SL may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

SL (rapper) Harlee Bashir Laguda Milne (born 3 September 2001), known professionally as SL, is a British rapper. Early life Harlee Bashir Laguda Milne was born on 3 September 2001 in Peckham, London, England. He was later raised in Thornton Heath, London d ...

, a rapper from London * ''

Second Life ''Second Life'' is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user created content within a multi player online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Fra ...

'', a multi-user 3D virtual world *

Sensei's Library Sensei's Library (commonly referred to as SL among Go-players) is an Internet website and wiki A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki conta ...

, an Internet site dedicated to the game of Go *

Subdominant leittonwechselklänge Parallel and counter parallel chords are terms derived from the German (''Parallelklang'', ''Gegenparallelklang'') to denote what is more often called in English the "relative", and possibly the "counter relative" chords. In Hugo Riemann' ...

Leica SL The Leica SL (Typ 601) is a full-frame mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera announced by Leica Camera AG on 20 October 2015. The SL is promoted as a camera system for professional applications. Beside the Leica S-System, the Leica SL-System ...

, a mirrorless system camera by Leica Camera AG

Business and organizations

Sociedad Limitada A private limited company is any type of business entity in "private" ownership used in many jurisdictions, in contrast to a publicly listed company, with some differences from country to country. Examples include the '' LLC'' in the United Sta ...

, the Spanish version of a private limited company

Politics

* Serbian Left (''Srpska levica''), a political party in Serbia *

Stronnictwo Ludowe The People's Party (''Stronnictwo Ludowe'', SL) was a Polish political party, active from 1931 in the Second Polish Republic. An agrarian populist party, its power base was mostly farmers and rural population. In 1931 it was created from the merg ...

, a defunct Polish political party * Soyons Libres, a French political party

Transportation and vehicles

SL Corporation SL Corporation (hangul:에스엘코포레이션) is a multinational automotive components manufacturing company headquartered in Gyeongsan, South Korea. It has manufacturing plants in Asia-Pacific, India, Europe, and the United States. Annual tur ...

, a Korean auto parts company *

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais Rio-Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais S/A was a regional airline headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,"World Airline Directory." ''Flight International''. March 30, 1985112" Retrieved on July 23, 2009. operating scheduled services to southern B ...

(IATA code SL), a Brazilian airline *

Salt Lake City Southern Railroad The Salt Lake City Southern Railroad is a short-line railroad operating between Salt Lake City, and Murray, in Utah, United States. The SL began operating on April 19, 1993, as a RailTex subsidiary. Today the SL is a subsidiary of the Utah R ...

(reporting mark SL) *

Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk AS or SL was the public transport administration for bus and ferry transport in Akershus, Norway from 1973 to 2007. SL was organised as a limited company owned by the Akershus county municipality, the City of Oslo, and th ...

, a public transport operator in Akershus, Norway *

Storstockholms Lokaltrafik Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or more formally Aktiebolaget Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (Greater Stockholm Local Transit Company), is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County. It was previously k ...

, the public transport operator in Stockholm, Sweden *

Thai Lion Air Thai Lion Mentari Co. Ltd, trading as Thai Lion Air ( th, ไทยไลอ้อนแอร์), is a Thai low-cost airline, operating with Thai partners as an associate company of Lion Air of Indonesia. The carrier operates from Bangkok's Don ...

(IATA airline code SL) *

Mercedes-Benz SL-Class The Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (marketed as Mercedes-AMG SL since 2022) is a grand touring sports car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz since 1954. The designation ''SL'' derives from the German ''Sport-Leicht'' (English: Sport Light). Initially, the f ...

, an automobile

Trade unions

Association of Social Educators The Association of Social Educators ( da, Socialpædagogernes Landsforbund, SL) is a trade union representing social workers and carers in Denmark. The union was founded by 1979, and was initially affiliated to the Confederation of Professionals i ...

, a trade union in Denmark

Geography

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

, in West Africa, ISO 3166 code *

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

, a state of Germany *

SL postcode area The SL postcode area, also known as the Slough postcode area, is a group of ten postcode districts in South East England, within eight post towns. These cover east Berkshire (including Slough, Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot) and south Buckin ...

of the United Kingdom *

Sungai Long Bandar Sungai Long is a main township in Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. Bandar Sungai Long was designed for a population of 10,000 residents. The majority population in this township are Chinese with a minority of Indians and Malays living in this t ...

, in Selangor, Malaysia

Language

Sl (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

, a Latin-script digraph *

Sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...

, used by deaf persons *

Slovene language Slovene ( or ), or alternatively Slovenian (; or ), is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic language, a sub-branch that is part of the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family ...

(ISO 639-1 code "sl")

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology

* ''

Sensu lato ''Sensu'' is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of". It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law. Commonly it refers to how strictly or loosely an expression is used in describing any particular co ...

'', a term used in taxonomy to mean "in the wider sense" of a definition *

Standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...

, a common measurement for fish * Abbreviation for × ''Sophrolaelia'', an orchid genus

Computing

* sl, a humorous command in some

Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...

-based systems that draws an animation of a steam locomotive, intended to be invoked as a typo of ls *

.sl .sl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Sierra Leone. Request for use by Somaliland In 2020, the Minister of Telecommunication and Technology of the unrecognized state of Somaliland Somaliland,; ar, صوما� ...

, the country code top-level domain for Sierra Leone *

SL (complexity) In computational complexity theory, SL (Symmetric Logspace or Sym-L) is the complexity class of problems log-space reducible to USTCON (''undirected s-t connectivity''), which is the problem of determining whether there exists a path between two ve ...

, a class of computational complexity *

Scientific Linux Scientific Linux (SL) was a Linux distribution produced by Fermilab, CERN, DESY and by ETH Zurich. It is a free and open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This product is derived from the free and open-source software m ...

, a Linux distribution *

Service Loading A Push Proxy Gateway is a component of WAP Gateways that pushes URL notifications to mobile handsets. Notifications typically include MMS, email, IM, ringtone downloads, and new device firmware notifications. Most notifications will have an audi ...

, a variant of WAP push method

Mathematics

, a class of computational complexity * sl (elliptic function), sine lemniscate function *

Special linear group In mathematics, the special linear group of degree ''n'' over a field ''F'' is the set of matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion. This is the normal subgroup of the genera ...

in mathematics, denoted SL_n *

Special linear Lie algebra In mathematics, the special linear Lie algebra of order n (denoted \mathfrak_n(F) or \mathfrak(n, F)) is the Lie algebra of n \times n matrices with trace zero and with the Lie bracket ,Y=XY-YX. This algebra is well studied and understood, and is ...

, denoted

\mathfrak_n(F)

\mathfrak(n, F)

Other uses

Serjeant-at-law A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are writ ...

, a former type of barrister in England and Ireland * '' Sine loco'' in bibliographies means that place of publication is unknown