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

Transportation and vehicles

* SL Corporation, 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, 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, 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'', 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), a class of computational complexity * Scientific Linux, 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

* SL (complexity), a class of computational complexity *

sl (elliptic function) In mathematics, the lemniscate elliptic functions are elliptic functions related to the arc length of the lemniscate of Bernoulli. They were first studied by Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, Giulio Fagnano in 1718 and later by Leonhard Euler ...

, sine lemniscate function * Special linear group 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 former type of barrister in England and Ireland * '' Sine loco'' in bibliographies means that place of publication is unknown