HAL may refer to:

Aviation

Halali Airport Halali Airport is an airport serving the resort of Halali, in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. The resort is near some of the waterholes of the Etosha National Park, and has elevated viewing platforms for observing native wildlife like elephants, ...

(IATA airport code: HAL) Halali, Oshikoto, Namibia *

Hawaiian Airlines Hawaiian Airlines ( haw, Hui Mokulele o Hawaiʻi ) is the largest operator of commercial flights to and from the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the tenth-largest commercial airline in the United States, and is based at Honolulu, Hawaii. The airl ...

(ICAO airline code: HAL) *

HAL Airport HAL Airport is an airport that serves Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Located about 12 km east of the city centre, it has one runway and operates 24/7. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a state-owned defence company ...

, Bangalore, India *

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and defence (military), defence company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. Established on 23 December 1940, HAL is one of the oldest and largest aerospace and defence manuf ...

an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters

Businesses

HAL Allergy HAL Allergy Group is a pharmaceutical company that develops, produces and sells products for allergy diagnostic and allergen immunotherapy (AIT). The research facilities and headquarters are located at the Leiden Bio Science Park, Netherlands. Th ...

, a Dutch pharmaceutical company *

HAL Computer Systems HAL Computer Systems, Inc was a Campbell, California-based computer manufacturer founded in 1990 by Andrew Heller, a principal designer of the original IBM POWER architecture. His idea was to build computers based on a RISC architecture for the ...

, a defunct computer manufacturer *

HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a secon ...

, a Japanese video game developer *

Halliburton Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation responsible for most of the world's hydraulic fracturing operations. In 2009, it was the world's second largest oil field service company. It has operations in more than 70 countries ...

's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol *

Hamburg America Line The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved in its development were prominent citi ...

, a shipping company *

, an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters *

Hindustan Antibiotics Limited Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL),is an Indian Public Sector Undertakings in India, central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India. It is based in Pune, India. It is the fir ...

, an Indian public sector pharmaceutical manufacturer *

Holland America Line Holland America Line is an American-owned cruise line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated ...

, a cruise ship operator *

HAL FM CHNS-FM (89.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The station airs a classic hits radio format branded as ''89.9 The Wave''. CHNS is owned and operated by the Maritime Broadcasting System which also owns sist ...

, or CHNS-FM, a classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Computing

Hardware abstraction layer Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming interface allows all devices in a particular class ''C'' of hardware devices to be acce ...

, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs *

HAL (software) HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer or rather Hardware Annotation Library) is a software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction. HAL is now deprecated on most Linux distributions and on FreeBSD. Functionality is b ...

, an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer for Unix-like systems *

HAL/S HAL/S (''High-order Assembly Language/Shuttle'') is a real-time aerospace programming language compiler and cross-compiler for avionics applications used by NASA and associated agencies ( JPL, etc.). It has been used in many U.S. space projects si ...

, the computer language used to program the Space Shuttle's computers * HAL, a

Lotus Development Corporation Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was "offloaded" to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2- ...

product released in 1986 *

Hackers at Large A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. Though the term ''hacker'' has become associated in popu ...

, a Dutch hackers and security conference *

Hypertext Application Language Hypertext Application Language (HAL) is an Internet Draft (a "work in progress") standard convention for defining hypermedia such as links to external resources within JSON or XML code (however, the latest version of HAL Internet-Draft expired on N ...

, a standard convention for defining hypermedia such as links to external resources within JSON or XML code

Entertainment

HAL 9000 HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's ''Space Odyssey'' series. First appearing in the 1968 film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ...

, a fictional computer in the ''Space Odyssey'' series *

Hal (Japanese band) Hal (stylized HΛL, replacing the Latin "A" with the Greek "Λ" or Lambda) is a Japanese pop band formed in 1996. They have worked with several Japanese pop and rock stars and also have won two Japan Record Awards for their musical arrangements ...

, a Japanese pop band *

Hal (Irish band) HAL are a band from Dublin, Ireland, composed of brothers Dave Allen (vocals/guitar) and Paul Allen (vocals/ bass) and Stephen O'Brien (keyboards, occasional guitars and backing vocals) (drums), who formed in 2003. Biography Hal were signed to ...

, an Irish rock band *

H.A.L. (G.I. Joe) The ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' toyline was introduced by Hasbro in 1982, and lasted to 1994, producing well over 250 vehicles and playsets. The following is a list of playsets (i.e. toys representing static bases of operation such as fortres ...

, a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Other

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited S.C. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Sporting Club, often abbreviated as HAL or HASC, was an institutional Indian association football, football club based in Bangalore. It was named after the company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The club com ...

, football club *

Hyperspace Analogue to Language Semantic memory refers to general world knowledge that humans have accumulated throughout their lives. This general knowledge (word meanings, concepts, facts, and ideas) is intertwined in experience and dependent on culture. We can learn about n ...

, a semantic memory model * HAL, a French online research open archive *

Het Amsterdams Lyceum The Amsterdams Lyceum is a Dutch secondary school combining '' gymnasium'' and '' atheneum''. Both school types prepare students to go to university. It was established in 1917. The Amsterdams Lyceum has around 1100 students, most of whom are fro ...

, a Dutch secondary school *

Hyundai A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

, an Australian professional association football league *

HAL 5 The Hybrid Assistive Limb (also known as HAL) is a powered exoskeleton suit developed by Japan's Tsukuba University and the robotics company Cyberdyne. It is designed to support and expand the physical capabilities of its users, particularly peo ...

, an electrically powered exoskeleton suit *

HAL (automobile) The HAL (or sometimes HAL-Twelve/HAL-12) was a Brass Era car made in Cleveland, Ohio from 1916 to 1918. HAL stands for the initials of the founder—Harry A. Lozier. Harry Lozier stated in June 1915 that "only an accident... prevented the formati ...

, a car built in Cleveland 1916-1918 *

HAL (gene) Histidine ammonia-lyase (EC 4.3.1.3, histidase, histidinase) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''HAL'' gene. It converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid. Its systematic name is L-histidine ammonia-lyase (urocanate-forming). ...

, which encodes the enzyme histidine ammonia-lyase

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