WAL or Wal may refer to:

Places

Wał, Lublin Voivodeship Wał is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Izbica, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Izbica, south of Krasnystaw Krasnystaw ( uk, Красностав, Krasnostav) ...

, village in eastern Poland *

Wał, Masovian Voivodeship Wał is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, south-west of Grójec, and s ...

, village in east-central Poland *

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

, constituent nation of the United Kingdom *

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

, Walloon Region of Belgium *

Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard ...

(IATA: WAL), Virginia, USA

People

Given named

Wal (given name) Wal is a male given name and nickname. It is the Australian diminutive for Walter (name), Walter, Wallace (given name), Wallace, and Wally (given name), Wally. People using this name include: Persons Sportspeople * Wally Carr (1954–2019; aka ' ...

* Niels Wal Hansen (1892–1973), Dutch sailer

Surnamed

Peter Chol Wal Peter Chol Wal is a South Sudanese politician and is a member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). He was one of six SPLM candidates elected on the party list to the Jonglei State Jonglei State is a state of South Sudan with Bor a ...

, South Sudanese politician *

Priya Wal Priya Wal is an Indian television actress. Wal played various roles such as Anvesha in ''Remix'' on Star One and Aditi in ''Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii'' on StarPlus. She is best known for portraying Misha Dobriyal in Star One's hit television series ...

(born 1985), Indian actress *

Van der Wal Van der Wal (or van de Wal, Vander Wal, Vanderwal, van de Wall, VanderWaal) is a toponymic surname of Dutch origin. The original bearer of the name may have lived or worked at or near a "wal": a river embankment, quay, or rampart. In 2007, Van de(r) ...

(surname), a Dutch surname which can also be derived as Wal

Fictional characters

* Wallace Cadwallader "Wal" Footrot, the main character in the ''

Footrot Flats ''Footrot Flats'', a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball, ran from 1976 to 1994 in newspapers (unpublished strips continued to appear in book form until 2000). Altogether there are 27 numbered books (collecting the newspaper strips, ...

'' comic strip *

Wal Rus Rocket Raccoon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Keith Giffen, the character first appeared in ''Marvel Preview'' #7 (Summer 1976). He is an intelligent ...

, a Marvel Comics character, a fictional anthropomorphic walrus

Brands, groups, organizations, enterprises

Wal (bass) Wal is a brand of electric bass manufactured by Electric Wood Ltd, first in High Wycombe and later in Fetcham, Surrey, England. It was started in 1974 by guitar builder and electronics expert Ian Waller and luthier Pete Stevens. Since 2009 it ...

, a brand of electric bass guitars, founded by Ian Waller and Pete Stevens *

Wal-Mart Stores Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...

, a multi-national retailer founded by Sam Walton *

World Atlantic Airlines Caribbean Sun Airlines Inc., trading as World Atlantic Airlines is an American airline operating on-demand and scheduled charter services. Its corporate headquarters are located in Virginia Gardens, Florida, Virginia Gardens, Florida. History Th ...

(ICAO: WAL), an airline based in Miami, Florida, USA

Technology

Wide-angle lens In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane. This type of lens allows more of the scene to be included in the pho ...

, photographic equipment *

Write-ahead logging In computer science, write-ahead logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A write ahead log is an append-only auxiliary disk-resident structure used for crash ...

, a database management technique

Other uses

Wolaitta language Wolaitta or Wolayttatto Doonaa is a North Omotic language of the Ometo languages, Ometo group spoken in the Wolayita Zone and some other parts of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia. It is the native language of ...

(ISO 639: wal) * Dornier Do J ''Wal'' ("whale"), a German flying boat of the 1920s *

Weighted-average life In finance, the weighted-average life (WAL) of an amortizing loan or amortizing bond, also called average life, is the weighted average of the times of the ''principal repayments'': it's the average time until a dollar of principal is repaid. In a ...

, in loan repayment timing