EL, El or el may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

* El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in the

Superman dynasty The Superman dynasty, an extension of the House of El, is a lineage of DC Comics superheroes. The term is used for the descendants of Kal-El, the original Superman, who continue to uphold his legacy of heroism well into the 853rd century, as depic ...

* E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film ''

Road Trip A road trip, sometimes spelled roadtrip, is a long-distance Travel, journey traveled by a car or a motorcycle. History First road trips by automobile The world's first recorded long-distance road trip by the automobile took place in German Em ...

Music

Él Records él is an English independent record label based in London that was founded by Mike Alway, later becoming a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records. Their musicians were characterized by a strong English sensibility, as well as the French influence s ...

, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él ''(Lucerito album), a 1982 album by Lucerito * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from the album '' Caminando'' * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry performed by Lucía in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982

Other media

* ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by

Mercedes Pinto Mercedes Pinto Armas (12 October 1883 in La Laguna, Tenerife – 21 October 1976 in Ciudad de México) was a Spanish writer. Her 1926 novel ''He'' is the basis of the Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July ...

* ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 1991 Japanese adult visual novel *

EL TV EL TV is an Azerbaijani privately owned regional terrestrial television channel serving the Central Aran Economic Region and launched on 17 July 2009. It is owned by Yevlakh TV LLC and headquartered in the city of Yevlakh. History EL TV was fo ...

, an Azerbaijani regional television channel

Companies and organizations

* Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL), American cosmetics manufacturer *

EssilorLuxottica EssilorLuxottica SA is a Franco-Italian Vertical integration, vertically integrated multinational corporation, multinational holding company registered in Charenton-Le-Pont and headquartered in nearby Paris. It designs, produces and markets opht ...

(Euronext Paris:EL), French-Italian eyewear conglomerate *

NIST Engineering Laboratory The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

, a NIST laboratory since 2010

Science and technology

* El (crater), a crater on Ganymede *

Electroluminescence Electroluminescence (EL) is an optical phenomenon, optical and electrical phenomenon, in which a material emits light in response to the passage of an electric current or to a strong electric field. This is distinct from black body light emission ...

, in physics **

Electroluminescent display Electroluminescent displays (ELDs) are a type of flat panel display created by sandwiching a layer of electroluminescent material such as gallium arsenide between two layers of conductors. When current flows, the layer of material emits radiatio ...

, a display made with electroluminescent material *

Electrum Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has been produced artificially and is ...

(El), an alloy of gold and silver *

Encephalitis lethargica Encephalitis lethargica (EL) is an atypical form of encephalitis. Also known as "von Economo Encephalitis", "sleeping sickness" or "sleepy sickness" (distinct from tsetse fly–transmitted sleeping sickness), it was first described in 1917 by ne ...

, a neurological disease *

Equilibrium level In meteorology, the equilibrium level (EL), or level of neutral buoyancy (LNB), or limit of convection (LOC), is the height at which a rising parcel of air is at the same temperature as its environment. This means that unstable air is now stable ...

, the height in the atmosphere at which a rising parcel of air reaches surrounding air of the same temperature *

El (number) The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional notation, positional numeral system using 12 (number), twelve as its radix, base. In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 1, units; ...

, a pronunciation of the symbol for the number eleven in some duodecimal system notations

Computing

* .el, a computer file extension used for

Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp is a Lisp dialect made for Emacs. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C, as is the Lisp interpreter. Emacs Lisp code is used to modify, extend and customi ...

source code *

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) was a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia that started as a Fork (software development), fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, released under the Creative Commons licenses, Creative Commons ...

, a spin-off project of the Spanish Wikipedia *

Erase Line (ANSI) ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an Escape character#ASC ...

, an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence *

Unified Expression Language The Jakarta Expression Language (EL; formerly Expression Language and Unified Expression Language) is a special purpose programming language mostly used in Jakarta EE web applications for embedding and evaluating expressions in web pages. The ...

, a feature of the JavaServer Pages software technology

Sport

Eastern League (disambiguation) Eastern League may refer to: Baseball in the United States ''Most recent leagues listed first'' * Eastern League (1938–present), a minor league established in 1923 and renamed Eastern League in 1938; Double-A since 1963 * Eastern League (1916� ...

, a Class AA League in Minor League Baseball *

Euroleague Basketball Euroleague Basketball, run by Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA), is a private company that runs and operates men's professional basketball club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup. It has ...

, highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe *

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

, formerly the UEFA Cup, a competition for eligible European football clubs

Transportation

Acura EL The Acura EL is a compact executive car, subcompact executive car that was built at Honda's Alliston, Ontario, plant, and also the first Acura built in Canada. It was also exclusively sold in Canada. The EL is a Rebadging, badge-engineered Honda ...

, an automobile *

Air Nippon was a regional airline based in the Shiodome City Center complex in Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of All Nippon Airways (ANA). Its main base was Haneda Airport, Tokyo International Airport. Code dat ...

(former IATA code: EL), a former Japanese regional airline *

Ellinair Ellinair was a Greek airline headquartered in Thessaloniki operating scheduled and charter flights. History The new airline was established on 19 February 2013 and its first flight was operated in February 2014. The name Ellinair is a combinati ...

(former IATA code: EL), a former Greek airline *

Erie Lackawanna Railway The Erie Lackawanna Railway , known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route ...

(reporting mark: EL), US *

Elevated railway An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the Track (rail transport), tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concre ...

Chicago "L" The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated railway, elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the four ...

, the rapid transit system in Chicago, US ** El, one name of the elevated railway system on SEPTA, the Market–Frankford Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US *

Elizabeth line The Elizabeth line is a railway line that runs across Greater London and nearby towns, operating similarly to the Réseau Express Régional, RER in Paris and the S-Bahn systems of German-speaking countries. It runs services on dedicated infras ...

, a commuter rail line in London

Language

Al- (, also romanized as ''el-'', ''il-'', and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite. For ex ...

or "El-" (), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names *

El (Cyrillic) El (Л л or Ʌ ʌ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant . In Slavic languages it may be either palatalized or slightly velarized; see below. History The Cyrillic letter El ...

(Л, л), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet *

Greek language Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), south ...

(ISO 639-1 language code EL) * L (spelled-out version), a letter in the Latin alphabet

People

* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer *

El DeBarge Eldra "El" Patrick DeBarge (born June 4, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He was the focal point and primary lead singer of the DeBarge family, family group DeBarge. Popular songs led by El DeBarge include "Time Will Reveal ...

(born 1961), music artist *

El Franco Lee El Franco Lee (January30, 1949January3, 2016) was an American politician who served as a Harris County, Texas, Harris County commissioner from 1985 to his death in 2016. Before becoming a county commissioner, he served as a member of the Texas Ho ...

(1949–2016), American politician *

Ephrat Livni Ephrat Livni, also known as el (born 1972), is an Israeli-American artist, writer and lawyer who creates large scale street art projects. Biography Livni wrote for the ''Jerusalem Report'' in Israel and for ABC News (United States), ABC News in N ...

(born 1972), American street artist

Other uses

El (deity) El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, ''ila'', represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite langua ...

, Semitic word for "god" and proper name of certain deities *

Party of the European Left The Party of the European Left (PEL), or European Left (EL), is a European political party that operates as an association of democratic socialist and communist political parties in the European Union and other European countries. It was formed ...

, a political party *

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

(EU VAT identification: EL)