AGL may refer to:
Businesses
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AGL Energy
AGL Energy Ltd () is an Australian listed public company involved in both the generation and retailing of electricity and gas for residential and commercial use. AGL is Australia's largest electricity generator, and the nation's largest c ...
, Australian energy company, successor to Australian Gas Light Company
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AGL Resources
Southern Company Gas, formerly AGL Resources, is an American Fortune 500 energy services holding company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company's operations consist of natural gas distribution, wholesale services, retail operations ...
, an American utility company
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Atlanta Gas Light
Atlanta Gas Light Company (AGLC), commonly still known as Atlanta Gas Light (AGL), is the largest natural gas wholesaler in the Southeast U.S., and is the leading subsidiary of parent company AGL Resources. It was founded in 1856 and is headqua ...
, a subsidiary of AGL Resources
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Australian Gas Light Company
The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer, operated entirely by McCarthy Hanlin. It was formed in Sydney in 1837 and supplied town gas for the first public lighting of a street lamp in Sydney in 1841. AG ...
, a former Australian energy company
Science and technology
Biology
* AGL gene, which codes for human
glycogen debranching enzyme
A debranching enzyme is a molecule that helps facilitate the breakdown of glycogen, which serves as a store of glucose in the body, through glucosyltransferase and glucosidase activity. Together with phosphorylases, debranching enzymes mobiliz ...
* amylo- α- 1,6- glucosidase, 4- α- glucanotransferase (AGL), another name for the
glycogen debranching enzyme
A debranching enzyme is a molecule that helps facilitate the breakdown of glycogen, which serves as a store of glucose in the body, through glucosyltransferase and glucosidase activity. Together with phosphorylases, debranching enzymes mobiliz ...
Computing
* A Graphics Language, BASIC language extension for
control of Hewlett-Packard plotters
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Adobe Glyph List
The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) is a mapping of 4,281 glyph names to one or more Unicode characters. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for ''consumers'' of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names t ...
, a list of glyph names for Unicode characters
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Apple Graphics Library
Core OpenGL, or CGL, is Apple Inc.'s Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification. CGL is analogous to GLX, which is the X11 interface to OpenGL, as well as WGL, which is the Microsoft Wi ...
, the Apple API for OpenGL
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Automotive Grade Linux
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation that is building an open operating system and framework for automotive applications. AGL was launched in 2012 with founding members including Jaguar Land Rover, ...
, an open operating system and framework for automotive applications
Other uses in science and technology
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Above ground level
In aviation, atmospheric sciences and broadcasting, a height above ground level (AGL or HAGL) is a height measured with respect to the underlying ground surface. This is as opposed to height above mean sea level (AMSL or HAMSL), height above ell ...
, in aviation
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Affine general linear group, a group of affine transformations in mathematics
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Artificial grammar learning
Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is a paradigm of study within cognitive psychology and linguistics. Its goal is to investigate the processes that underlie human language learning by testing subjects' ability to learn a made-up grammar in a labora ...
, an investigative technique in cognitive psychology and linguistics
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Automatic Grenade Launcher An automatic grenade launcher (AGL) or grenade machine gun is a grenade launcher that is capable of fully automatic fire, and is typically loaded with either an ammunition belt or magazine.
These weapons are often mounted on vehicles or helicopter ...
, weapon for shooting grenades rapidly
Other uses
* AGL, the United States Navy
hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ...
for a lighthouse tender
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Abergele & Pensarn railway station
, symbol_location = gb
, symbol = rail
, image = Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station Booking Hall (geograph 4445552).jpg
, borough = Abergele, Conwy
, country = Wales
, coordinates ...
, UK (National Rail code AGL)
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Angola
, national_anthem = "Angola Avante"()
, image_map =
, map_caption =
, capital = Luanda
, religion =
, religion_year = 2020
, religion_ref =
, coordina ...
, ITU letter code
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Fembe language
Fembe, or Agala, is a Trans–New Guinea language of New Guinea, spoken in the plains east of the Strickland River
The Strickland River is a major river in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is the longest and largest tributary of th ...
(ISO 639-3 code agl)
* "Animism: the Gods' Lake", a fictional location in
''Animism'' (TV series)
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