EL, El or el may refer to:

Religion

El (deity) (also Il, uga, 𐎛𐎍 ''ʾīlu''; phn, 𐤀𐤋 ''ʾīl''; he, אֵל ''ʾēl''; syr, ܐܺܝܠ ''ʾīyl''; ar, إيل or ; cognate to akk, 𒀭, ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "deity", or referring (as a proper ...

, a Semitic word for "God"

People

* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist *

El Franco Lee El Franco Lee (January30, 1949January3, 2016) was an American politician who served as a Harris County commissioner from 1985 to his death in 2016. Before becoming a county commissioner, he served as a member of the Texas House of Representative ...

(1949–2016), American politician *

Ephrat Livni Ephrat Livni, also known as el (born 1972), is an Israeli-American artist, writer and lawyer who creates large scale street art projects. Biography Livni wrote for the ''Jerusalem Report'' in Israel and for ABC News in New York. Art career She b ...

(born 1972), American street artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * El, short for

Eleven Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *'' ...

, a fictional character in the TV series ''

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Prod ...

'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in ''

Superman Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publi ...

'' *E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film ''

Road Trip A road trip, sometimes spelled roadtrip, is a long-distance journey on the road. Typically, road trips are long distances travelled by automobile. History First road trips by automobile The world's first recorded long-distance road trip by t ...

Literature

* ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese adult visual novel

Music

Él Records él is an English independent record label based in London that was founded by Mike Alway, later becoming a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records. Their musicians were characterized by a strong English sensibility, as well as the French influence st ...

, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él'' (Lucero album), a 1982 album by Lucero * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from ''Caminando'' (album) * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, performed by Lucía

Other media

* ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel

Science and technology

Computing

* .el, a computer file extension used for Emacs Lisp source code *

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Span ...

, a spin-off project of the Spanish Wikipedia * Erase Line (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence *

Unified Expression Language The Jakarta Expression Language (EL; formerly Expression Language and Unified Expression Language) is a special purpose programming language mostly used in Jakarta EE web applications for embedding and evaluating expressions in web pages. The s ...

, a feature of the JavaServer Pages software technology

Other uses in science and technology

El (crater) El is a crater on Ganymede. It has a small "pit" in its center. Craters with such a "central pit" are common across Ganymede and are especially intriguing since they may reveal secrets about the structure of the satellite's shallow subsurface. R ...

, a crater on Ganymede *

Electroluminescence Electroluminescence (EL) is an optical phenomenon, optical and electrical phenomenon, in which a material emits light in response to the passage of an electric current or to a strong electric field. This is distinct from black body light emissi ...

Electroluminescent display Electroluminescent Displays (ELDs) are a type of flat panel display created by sandwiching a layer of electroluminescent material such as GaAs between two layers of conductors. When current flows, the layer of material emits radiation in the form ...

, a display made with electroluminescent material *

Electrum Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has been produced artificially, and ...

(El), an alloy of gold and silver *

Encephalitis lethargica Encephalitis lethargica is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "sleeping sickness" or "sleepy sickness" (distinct from tsetse fly-transmitted sleeping sickness), it was first described in 1917 by neurologist Constantin von Economo a ...

, a neurological disease *

Equilibrium level In meteorology, the equilibrium level (EL), or level of neutral buoyancy (LNB), or limit of convection (LOC), is the height at which a rising parcel of air is at the same temperature as its environment. This means that unstable air is now stable ...

, the height in the atmosphere at which a rising parcel of air reaches surrounding air of the same temperature *

NIST Engineering Laboratory The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

, a NIST laboratory since 2010

Sport

Eastern League (disambiguation) Eastern League may refer to: Baseball in the United States ''Most recent leagues listed first'' * Eastern League (1938–present), a minor league established in 1923 and renamed Eastern League in 1938, at the Double-A level * Eastern League (1916� ...

, a Class AA League in Minor League Baseball *

Euroleague Basketball Euroleague Basketball is the private company that runs and operates the top continental-wide basketball men's professional sports club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup. It has been org ...

, highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe *

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It ...

, formerly the UEFA Cup, a competition for eligible European football clubs

Transportation

Acura EL The Acura EL is a subcompact executive car that was built at Honda's Alliston, Ontario, plant, and also the first Acura built in Canada. It was also exclusively sold in Canada. The EL is a badge-engineered Honda Civic with a higher level of feat ...

, an automobile * EL, Air Nippon's IATA code * EL,

Ellinair Ellinair was a Greece, Greek airline headquartered in Thessaloniki operating scheduled and charter flights. History The new airline was established on 19 February 2013 and its first flight was operated in February 2014. The name Ellinair is a c ...

's IATA code * EL, Erie Lackawanna Railway's reporting mark * El, shortened name of elevated railway systems, such as the

Chicago "L" The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid tr ...

* El, one name of the elevated railway system on SEPTA, the Market-Frankford

Other uses

* The spelled-out version of the letter L in English * El (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet *

Al- ( ar, ٱلْـ), also Romanized as ''el-'', ''il-,'' and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic, is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed def ...

aka "El-" ( ar, ال, links=no), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names * Estée Lauder Companies, American cosmetics manufacturer * Party of the European Left, a political party *

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

in (EU VAT identification EL) *

Greek language Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Al ...

(ISO 639-1 language code EL) * El, the number eleven in the

duodecimal The duodecimal system (also known as base 12, dozenal, or, rarely, uncial) is a positional notation numeral system using twelve as its base. The number twelve (that is, the number written as "12" in the decimal numerical system) is instead wri ...

system