Cal or CAL may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Cal'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty * "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov * ''Cal'' (1984 film), an Irish drama starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren ** ''Cal'' (album), the soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler * ''Cal'' (2013 film), a British drama *

Judge Cal This is a list of characters in the British comic strip ''Judge Dredd'' appearing in '' 2000 AD'', ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' and related publications. They are listed alphabetically by surname, in categories. (Major characters have their own art ...

, a fictional character in the ''Judge Dredd'' comic strip in ''2000 AD''

Aviation

Cal Air International Cal Air International was a charter airline that operated in the United Kingdom between 1985 and 1988. History Cal Air International was initially conceived in early 1982 after the sudden demise of Laker Airways which had left a large gap in ...

, an airline based in the United Kingdom *

Campbeltown Airport Campbeltown Airport ( gd, Port-adhair Cheann Loch Chille Chiarain) is located at Machrihanish, west of Campbeltown, near the tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. The airport was formerly known as RA ...

IATA airport code *

China Airlines China Airlines (CAL; ) is the state-owned flag carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of its two major airlines along with EVA Air. It is headquartered in Taoyuan International Airport and operates over 1,400 flights weekly (inclu ...

ICAO airline code *

Continental Airlines Continental Airlines, simply known as Continental, was a major United States airline founded in 1934 and eventually headquartered in Houston, Texas. It had ownership interests and brand partnerships with several carriers. Continental started o ...

, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL" *

CAL Cargo Air Lines Challenge Airlines IL, formerly CAL Cargo Airlines Ltd. ( he, ק.א.ל. קווי אוויר למטען), is a cargo airline with its corporate headquarters in Shoam, Israel. History CAL was established in June 1976, starting charter operation ...

, a cargo airline based in Israel

Organizations and businesses

* CAL Bank, a commercial bank in Ghana *

Cal Yachts Cal Yachts (also known as Jensen Marine and Cal Boats) was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa, California, headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all ...

, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957 *

Center for Applied Linguistics The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1959 and headquartered in Washington, DC. Its mission is to promote language learning and cultural understanding. Its president and chief executive officer ...

, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture * Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg *

Coalition of African Lesbians The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) is a network that comprises 14 non-profit organizations that are spread across 10 different countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa.{{Cite journal , last1=Ngubane , first1=Musa , last2=Frank , first2=L ...

, a non-profit organisation based in South Africa *

Colorado Association of Libraries The Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) is a professional organization for Colorado's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Arvada, Colorado. It was established in 1893 as the Colorado Library Association. John Cotton Dana was ...

, professional association in Colorado *

Copyright Agency Ltd Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) is an Australian not-for-profit public company that facilitates reuse of copyrighted material by third parties, collecting fees and delivering the payments to the creators. Its business names include Viscopy, Rightsport ...

, an Australian copyright agency

People

Cal (given name) Cal is most commonly a masculine given name (more rarely it can be used as a feminine name, as in the case of Scottish Author Cal Flyn) or a shortened form of a given name (usually Calvin, Callum, Caleb, or rarely a variant of the Irish name Catha ...

, a list of people * Cal (surname), a list of people * Cal (footballer) (born 1996), Brazilian footballer *

John Calipari John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College C ...

(born 1959), American basketball coach often called "Coach Cal" or "Cal"

Places

* a short form of the state of

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

Cal Islet Cal Islet ( pt, Ilhéu da Cal, also: ''Ilhéu de Baixo'') is a small island about south of Porto Santo Island, in the Madeira Archipelago, Portugal. With an area of , Cal is the largest of six islets close to Porto Santo. The highest point is . ...

, in the Madeira Islands Archipelago of Portugal *

Çal Çal is a town and a district of Denizli Province in the inner Aegean region of Turkey. Çal district area occupies a central position in the northern part of its province and neighbors the central district of Denizli to the south-west and the di ...

, a district and town in southwest Turkey

School-related

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, often shortened to "Cal" **

California Golden Bears The California Golden Bears are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Berkeley. Referred to in athletic competition as ''California'' or ''Cal'', the university fields 30 varsity athletic programs and various club te ...

, UC Berkeley's intercollegiate athletic program

Science and math

* ''

Calanthe ''Calanthe'', commonly known as Christmas orchids, is a genus of about 220 species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. They are evergreen or deciduous terrestrial plants with thick roots, small oval pseudobulbs, large corrugated leaves and upr ...

'', an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture *

Calcium hydroxide Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca( OH)2. It is a colorless crystal or white powder and is produced when quicklime (calcium oxide) is mixed or slaked with water. It has m ...

, also called cal *

Caliber In guns, particularly firearms, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel Gauge (firearms) , bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the f ...

, firearm barrel measurement * abbreviation for

calorie The calorie is a unit of energy. For historical reasons, two main definitions of "calorie" are in wide use. The large calorie, food calorie, or kilogram calorie was originally defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of on ...

, a unit of energy *

Cold Atom Laboratory The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is an experimental instrument on board the ISS, which launched in 2018. It creates an extremely cold microgravity environment in order to study behaviour of atoms in these conditions. Timeline The CAL was developed ...

, an instrument to research Bose-Einstein Condensates on the International Space Station

Software

C/AL C/AL (Client/server Application Language) was the programming language used within C/SIDE the Client/Server Integrated Development Environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Formerly known as Navision Attain) and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Cen ...

, a programming language used with

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 product family. The product is designed to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship mana ...

* Cakewalk Application Language, a scripting language used with

Cakewalk The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black Slavery in the United States, slave plantations before and after End ...

Pro Audio software *

CAL Actor Language CAL (the Cal Actor Language) is a high-level programming languageCAL Language Report: Specification of the CAL actor language, Johan Eker and Jörn W. Janneck, Technical Memorandum No. UCB/ERL M03/48, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 9472 ...

, a dataflow language *

Cal (application) Any.do is a productivity platform aimed at task and project management. It is available on mobile, web, and wearables with built-in integrations including calendars, chat applications, and virtual assistants. History Any.do was co-founded by O ...

, a former calendar app by Any.do *

cal (command) is a command-line utility on a number of computer operating systems including Unix, Plan 9, Inferno and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year. If the user does not specify any command- ...

, a program on various operating systems that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year *

CAL (programming language) CAL, short for Conversational Algebraic Language, was a programming language and system designed and developed by Butler Lampson at Berkeley in 1967 for the SDS 940 mainframe computer. CAL is a version of the seminal JOSS language with a number o ...

, a programming language based on JOSS *

Client access license A client access license (CAL) is a commercial software license that allows client computers to use server software services. Most commercial desktop apps are licensed so that payment is required for each installation, but some server products can ...

, operating systems and software license scheme * Cray Assembly Language, included with the

Cray Operating System The Cray Operating System (COS) is a Cray Research operating system for its now-discontinued Cray-1 (1976) and Cray X-MP supercomputers. It succeeded the Chippewa Operating System (shipped with earlier Control Data Corporation CDC 6000 series a ...

Sports

Cape Ann League The Cape Ann League (CAL) is a high school athletic conference in District A of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association. The league is based mainly on or around Cape Ann, a small cape on the North Shore of Massachusetts Member s ...

, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States *

Cape-Atlantic League The Cape-Atlantic League (CAL) is an athletic conference consisting of both public high schools and non-public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County Cape May County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jers ...

, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States *

Cyberathlete Amateur League The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions. It was founded by Angel Munoz on June 27, 1997, in Dallas, Texas. The CPL is considered the ...

, online electronic sports league

Other uses

Calipatria State Prison Calipatria State Prison (CAL) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Calipatria, in Imperial County, California. Facilities Although located about from the center of Calipatria, the prison is within the city limits. Called the lowe ...

, California, United States *

Capital allocation line Capital allocation line (CAL) is a graph created by investors to measure the risk of risky and risk-free assets. The graph displays the return to be made by taking on a certain level of risk. Its slope is known as the "reward-to-variability ratio". ...

, a graph to measure risk *

Carolinian language Carolinian is an Austronesian language originating in the Caroline Islands, but spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is an official language (as well as English) of the Carolinian people. Carolinian is a threatened language according to t ...

ISO 639-3 code *

FN CAL The CAL (''Carabine Automatique Légère'') was a Belgian weapon manufactured by Fabrique Nationale. It was the first 5.56 mm rifle produced by the Fabrique Nationale. It resembled the company's highly successful FN FAL, but was an origina ...

, an assault rifle made by the Belgian firm FN (Fabrique Nationale) * Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league