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

Personal name

* Sal (name), 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, 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, an automated character

Science

* Sal (tree) (''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 British historical and archaeological learned society *

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 SAL - Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira was an air taxi operator based in Luanda, Angola. History Founded in 1992, by a partnership between TAAG and Endiama, for light civil aviation in Angola, such as air taxi and other activities. It had 64 fli ...

, 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, 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 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, 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 ...