CL or cl may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

CL (rapper) Lee Chae-rin (born February 26, 1991), better known by her stage name CL, is a South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she spent much of her early life in Japan and France. She rose to fame as a member of the gi ...

, (born Lee Chae-rin, 1991), singer and rapper, leader of the K-pop girl group

2NE1 2NE1 (, ) is a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment in 2009. The group consists of Park Bom, Bom, CL (rapper), CL, Sandara Park, Dara, and Minzy. Known for their Experimental music, musical experimentation, fashion, and stage pre ...

Creative Loafing Creative Loafing is an Atlanta-based publisher of an arts and culture news and events newspaper/magazine. The company historically published a weekly publication that once had a 160,000 weekly circulation. While Creative Loafing is no longer p ...

, a newspaper publisher

Brands and enterprises

Colgate-Palmolive The Colgate-Palmolive Company, commonly known as Colgate-Palmolive, is an American multinational corporation, multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in ...

's NYSE stock symbol * Companhia das Lezírias, an agribusiness company in Portugal

Computing and technology

* , the command-line C/C++ compiler for Microsoft Visual C++ * .cl, Internet country code top-level domain for Chile * CL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit CX register *

CAS latency Column address strobe latency, also called CAS latency or CL, is the delay in clock cycles between the READ command and the moment data is available. In asynchronous DRAM, the interval is specified in nanoseconds (absolute time). In synchronou ...

, a measure used in computer memory *

Common Lisp Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ''ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018)'' (formerly ''X3.226-1994 (R1999)''). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperli ...

, a programming language *

Common Logic Common Logic (CL) is a framework for a family of logic languages, based on first-order logic, intended to facilitate the exchange and transmission of knowledge in computer-based systems. The CL definition permits and encourages the development ...

, a framework for a family of logic languages *

Control Language The Control Language (CL) is a scripting language originally created by IBM for the System/38 Control Program Facility and later used in OS/400 (now known as IBM i). It bears a resemblance to the IBM Job Control Language and consists of a set ...

, a scripting language for the IBM AS/400 midrange platform

Industry and technology

* CL, the prefix for

Canadair Canadair Ltd. was a Canadian civil and military aircraft manufacturer that operated from 1944 to 1986. In 1986, its assets were acquired by Bombardier Aerospace, the aviation division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc. Canadai ...

manufactured aircraft model numbers *

Caseless ammunition Caseless ammunition (CL), or caseless cartridge, is a configuration of Cartridge (firearms), weapon-cartridge that eliminates the cartridge case that typically holds the Percussion cap, primer, propellant and projectile together as a unit. Instea ...

Organizations

* Catholic League (U.S.), also known as The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights *

Communion and Liberation Communion and Liberation (, often shortened to CL), since 1980 officially Fraternity of Communion and Liberation (), it is an international Catholic movement founded in 1954 by Fr. Luigi Giussani as Student Youth (), with the aim of presentin ...

, a lay ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church

Places

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

's ISO country code *

Province of Caltanissetta The province of Caltanissetta (; or ; officially ''libero consorzio comunale di Caltanissetta'') is a Provinces of Italy, province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 20 ...

's ISO 3166-2:IT code *

Călărași County Călărași () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Călărași. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 285,050 and a population density of 56.02/km2. * Romanians – 94.1% ...

's ISO 3166-2:RO code

Science

Cathodoluminescence Cathodoluminescence is an optical and electromagnetic phenomenon in which electrons impacting on a luminescent material such as a phosphor, cause the emission of photons which may have wavelengths in the visible spectrum. A familiar example i ...

, emission of photons after excitation by electrons * Centilitre (cL), a metric measure of volume *

Chlorine Chlorine is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between ...

, symbol Cl, a chemical element * cl (elliptic function), cosine lemniscate function *

Clifford algebra In mathematics, a Clifford algebra is an algebra generated by a vector space with a quadratic form, and is a unital associative algebra with the additional structure of a distinguished subspace. As -algebras, they generalize the real number ...

, denoted Cl * Confidence level *

Divisor class group In algebraic geometry, divisors are a generalization of codimension-1 subvarieties of algebraic varieties. Two different generalizations are in common use, Cartier divisors and Weil divisors (named for Pierre Cartier and André Weil by David Mumf ...

, denoted Cl *

Lift coefficient In fluid dynamics, the lift coefficient () is a dimensionless quantity that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to the fluid density around the body, the fluid velocity and an associated reference area. A lifting body is a foil or a co ...

(C_L) *

Topological closure In topology, the closure of a subset of points in a topological space consists of all points in together with all limit points of . The closure of may equivalently be defined as the union of and its boundary, and also as the intersection ...

(

\operatorname X

)

Sports

Closer (baseball) In baseball, a closing pitcher, more frequently referred to as a closer (abbreviated CL), is a relief pitcher who specializes in getting the final out (baseball), outs in a close game when his team is leading. The role is often assigned to a tea ...

, a relief pitcher who specializes in finishing a game *

Central League The or , also known as the for sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League i ...

, one of two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball *

Central League (New Zealand) The Central League, known as the Dettol Central League for sponsorship reasons, is a competition run by the Capital Football for association football clubs located in the southern and central parts of the North Island. It is a New Zealand top-t ...

, association football league in New Zealand *

Continental League The Continental League of Professional Baseball Clubs (known as the Continental League or CL) was a proposed third major league for baseball in the United States and Canada. The league was announced in 1959 and scheduled to begin play in the 19 ...

, a 1959 proposed third major league for baseball in Canada and the United States

Transportation

Acura CL The Acura CL is a midsize car, midsize four passenger coupe manufactured and marketed by Honda's Acura brand across two generations from 1996 until 2003. All Acura CLs were manufactured at Honda's plant in East Liberty, Ohio with the Honda Civic ...

, a Japanese-American mid-size coupe *

Mercedes-Benz CL-Class The Mercedes-Benz CL-Class, now called S-Class is a line of grand tourers which are produced by German automaker Mercedes-Benz, produced from 1992 to 2020. The name CL stands for the German language, German Coupé Luxusklasse (Coupé-Luxury). ...

, a German sports car * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Light cruiser (CL) *

Lufthansa CityLine Lufthansa CityLine Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH is a German regional airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Munich Airport. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and maintains hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich ...

's IATA code

Other uses

* Certificated Location, a Caravan Club site * 150 (number) or CL in Roman numerals *

Light crude oil Light crude oil is liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely at room temperature. It has a low viscosity, low specific gravity and high API gravity due to the presence of a high proportion of light hydrocarbon fractions. It generally ...

's New York Mercantile Exchange symbol * Shilluk language's ISO 639-1 language code * Centerline, an engineering drawing symbol, stylized by an overlapping C and L (℄)