Cal

Cal may refer to:

People

• Cal (given name), a list of people with the given name or shortened form of another name, usually Calvin
• David Cal (born 1982), Spanish sprint canoer
• John Calipari (born 1959), American basketball coach often called "Coach Cal" or "Cal"
• Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960), American baseball player

Places

• a short form of the state of California
• Çal, a district and town in southwest Turkey
• Cal Islet, in the Madeira Islands Archipelago of Portugal

Arts and entertainment

• Cal (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty
• "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• Cal (1984 film), an Irish drama starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren
  • Cal (album), the soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler
• Cal (2013 film), a British drama
• Judge Cal, a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD
• Charlotte Abigail Lux, a character in the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"

Software

• cal (Unix), a standard program on Unix that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year
• Cal (application), a calendar app by Any.do
• Client access license, operating systems and software license scheme
• CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language
• Cakewalk Application Language (CAL), a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software
• CAL (Joss family), a programming language
• CAL (Quark Framework), a programming language
• ClearCase Automation Library, a programming interface of IBM Rational ClearCase
• Cray Assembly Language, included with the Cray Operating System

Businesses

• Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom
• CAL Bank, a commercial bank in Ghana
• CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel
• Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957
• Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency principally targeting educational institutions

Codes and symbols

• Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code
• China Airlines, ICAO airline code
• Campbeltown Airport, IATA airport code
• Continental Airlines, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL"

Abbreviations

• Common abbreviation for caliber
• Common abbreviation for calorie a unit of energy
• cal and cal., abbreviations of calibrated years
• Calanthe, an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture
• Cautionary and advisory label

Other uses

• University of California, Berkeley, nicknamed Cal
• California Golden Bears, UC Berkeley's intercollegiate athletic program
• Calhoun Hall (abbreviated CAL), a building on the University of Texas at Austin campus
• calcium hydroxide, also called cal
• Calipatria State Prison in California, United States
• Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States
• Cape Ann League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States
• Capital allocation line, graph to measure risk
• Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture
• Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as "chronic airway limitation" (CAL)
• Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league
• FN CAL, a Belgian assault rifle made by Fabrique Nationale
• Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league

See also

• Calvin (disambiguation)