Opal (disambiguation)

An opal is a gemstone.

Opal may also refer to:

People

• Opal (given name)
• Opal Hill (1892–1981), American professional golfer
• Opal Whiteley (1897-1992), American nature writer and diarist
• The Opals, traditional nickname of the Australia women's national basketball team

Fictional characters

• Opal Koboi One of the main antagonists of the Artemis Fowl book series
• Opal Cortlandt, a long-running character on the soap opera All My Children
• Opal (EastEnders) a fictional character on the BBC soap opera EastEnders

Places

• Opal, Virginia
• Opal, Wyoming
• Opal, Alberta, Canada
• Upal, also known as Opal, a town in Xinjiang, China
• Opal Cone, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
• Opal Hills, Jasper National Park, Canada
• Opal City, a fictional city in the "DC" universe — home to Starman, Elongated Man, and many other heroes; notable for its Art Deco architecture

Research facilities

• Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor, a scientific facility in Sydney, Australia
• OPAL detector, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN

Computing

• OPAL (software) (Open Physics Abstraction Layer), a real-time physics engine
• OPAL, a LAMP (software bundle)-like software bundle used in Oracle/PHP/Apache/Linux
• Opal programming language, developed at the Technical University of Berlin
• Open Phone Abstraction Library (OPAL), a fork of the H323plus project supporting H.323, SIP, IAX2
• Opal Storage Specification, a storage specification developed by the Trusted Computing Group

In the military

• HMS Opal, two ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Opal (PYc-8), a United States Navy patrol vessel during World War II
• Opal (armoured personnel carrier), Polish vehicle

Other

• Opal card, a smart card used on Sydney's transport network
• Opal (fuel), a brand of petrol produced by BP Australia
• Hurricane Opal, a devastating hurricane in 1995
• In classical genetics, opal was the name of the stop codon UGA
• OPAL pipeline, a natural gas pipeline in Germany
• Opal Telecom, a business broadband and telephone provider in the UK
• Opal (band), a 1980s rock band from Los Angeles, USA
• Open Air Laboratories Network (OPAL) a partnership initiative throughout England that aims to get the public more involved with nature through a range of local and national projects
• Opal (butterfly), common name for the butterfly genus, Chrysoritis
• Opal phytolith, ("plant stone") is a rigid microscopic body that occurs in many plants
• Opal Tower (Leeds), a skyscraper in Leeds, UK
• The Opal, a journal written by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum c. 1851
• The Opal (annual), an annual gift book (1844-1849)

See also

• Opel (disambiguation)