Sal, SAL, or S.A.L. may refer to:
Personal name
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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
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Sal, Cape Verde, an island and municipality
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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
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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
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Sal Glacier, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
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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
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Sal (Russia), a tributary of the Don in southern Russia
Arts and entertainment
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''Sal'' (film), a 2011 film about Sal Mineo
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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
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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
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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 homologue
* Society of Antiquaries of London, a British historical and archaeological learned society
* Sterility assurance level, 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, or SAL, the Afrikaans name for South African Airways
* Swedish American Line, or SAL, a former passenger line
* Amílcar Cabral International Airport, also known as Sal International Airport, Cape Verde
* El Salvador International Airport, IATA code SAL
Other uses
* SAL Institute, an engineering college situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
* Sal languages, a family of Tibeto-Burman languages
* Salam Zgharta FC, a Lebanese association football club
* Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, or SAL
* Semi-active laser, a laser guidance technique mostly used in military applications
* Shropshire (Salop), England, Chapman code SAL, in genealogy
* Société anonyme libanaise, or SAL
* Sons of the American Legion, or SAL, a patriotic service organization
* South Atlantic League, or SAL, a minor US baseball league
* Structural Adjustment Loan, or SAL, to developing countries
* Surface Air Lift/Surface Air Lifted, or SAL, a postal classification
See also
* Sall (disambiguation)
* Salle (disambiguation)
* Sally (disambiguation)
* Salo (disambiguation)
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