APL

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

Organizations

• Advanced Production and Loading, a Norwegian marine engineering company formed in 1993.
• Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule (1946-1991)
• Alliance for Progress and Freedom, Alliance pour le Progrès et la Liberté, a political party in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa
• Amateur Poker League, a U.S. based amateur poker league that feeds into the World Poker Tour
• American President Lines, a Singapore-based container transportation and shipping company
• American Protective League, a WWI era pro-war organization
• American Premier League, A Twenty20 cricket league in United States of America
• Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
• Association of Pension Lawyers - a group of lawyers who practice pension law in the UK
• Australian Premier League, an online football gaming league
• Irish Anti-Partition League

Computer related

• APL (programming language), a computer programming language with specialized array processing capabilities
• Framewave, formerly the APL, the AMD Performance Library, a compiler library for AMD multi-core processors
• apl, file extension of the Monkey's Audio metadata file
• Address Prefix List, a DNS record type

Software licences

• Adaptive Public License - an Open Source license from the University of Victoria
• AROS Public License, license of AROS Research Operating System, formerly Amiga Research Operating System
• Arphic Public License, license of freely available on Debian and Gentoo (Help:Multilingual support (East Asian))

Other

• Abductor pollicis longus muscle, in human anatomy, a muscle in the hand
• Poverty threshold, the section of people who can fulfil their minimum basic needs
• Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia
• Aden Protectorate Levies, a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate
• apl.de.ap, pseudonym of Allan Pineda Lindo, a member of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas
• APL, United States Navy hull classification symbol for barracks craft
• Applied Physics Letters, journal published by American Institute of Physics
• Nampula Airport, Mozambique, from its IATA airport code
• Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Ontario), in Canada
• Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Indiana), in the USA
• Austin Public Library
• APL is the name of an asteroid: 132524 APL
• Average Party Level, a term used in Role Playing Games such as Dungeons & Dragons
• Accreditation of Prior Learning (UK) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.