pál, a Hungarian male first name
• Signature used by Jean de Paleologu (1855–1942), Romanian poster artist
• Informal for Palestinian

Places

• Pal, Andorra, a village
• Pal, India, a town in Maharashtra
• Pal, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province
• Pal, a village in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India

Transport

• PAL Airlines, a Santiago-based airline
• Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Republic of the Philippines
• Provincial Airlines, a Canadian company

Other uses

• Pals battalion, a type of British World War I army unit
• Possession and Acquisition Licence, a Canadian firearms licence
• PAL Stadium, a sporting venue named for the Police Athletic League
• Pal, a dog food brand from Pedigree Petfoods
• Middle Persian language ISO 639-2 and 639-3 code
• Informal term for a friend

See also

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