APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

Science and technology

* 132524 APL, an asteroid *

Abductor pollicis longus muscle In human anatomy, the abductor pollicis longus (APL) is one of the extrinsic muscles of the hand. Its major function is to abduct the thumb at the wrist. Its tendon forms the anterior border of the anatomical snuffbox. Structure The abductor ...

, in the human hand * Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia *''

Applied Physics Letters ''Applied Physics Letters'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications ...

'', a physics journal *

Nampula Airport Nampula Airport is an airport in Nampula Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique. With a population of 743,125 (2017 census), it is the third-largest city in Mozambique after Maputo and Matola. The city is locat ...

(IATA airport code: APL), in Mozambique

Computers

* .apl, the file extension of the

Monkey's Audio Monkey's Audio is an algorithm and file format for lossless audio data compression. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, Vorbis, a ...

metadata file *

AMD Performance Library Framewave (formerly AMD Performance Library (APL)) is computer software, a high-performance optimized programming library, consisting of low level application programming interfaces (APIs) for image processing, signal processing, JPEG, and vide ...

, renamed Framewave, a computer compiler library *

APL (programming language) APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent mo ...

, an array-based programming language ** APL (codepage), the character set for programming in APL * Address Prefix List, a DNS record type *

Address programming language The Address programming language (russian: Адресный язык программирования uk, Адресна мова програмування) is one of the world's first high-level programming languages. It was created in 1955 by ...

, an early high-level programming language developed in the Soviet Union * Advanced Physical Layer, an extension of Ethernet 10BASE-T1L for field devices * Alexa Presentation Language, a language for developing

Amazon Alexa Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesiser named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio ...

skills

Software licences

Adaptive Public License The Adaptive Public License (APL) is an open-source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative. The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the ...

, an Open Source license from the University of Victoria, Canada *

AROS Public License The AROS Public License (APL) is software license which is primarily used for distribution of the AROS Research Operating System software project. Version 1.1 is based on the text of Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License (MPL) ...

, a license of AROS Research Operating System *

Arphic Public License Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. (, aka.: Arphic Technology (文鼎科技)) is a type foundry based in Taiwan (Republic of China), founded in May 1990. Fonts Arphic PL Fonts Arphic Technology is the creator of the Arphic PL Fonts (where "PL" means " ...

, a free font license

Organizations

APL (shipping company) APL, formerly called American President Lines Ltd., is an American container shipping company that is a subsidiary of French shipping company CMA CGM. It operates an all-container ship fleet, including 9 U.S. flagged container vessels. In 1938, ...

, a Singapore-based container and shipping company * Aden Protectorate Levies, a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate * Advanced Production and Loading, a Norwegian marine engineering company formed in 1993 *

Afghanistan Premier League The Afghanistan Premier League (APL) ( ps, ; fa, ), officially Gulbahar Afghanistan Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a Twenty20 cricket franchise tournament run by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), held in the United Arab Emirat ...

, an Afghan Twenty20 cricket league *

Afghan Premier League The Afghan Premier League (APL), also known as Rahmani Foundation Afghan Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional men's soccer league run by the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF). It is the country's primary competition for t ...

, a men's football league in Afghanistan *

American Party of Labor The American Party of Labor is an American anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party founded in 2008. The party aims to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat and a commonly owned publicly planned economy for the future goal of ...

, a Marxist-Leninist anti-revisionist party in the US *

American Patriot League The American Patriot League (APL) is a planned professional American football minor league, which is owned by ''The World Professional Football Association'', a single entity corporation, that will manage the business of the APL. It was initial ...

, a proposed American football spring league *

American Premiere League The American Premiere League (APL) is a Twenty20 cricket league based in the United States. The first league was scheduled to take place between October 6 and October 24, 2009, which was later postponed. The management revamped the brand in 2020 ...

, a Twenty20 cricket league in the US *

American President Lines APL, formerly called American President Lines Ltd., is an American container shipping company that is a subsidiary of French shipping company CMA CGM. It operates an all-container ship fleet, including 9 U.S. flagged container vessels. In 1938, ...

, a container transportation and shipping company *

American Protective League The American Protective League (1917-1919) was an organization of private citizens sponsored by the United States Department of Justice that worked with Federal law enforcement agencies during the World War I era. Its mission to identify suspected ...

, a World War I-era pro-war organization *

Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland. It is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and emplo ...

, at Johns Hopkins University *

Association of Pension Lawyers The Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) is a group of more than 1,100 lawyers who practise pension law in the UK. It is a non-profit making organisation and has no connection with the Law Society. Founded in 1984, it represents a forum by which ...

, UK *

Aurora Public Library (disambiguation) Aurora Public Library may refer to: Canada * Aurora Public Library (Ontario) United States * Aurora Public Library (Colorado), library district *Aurora Public Library (Illinois) *Aurora Public Library (Indiana) The Aurora Public Library was first ...

Australian Professional Leagues The Australian Professional Leagues, commonly abbreviated to the APL, and sometimes referred to as the A-Leagues, are the governing body for the A-League Men, A-League Women, A-League Youth and E-League. Since their formation, they have been m ...

, an Australian soccer governing body *

Irish Anti-Partition League The Irish Anti-Partition League (APL) was a political organisation based in Northern Ireland which campaigned for a united Ireland from 1945 to 1958. Foundation Prior to the establishment of the League, there had been no rank-and-file organis ...

, a Northern Ireland political organisation

Other uses

* apl.de.ap (born 1974), pseudonym of Allan Pineda Lindo, Filipino-American musician * Auxiliary Personal Living, a US Navy hull classification for barracks craft; see {{disambiguation