Cal

Cal may refer to:

• CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language used within MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding group to describe MPEG video decoders
• Client Access License, a proprietary software license distributed by software companies such as Microsoft to allow clients to connect to its server software and use the software's services.
• cal (Unix), a standard program on Unix that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year
• Cal (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty, about a young Irish Catholic named Cal involved with the IRA
• "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• Cal (film), a 1984 film based on a novel written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script
• Çal, a district (and town as its center) in Denizli Province in southwest Turkey renowned for its Çalkarası grapes and wines
• Calanthe, an orchid genus
• Calcium hydroxide, the "lime" or "cal" used to make corn into "nixtamal" in Native American and Mesoamerican cooking (cal -muerta- in Spanish)
• caliber, a measurement of the interior diameter of a tube, often in reference to rifles or pistols
• California, United States
  • Cal Look, any aircooled Volkwagen that has been modified in a style that originated in California in the late 1960s
  • Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957
  • University of California, Berkeley, nicknamed Cal, the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system
• calorie, unit of energy
• Music from 'Cal', Mark Knopfler's soundtrack album for the 1984 film Cal
• Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code

CAL may refer to:

• Café au lait spot, a pigmented birthmark
• Cakewalk Application Language (CAL), a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software
• CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel
• CAL (Joss family), programming language
• CAL (Quark Framework), programming language
• CAL (software) (Command Application Launcher), an application launcher for Microsoft Windows
• ClearCase Automation Library, a programming interface of IBM Rational ClearCase
• University of California, Berkeley, a public University in California
• Calipatria State Prison in California, United States
• Campbeltown Airport, IATA airport code
• Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States
• Capital allocation line, a graph created by investors to measure the risk of risky and risk-free assets
• Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture
• Center for Army Leadership, a subordinate organization of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
• Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg
• China Airlines, ICAO airline code
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as "chronic airway limitation" (CAL)
• Client Access License, operating systems and software licence scheme
• Continental Airlines, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL"
• Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency principally aimed at allowing educational institutions to use copyright material for educational purposes at a single annual cost
• Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league
• Electronic learning, also called "computer-assisted learning" or "computer aided learning"
• FN CAL, a Belgian assault rifle made by Fabrique Nationale
• Charlotte Abigail Lux, a character, mostly referred to by her initials, in the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"
• Cincinnati Academic League (GCAL), a high school quiz bowl league
• Cray Assembly Language

Other

• 40 Cal., a rapper from Harlem, born Calvin Alan Byrd in New York City, United States
• Judge Cal, a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD

See also

• Calvin (disambiguation)
• Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom, began as the charter arm of British Caledonian.
• Caribbean Airlines, the national airlines of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamacia