GL, Gl, or gl may refer to:
Businesses and brands
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Air Greenland
Air Greenland Aktieselskab, A/S (formerly named Grønlandsfly and Greenlandair) is the flag carrier of Greenland, owned by the Naalakkersuisut, Greenlandic Government. It operates a fleet of 28 aircraft, including a single Airbus A330-800 airli ...
, IATA airline designator
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, a classification society
Government and military
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GreenLeft
(, ; GL) is a green political party in the Netherlands.
It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the ...
, a Dutch political party
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Gwardia Ludowa, a Polish resistance group during World War II
Language
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Galician language
Galician ( , ), also known as Galego (), is a Iberian Romance languages, Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, an Autonomo ...
(ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
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Palatal lateral approximant
The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase letter , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbo ...
, a digraph in Italian
Miscellaneous media
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Girls' love, an anime and manga jargon term for lesbian fiction
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Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. ''Guiding Light'' aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio ...
'', an American soap opera
People
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G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
Places
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GL postcode area, UK
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, vehicle area code
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Canton of Glarus
The canton of Glarus ( ; ; ; ) is a cantons of Switzerland, canton in east-central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus.
The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German.
The majority of the population (81%) identifies as Christianity in Switzer ...
, Switzerland, ISO 3166-2 subdivision code "GL"
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Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)
Science and technology
* GL, a symbol for
provability logic Provability logic is a modal logic, in which the box (or "necessity") operator is interpreted as 'it is provable that'. The point is to capture the notion of a proof predicate of a reasonably rich formal theory, such as Peano arithmetic.
Examples ...
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.gl, the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Greenland
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, the
general linear group
In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of n\times n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication. This forms a group, because the product of two invertible matrices is again inve ...
of degree n
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, the general linear
Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow \mathfrak g, that satisfies the Jacobi ident ...
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Gigalitre (or gigaliter), a metric unit of volume
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Glycemic load
The glycemic load (GL) of food is a number that estimates how much the food will raise a person's blood glucose level after it is eaten. One unit of glycemic load approximates the effect of eating one gram of glucose. Glycemic load accounts for ho ...
, an estimate of how much food will raise a person's blood glucose level
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Graphics library, a program library designed to aid in rendering computer graphics to a monitor
* Gl, the element symbol for Glucinium, a historic name of
beryllium
Beryllium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, hard, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with ...
Vehicles
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Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, a German full-size SUV
Other uses
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Leather Union, a former German trade union
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