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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, Inc. ( ) is a commercial U.S. airline headquartered in Honolulu, and a subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group. It is the largest operator of commercial flights to and from the island state of Hawaiʻi, and the tenth largest ...

(ICAO airline code: HAL) *

HAL Airport HAL Airport is an airport that serves Bengaluru, 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 c ...

, Bengaluru, India *

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian public sector aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Bengaluru. Established on 23 December 1940, HAL is one of the oldest and largest aerospace and defence manufacturers in the world. H ...

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. ...

, 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, is a Japanese video game developer based in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded on February 21, 1980 by Mitsuhiro Ikeda. The company started out developing games for home computers of the era, but has since establishe ...

, a Japanese video game developer *

Halliburton Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second-largest oil service company which is responsible for most of the world's fracking operations. It employs approximately 55,000 people through its hundreds of su ...

's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol *

Hamburg America Line The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-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 Germ ...

, a shipping company *

, an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters *

Hindustan Antibiotics Limited Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAtL) is an Indian 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 first government-owned-drug manufact ...

, an Indian public sector pharmaceutical manufacturer *

Holland America Line Holland America Line N.V. (HAL) is an American cruise line operating as a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Founded in 1873 in Rotterdam, Netherlands as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM), the company operated regular trans ...

, a cruise ship operator * HAL FM, 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 acc ...

, 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 ...

, 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 s ...

, 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 sold to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 sprea ...

product released in 1986 *

Hackers at Large A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals and solves problems by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hackersomeone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break ...

, a Dutch hackers and security conference *

Hypertext Application Language Hypertext Application Language (HAL) is a convention for defining hypermedia such as links to external resources within JSON or XML code. It is documented in an Internet Draft (a "work in progress"), with the latest version 11 published the 10th of ...

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

Entertainment

HAL 9000 HAL 9000 (or simply HAL or Hal) is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in the '' Space Odyssey'' series. First appearing in the 1968 film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', HAL ( Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic C ...

, 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), Paul Hogan ( drums) and Stephen O'Brien ( keyboards, occasional guitars and backing vocals), who formed in 2003. Biography H ...

, an Irish rock band * H.A.L. (G.I. Joe), a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Other

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 World War I, accident... prevent ...

, a car built in Cleveland 1916-1918 *

HAL (gene) Histidine ammonia-lyase (, histidase, histidinase) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''HAL'' gene. It converts histidine Histidine (symbol His or H) is an essential amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. It conta ...

, which encodes the enzyme histidine ammonia-lyase *

HAL (open archive) HAL (short for ''Hyper Articles en Ligne'') is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. Documents in HAL are uploaded either by one of the authors with the consent of the others or by an authorized ...

(''Hyper Articles en Ligne''), a French online research open archive *

Hybrid Assistive Limb The Hybrid Assistive Limb (also known as HAL) is a powered, soft-bodied 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, p ...

, a powered exoskeleton suit *

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 from ...

, a Dutch secondary school *

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Sporting Club (often abbreviated as HAL or HASC) is an Indian institutional multi-sports club based in Bangalore, best known for its association football, football team. It was named after the company Hindustan Ae ...

, a football club in Bangalore, India *

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. New concepts are le ...

, a semantic memory model *

Hyundai A-League A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...

, an Australian professional association football league

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