HAL

HAL may refer to:

Aviation

 * Halali Airport (IATA airport code: HAL) Halali, Oshikoto, Namibia
 * Hawaiian Airlines (ICAO airline code: HAL)
 * HAL Airport, Bangalore, India
 * Hindustan Aeronautics Limited an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters

Businesses

 * HAL Allergy, a Dutch pharmaceutical company
 * HAL Computer Systems, a defunct computer manufacturer
 * HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer
 * Halliburton's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol
 * Hamburg America Line, a shipping company
 * Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters
 * Hindustan Antibiotics Limited, an Indian public sector pharmaceutical manufacturer
 * Holland America Line, a cruise ship operator
 * HAL FM, or CHNS-FM, a classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Computing

 * Hardware abstraction layer, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs
 * HAL (software), an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer for Unix-like systems
 * HAL/S, the computer language used to program the Space Shuttle's computers
 * HAL, a Lotus Development Corporation product released in 1986
 * Hackers at Large, a Dutch hackers and security conference
 * Hypertext Application Language, a standard convention for defining hypermedia such as links to external resources within JSON or XML code

Entertainment

 * HAL 9000, a fictional computer in the Space Odyssey series
 * Hal (Japanese band), a Japanese pop band
 * Hal (Irish band), an Irish rock band
 * H.A.L. (G.I. Joe), a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Other

 * HAL (automobile), a car built in Cleveland 1916-1918
 * HAL (gene), which encodes the enzyme histidine ammonia-lyase
 * HAL (open archive) (Hyper Articles en Ligne), a French online research open archive
 * Hybrid Assistive Limb, a powered exoskeleton suit
 * Het Amsterdams Lyceum, a Dutch secondary school
 * Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC, a football club in Bangalore, India
 * Hyperspace Analogue to Language, a semantic memory model
 * Hyundai A-League, an Australian professional association football league