CSL as an abbreviation may stand for:

Places

* Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois * Liège Space Center (Centre spatial de Liège), at the University of Liege in Belgium * Central Science Laboratory, a former UK DEFRA laboratory services agency

Languages

Croatian Sign Language Croatian sign language (Hrvatski znakovni jezik, HZJ) is a sign language of the deaf community in Croatia. It has in the past been regarded as a dialect of Yugoslav Sign Language, although the dialectical diversity of the former Yugoslavia has no ...

, a sign language for the deaf in Croatia *

Chinese Sign Language Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; ) is the official sign language of the People's Republic of China. It is unrelated to Taiwanese Sign Language and is known in the Republic of China as ''Wénfǎ Shǒuyǔ'' (). History The first D ...

, a sign language for the deaf in China, Malaysia, and Taiwan *

Clay Sanskrit Library The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit) on the left-hand page, with its English translation on the ...

, a series of books in Sanskrit with English translations *

Context-sensitive language In formal language theory, a context-sensitive language is a language that can be defined by a context-sensitive grammar (and equivalently by a noncontracting grammar). Context-sensitive is one of the four types of grammars in the Chomsky hierarch ...

, a class of formal languages in computational linguistics

Sciences

* Crosshole sonic logging, method for testing a constructed material * Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate, a food additive used as an emulsifier * Continuous spontaneous localization, a dynamical reduction theory in quantum mechanics *

Hartmann's solution Ringer's lactate solution (RL), also known as sodium lactate solution, Lactated Ringer’s, and Hartmann's solution, is a mixture of sodium chloride, sodium lactate, potassium chloride, and calcium chloride in water. It is used for replacing f ...

, compound sodium lactate, used in intravenous transfusions

Military

Cooperative Security Location A cooperative security location (CSL) is a U.S. military term for facilities used for regional training in counterterrorism and interdiction of drug trafficking, and also to provide contingency access to continental areas. "A CSL is a host-nation ...

, a US military facility * CSL, the designation code for Royal Australian Navy Wattle-class crane stores lighters

Computing

Citation Style Language The Citation Style Language (CSL) is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. Reference management programs using CSL include Zotero, Mendeley and Papers. The Pandoc lightweight document conversion s ...

, an open XML-based standard to format citations and bibliographies * Current-steering logic, an alternative name for

emitter-coupled logic In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family. ECL uses an overdriven bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential amplifier with single-ended input and limited emitter current to ...

in electronics *

, a language generated from a context-sensitive grammar

Companies

CSL Mobile CSL Mobile Limited () is a Hong Kong telecommunications company, which operates mobile network brands of "csl", "1O1O" and "Club SIM". CSL is a subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and was Hong Kong's first mobile communications operator esta ...

, subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom *

CSL Limited CSL Limited is an Australian multinational specialty biotechnology company that researches, develops, manufactures, and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions. CSL's product areas include blood plasma derivative ...

, an Australian biotechnology company, formerly Commonwealth Serum Laboratories *

CSL Behring CSL Behring is a biopharmaceutical company, manufacturing plasma-derived, and recombination therapeutic products. Its line of therapies includes products for the treatment of bleeding disorders such as hemophilia and von Willebrand Disease; prim ...

, a daughter company of CSL Limited *

Canada Steamship Lines Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) is a shipping company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The business has been operating for well over a century and a half. Beginnings CSL had humble beginnings in Canada East in 1845, operating river b ...

, a Canadian shipping company *

CSL Sofas Sofology (formerly known as Sofaworks, CSL, Clayton Salerooms, and CS Lounge Suites Ltd), is a British furniture retailer specialising in sofas. History Sofology started out as CSL Sofas, and was originally an auction rooms based in Clayton-le-M ...

, a furniture chain in the United Kingdom *

Cochin Shipyard Limited Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) is a shipbuilding facility in India. It is part of a line of maritime-related facilities in the port-city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. Of the services provided by the shipyard are building platform suppl ...

, a shipbuilding company in Kerala, India

Sports

* CAL Spora Luxembourg, amateur athletics club in Luxembourg * Canadian Soccer League, a soccer league in Canada since 2006 * Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992), a soccer league in Canada *

Chinese Super League The Chinese Football Association Super League, commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the China Ping An Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association ...

, the premier league of association football in China *

Cosmopolitan Soccer League The Cosmopolitan Soccer League is a regional soccer league consisting of semi-pro and amateur teams based in and around New York City. Established in 1923, it is one of the oldest soccer leagues in the United States and has contributed greatly ...

, a soccer league in United States

Politics

* Canadian Socialist League, a political party active from 1898 to 1904 * Czechoslovak People's Party (''Československá strana lidová'', ČSL), a political party

Others

Centers for Spiritual Living The Centers for Spiritual Living, or CSL, is a spiritual philosophy promoting Religious Science that was founded by Ernest Holmes in 1926. Before 2011, it was two organizations known as United Centers for Spiritual Living (formally, United Churc ...

, a religious denomination * Certain models of BMW car, designated BMW CSL * Charter seat license, name used by a few sports teams for a

personal seat license A personal seat license, or PSL, is a paid license that entitles the holder to the right to buy season tickets for a certain seat in a stadium. This holder can sell the seat license to someone else if they no longer wish to purchase season ti ...

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