GLA or Gla may refer to:

Entertainment

* ''GLA'' (album), by Scottish alternative rock band Twin Atlantic *

Great Lakes Avengers The Great Lakes Avengers (also known as The Lightning Rods, The Great Lakes X-Men, The Great Lakes Champions, and The Great Lakes Initiative) are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The charac ...

, a fictional comic hero group

Organisations

Gangmasters Licensing Authority The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is the foremost intelligence and investigative agency for labour exploitation in the UK. Its role is to work in partnership with police and other law enforcement agencies such as the National Crim ...

, a British regulatory body *

General lighthouse authority A general lighthouse authority (GLA) is one of three agencies primarily responsible for aids to navigation in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. They are divided into regions as follows: *Trinity House: England & Wales, Channel Islan ...

, provides navigational aids in Britain and Ireland *

Georgia Library Association The Georgia Library Association (GLA) is a professional organization in the United States for Georgia's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Savannah, Georgia. It was founded as The Georgia Library Club by members of the Young Me ...

, United States * Ghana Library Association *

Glassbridge Enterprises GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc., formerly Imation Corporation, is an American holding company. Through its subsidiary, Glassbridge focuses primarily on investment and asset management. The company was founded in 1996 under its original name o ...

, where GLA was its former NYSE ticker symbol * God Light Association, a Japanese new religion founded by Shinji Takahashi *

Great Lakes Airlines Great Lakes Airlines was an American regional airline operating domestic scheduled and charter services. Corporate headquarters were in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with a hub at Denver International Airport. As of November 2013, Great Lakes Airlines r ...

, an American airline *

Greater London Authority The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the Metonymy, metonym City Hall, is the Devolution in the United Kingdom, devolved Regions of England, regional governance body of Greater London, England. It consists of two political ...

* Guam Library Association

Science and technology

* Alpha-galactosidase, a glycoside hydrolase enzyme *

GLA (gene) Galactosidase alpha is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''GLA'' gene. Two recombinant forms of human α-galactosidase are called agalsidase alpha (INN) and agalsidase beta (INN). A mold-derived form is the primary ingredient in gas r ...

, an encoding of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A *

Gla domain Vitamin K-dependent carboxylation/gamma-carboxyglutamic (GLA) domain is a protein domain that contains post-translational modifications of many glutamate residues by vitamin K-dependent carboxylation to form γ-carboxyglutamate (Gla). Proteins wit ...

, a protein domain * Gamma-Linolenic acid, a fatty acid *

Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm The Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm (named after its creators Yoseph Linde, Andrés Buzo and Robert M. Gray, who designed it in 1980) is an iterative vector quantization algorithm to improve a small set of vectors (codebook) to represent a larger ...

(also called Generalized Lloyd Algorithm), a vector quantization algorithm

Other uses

Gla GLA or Gla may refer to: Entertainment * ''GLA'' (album), by Scottish alternative rock band Twin Atlantic * Great Lakes Avengers, a fictional comic hero group Organisations * Gangmasters Licensing Authority, a British regulatory body * Genera ...

, a Mycenaean fortification in Greece * GLA (LGBT), meaning gay and lesbian alliance *

Gross leasable area In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the bui ...

, in real estate, the total floorspace of a property *

GLA University GLA University is a private university in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. It is recognized by University Grants Commission (UGC), NCTE and Pharmacy Council of India. It has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) w ...

, in Mathura Uttar Pradesh, India *

Glamorgan Glamorgan (), or sometimes Glamorganshire ( or ), was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974. It is located in the South Wales, south of Wales. Originally an ea ...

, historic county in Wales, Chapman code *

Glasgow Airport Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International Airport () and formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, west of Glasgow city centre. In 2019 it handled 8.84 million passe ...

, IATA call-sign *

Global Leadership Adventures Global Leadership Adventures (GLA) offers high school study abroad programs where students engage in service-learning in Belize, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador (Galápagos Islands), Fiji, France (Guadeloupe), Ghana, Gu ...

, an international high school study abroad program *

Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class The Mercedes-Benz GLA is a subcompact luxury crossover SUV manufactured and marketed by Mercedes-Benz over two generations. It is essentially the SUV equivalent of the A-Class, and the smallest SUV marketed by the brand. The production version ...

, a car *

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

, ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language codes {{disambiguation