Cal or CAL may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Cal'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty * "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov * ''Cal'' (1984 film), an Irish drama starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren ** ''Cal'' (album), the soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler * ''Cal'' (2013 film), a British drama * Judge Cal, a fictional character in the ''Judge Dredd'' comic strip in ''2000 AD''

Aviation

* Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom * Campbeltown Airport IATA airport code *

China Airlines China Airlines (CAL; zh, t=中華航空, poj=Tiong-hôa Hâng-khong, p=Zhōnghuá Hángkōng, first=t, c=, s=) is the state-owned flag carrier of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan). It is one of Taiwan's two major airlines, along with E ...

ICAO airline code *

Continental Airlines Continental Airlines (simply known as Continental) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1934 until it merged with United Airlines in 2012. It had ownership interests and brand partnerships with several carriers. Continen ...

, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL" * CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel

Organizations and businesses

* CAL Bank, a commercial bank in Ghana * Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957 * Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture * Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg * Coalition of African Lesbians, a non-profit organisation based in South Africa * Colorado Association of Libraries, professional association in Colorado * Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency

People

* Cal (given name), a list of people * Cal (surname), a list of people * Cal (footballer) (born 1996), Brazilian footballer *

John Calipari John Vincent Calipari (; born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball, University of Arkansas. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (1996, 2 ...

(born 1959), American basketball coach often called "Coach Cal" or "Cal"

Places

* a short form of the state of

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

* Cal Islet, in the Madeira Islands Archipelago of Portugal * Çal, a district and town in southwest Turkey

School-related

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, often shortened to "Cal" ** California Golden Bears, UC Berkeley's intercollegiate athletic program

Science and math

* '' Calanthe'', an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture *

Calcium hydroxide Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca( OH)2. It is a colorless crystal or white powder and is produced when quicklime ( calcium oxide) is mixed with water. Annually, approxim ...

, also called cal *

Caliber In guns, particularly firearms, but not #As a measurement of length, artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel Gauge ( ...

, firearm barrel measurement * abbreviation for

calorie The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, kilocalorie, or kilogram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one liter o ...

, a unit of energy * (archeological) abbreviation of '

calendar A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar date, date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is ...

' (before 1950), or 'calibrated' (after 1950), for a year as identified by radiocarbon dating (i.e. calBCE 3000, cal. 3600 BC) * Cold Atom Laboratory, an instrument to research Bose-Einstein Condensates on the International Space Station

Software

* C/AL, a programming language used with Microsoft Dynamics NAV * Cakewalk Application Language, a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software * CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language * Cal (application), a former calendar app by Any.do *

cal (command) is a command-line utility on a number of computer operating systems including Unix, Plan 9, Inferno and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year. If the user does not specify any comm ...

, a program on various operating systems that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year * CAL (programming language), a programming language based on JOSS * Client access license, operating systems and software license scheme * Cray Assembly Language, included with the Cray Operating System

Sports

* Cape Ann League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States * Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States * Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league

Other uses

* Calipatria State Prison, California, United States * Capital allocation line, a graph to measure risk * Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code * FN CAL, an assault rifle made by the Belgian firm FN (Fabrique Nationale) * Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league *

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects. CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words. The project was started in the 1980s and is currently ...

, an online dictionary and text collection hosted by the Hebrew Union College