PAL (disambiguation)

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: )

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

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

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

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: )

Other transportation

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

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