GL, Gl, or gl may refer to:
Businesses and brands
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Air Greenland, IATA airline designator
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Germanischer Lloyd, a classification society
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GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic is an American digital services company providing software product design and development services. It is an independent subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. GlobalLogic has corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Company overview Earl ...
, a Digital Product Engineering Services company
Government and military
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GreenLeft, a Dutch political party
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Green-Libertarian
Green libertarianism is a form of green politics. Alternately, it is a form of libertarianism in which the free market provides environmentally beneficial (or benign) outcomes. Marcel Wissenburg (2009) maintains that proponents of the latter co ...
, a North American political philosophy
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Gwardia Ludowa, a Polish resistance group during World War II
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Grenade launcher
A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially-designed large-caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke or gas warhead. Today, the term generally refers to a class of dedicated firearms firing unitary grenade cartridges. The mos ...
, a military weapon
Language
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Galician language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
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Good Luck, in
Internet slang
Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. An example of Internet slang is "LOL" m ...
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Palatal lateral approximant
The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase letter (not to be confused with lowercas ...
, a digraph in Italian
Miscellaneous media
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Girls' love, an anime and manga jargon term for lesbian fiction
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Golden Lovers, a Japanese professional wrestling team
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Good Luck!!'', a 2003 television drama
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Green Lantern, any of a number of similarly themed DC Comics characters
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Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the third longest-running drama in television in American history. ''Guiding Light'' a ...
'', an American soap opera
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Gurren Lagann'', a 2007 Japanese anime
People
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G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
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Gary Lightbody, lead singer of Snow Patrol
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker. Lucas is best known for creating the ''Star Wars'' and ''Indiana Jones'' franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairm ...
, American film director
Places
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GL postcode area, UK
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Geauga Lake, an amusement park in Ohio, US that closed in 2007
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Gelnica District, Slovakia
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Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach () is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district).
Geography
Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx. 10 kilometers east of ...
, Germany (vehicle registration plate for
Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis)
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Canton of Glarus
The canton of Glarus (german: Kanton Glarus rm, Chantun Glaruna; french: Canton de Glaris; it, Canton Glarona) is a canton in east central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus.
The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German.
The majority of ...
, Switzerland
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Gloucester, a city in the South West of England
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Gorkhaland, the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Duars in north West Bengal in India
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Governor Livingston High School, a high school in New Jersey
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Greenland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)
Science and technology
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.gl
.gl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for Greenland. The domain is available for Internet services worldwide and registrations are handled by ICANN-accredited domain name registrars.
The doma ...
, the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Greenland
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Degrees Gay-Lussac, a measure of alcohol by volume
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General linear group, a concept in algebra
* General linear
Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an Binary operation, operation called the Lie bracket, an Alternating multilinear map, alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow ...
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Gigalitre (or gigaliter), a metric unit of volume
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Glycemic load, an estimate of how much food will raise a person's blood glucose level
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Graphics library, a program library designed to aid in rendering computer graphics to a monitor
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Grenade launcher
A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially-designed large-caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke or gas warhead. Today, the term generally refers to a class of dedicated firearms firing unitary grenade cartridges. The mos ...
, in military parlance
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Gulonolactone
L-Gulonolactone oxidase ( ECbr>1.1.3.8 is an enzyme that produces vitamin C, but is non-functional in Haplorrhini (including humans), in some bats, and in guinea pigs. It catalyzes the reaction of L-gulono-1,4-lactone with oxygen to form L-xyl ...
, an enzyme that produces vitamin C
* Gl, the symbol for Glucinium, the former designation of
Beryllium
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Gauss Law
In physics and electromagnetism, Gauss's law, also known as Gauss's flux theorem, (or sometimes simply called Gauss's theorem) is a law relating the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field. In its integral form, it sta ...
, an important law relating the Electric flux through a closed surface with the charge present inside it.
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OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...
Vehicles
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Geely Emgrand GL, a Chinese compact sedan
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Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, a German full-size SUV
Other uses
* Gay-Lesbian, an alternative term for
homosexual
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to peop ...
people
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General ledger, in accounting
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Gloss (annotation), a brief notation of the meaning of a word in a text
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Leather Union, a former German trade union
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