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. Artists and entertainers * Sal Abruscato (born 1970), American drummer * Silvio Sal Buscema (born 1936), American comic book artist * Sal Governale (born 1968), American comed ...

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

Places

Sal, Cape Verde Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic ...

, 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 Shabestar County ( fa, شهرستان شبستر) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran ...

, a village in East Azerbaijan Province * Cay Sal, a small island between Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas *

Sal Glacier Sal Glacier () is a glacier, long, flowing north between Salen Mountain and Mount Bergersen in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named Sal ...

, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica * Sal River (India), Goa *

Sal (Russia) The Sal () is a river on the Black Sea–Caspian Steppe of southern Russia, a left tributary to the river Don. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .''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 somet ...

, 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, or SAL * Salivary lipocalin, or SAL, the pig major urinary protein 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. Soci ...

, 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 academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership ...

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 likelih ...

, or SAL, in microbiology

Transportation

Seaboard Air Line Railroad The Seaboard Air Line Railroad , which styled itself "The Route of Courteous Service," was an American railroad which existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime rival, t ...

, 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, or SAL, a former passenger line *

Amílcar Cabral International Airport Amílcar Cabral International Airport , also known as Sal International Airport, is the main international airport of Cape Verde. The airport is named after the revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral. It is located two km west-southwest from Espa ...

, 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 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- ...

, 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, or SAL * Semi-active laser, 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 ...

(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 l ...

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 co ...

, 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 d ...

, 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 co ...

, or SAL, to developing countries * Surface Air Lift/

Surface Air Lifted Surface Air Lifted (SAL) is a postal service used to send international mail items. Thirty-nine postal authorities provide this service. It is a cost-effective international mail. At first SAL mail is processed and transported by surface in the ...

, or SAL, a postal classification

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