Sal, SAL, or S.A.L. may refer to:

Personal name

Sal (name) Sal is a given name and nickname, the latter often of Salvatore (name), Salvatore. Artists and entertainers * Sal Abruscato (born 1970), American drummer * Silvio Sal Buscema (born 1936), American comic book artist * Sal Governale (born 1968), ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname

Places

* Sal, Cape Verde, an island and municipality *

Sal, Iran Sar ( fa, سار, also Romanized as Sār; also known as Lār and Sāl) is a village in Rudqat Rural District, Sufian District, Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a ...

, a village in East Azerbaijan Province *

Cay Sal Cay Sal ( es, Cayo de Sal) is a small island in the Cay Sal Bank between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas. It is no longer inhabited. The Bahamas have an agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard to regularly fly over Cay Sal and other islands in the ban ...

, a small island between Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas * Sal Glacier, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica *

Sal River (India) The Sal River is a small river in Salcete, Goa, India. Thought to be the smallest river in Goa. The river opens near Verna and flows in south-western direction for 16 kilometers passing through the villages of Nuvem, Mongul, Seraulim, Colva ...

, Goa * Sal (Russia), a tributary of the Don in southern Russia

Arts and entertainment

* ''Sal'' (film), a 2011 film about Sal Mineo *

Laffing Sal Laffing Sal is one of several animatronic characters that were built primarily to attract carnival and amusement park patrons to funhouses and dark rides throughout the United States. Its movements were accompanied by a raucous laugh that someti ...

, an automated character

Science

Sal (tree) ''Shorea robusta'', the sal tree, sāla, shala, sakhua, or sarai, is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The tree is native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet and across the Himalayan regions . Evolution Fossil evidence from lig ...

(''Shorea robusta''), from the Indian subcontinent *

Saharan Air Layer The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is an extremely hot, dry and sometimes dust-laden layer of the atmosphere that often overlies the cooler, more-humid surface air of the Atlantic Ocean. It carries upwards of 60 million tonnes of dust annually over th ...

, or SAL * Salivary lipocalin, or SAL, the pig

major urinary protein Major urinary proteins (Mups), also known as α2u-globulins, are a subfamily of proteins found in abundance in the urine and other secretions of many animals. Mups provide a small range of identifying information about the donor animal, when dete ...

homologue *

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

, a British historical and archaeological

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an discipline (academia), academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and s ...

Sterility assurance level In microbiology, sterility assurance level (SAL) is the probability that a single unit that has been subjected to sterilization nevertheless remains nonsterile. It is never possible to prove that all organisms have been destroyed, as the likelihoo ...

, or SAL, in microbiology

Transportation

* Seaboard Air Line Railroad, reporting mark SAL * Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira, or SAL, Luanda, Angola, an air taxi operator *

Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa. Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and operated a hub-and-spoke network, serving ten dest ...

, or SAL, the Afrikaans name for South African Airways *

Swedish American Line Swedish American Line ( sv, Svenska Amerika Linien, abbr. SAL) was a Swedish passenger shipping line. It was founded in December 1914 under the name Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige-Nordamerika and began ocean liner service from Gothenburg to New Y ...

, or SAL, a former passenger line * Amílcar Cabral International Airport, also known as Sal International Airport, Cape Verde *

El Salvador International Airport El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), , previously known as Comalapa International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional d ...

, IATA code SAL

Other uses

SAL Institute SAL Education are group of Seven institute in one Campus at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. They were administered by Adarsh Foundation established in 2009. Adarsh Foundation is CSR arm of the Shah Alloys Limited, a major steel production company of ...

, an engineering college situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India *

Sal languages The Sal languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeast India, parts of Bangladesh, and Burma. Alternative names ''Ethnologue'' calls the group "Jingpho–Konyak–Bodo", while Scott DeLancey (2015) refers to it as "Bodo-Ko ...

, a family of Tibeto-Burman languages *

Salam Zgharta FC Salam Zgharta Football Club ( ar, نادي السلام الرياضي زغرتا, lit=Zgharta Peace Sporting Club), known as Salam Zgharta or simply Salam, is a football club based in Zgharta, Lebanon, that competes in the . Founded in 1933 ...

, a Lebanese association football club *

Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory 400px, The above-ground SAL building, seen around 1994. The Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory (SAL) was a linear accelerator facility on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The facility was constructed in ...

, or SAL *

Semi-active laser Laser guidance directs a robotics system to a target position by means of a laser beam. The laser guidance of a robot is accomplished by projecting a laser light, image processing and communication to improve the accuracy of guidance. The key ide ...

, a laser guidance technique mostly used in military applications *

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...

(Salop), England,

Chapman code Chapman codes are a set of 3-letter codes used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Use They were created by the historian, Dr. Colin R Chapman, in the late ...

SAL, in genealogy *

Société anonyme libanaise “''Société anonyme libanaise'',” abbreviated s.a.l., is the French term for a joint stock company in Lebanon. Its main characteristic is the '—the financial involvement of each associate. A joint stock company is an association of funds c ...

, or SAL *

Sons of the American Legion The Sons of the American Legion (SAL) is a non-profit organization of male descendants of men or women who served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I or since December 7, 1941, through a date of cessation of hostilities as de ...

, or SAL, a patriotic service organization *

South Atlantic League The South Atlantic League, often informally called the Sally League, is a Minor League Baseball league with teams predominantly in states along the Atlantic coast of the United States from New York to Georgia. A Class A league for most of its ...

, or SAL, a minor US baseball league *

Structural Adjustment Loan Structural adjustment programs (SAPs) consist of loans (structural adjustment loans; SALs) provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to countries that experience economic crises. Their purpose is to adjust the coun ...