Gal
Encyclopedia

Given name

  • Gal Costa
    Gal Costa
    Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

    , Brazilian Bossa Nova singer
  • Gal Fridman
    Gal Fridman
    Gal Fridman is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist.He was born in Karkur, Israel, and lives in nearby kibbutz Sdot Yam.Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics...

     (b. 1975), windsurfer and first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal

Surname

  • Austrian composer and artist Bernhard Gál
    Bernhard Gál
    Bernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.-Biography:Bernhard Gál works between the categories, creating music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of...

  • Jenny Gal
    Jenny Gal
    Jennifer Eva Caroline Gal is a retired judoka who competed for The Netherlands at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics and Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics....

    , Dutch-Italian judoka
  • Paul "Gal" Gallen
    Paul Gallen
    Paul Gallen is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks of the National Rugby League. Gallen's position of choice is lock and occasionally at Prop. He is an Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative...

    , Australian rugby league footballer
  • Udi Gal
    Udi Gal
    Udi Gal is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist.-Biography:Gal is Jewish, and was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started sailing at 8 years of age, and started racing at 13 years of age. He competes with the club Hapoel Tel Aviv...

     (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor

Other

  • Gal (unit)
    Gal (unit)
    The gal, sometimes called galileo, is a unit of acceleration used extensively in the science of gravimetry. The gal is defined as 1 centimeter per second squared ....

    , short for Galileo Unit: one centimeter per second squared
  • Gall Force
    Gall Force
    is a metaseries of science fiction anime OVA by the studio Artmic, with production by Youmex and AIC. The original character designs were by Kenichi Sonoda, though these were dropped for the Gall Force Revolution remake .-Star Front Gall Force:This was the origin and precursor to the Gall Force...

    , a 1980s Japanese anime
  • Gallon
    Gallon
    The gallon is a measure of volume. Historically it has had many different definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon which is used in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States liquid gallon and the lesser used United States dry...

  • Galactose
    Galactose
    Galactose , sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a type of sugar that is less sweet than glucose. It is a C-4 epimer of glucose....

    , an organic compound
  • Gali (town)
    Gali (town)
    Gali is a town in Georgia, 77 km southeast to Sukhumi in region Abkhazia. It is the centre of Gali District and was previously in the UN security zone prior to the Russian veto of the UMOMIG Mission in 2009.- References :...

    , aka Gal, a town in Abkhazia
  • Gal, Azerbaijan
    Gal, Azerbaijan
    Gal is a village and the least populous municipality in the Julfa Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 128. The village had a large, 19th century, Armenian church that was standing derelict in the 1980s but which is now destroyed....

    , a village and municipality
  • Hal, Azerbaijan
    Hal, Azerbaijan
    Hal is a village in the Qubadli Rayon of Azerbaijan.Hal is the Azeri village in Qubadli....

    , a village
  • Gal class submarine
    Gal class submarine
    The Type 540 Gal Class submarine is a slightly modified variant of the German HDW Type 206 submarine class , modified for Israeli requirements. The Gal class submarines were built to Israeli specifications as the Vickers shipyards Type 540 at Barrow in Furness in the UK rather than Germany for...

     of the Israeli Navy, a Japanese fashion style for young women
  • Kogal
    Kogal
    The kogal fashion involves wearing an outfit based on a Japanese school uniform, but with a shortened skirt, loose socks, and often dyed hair and a scarf as well. The phenomenon was prominent in the 1990s, but has since declined. The word "kogal" is anglicized from kogyaru, a contraction of kôkôsei...

    , a newer Japanese fashion style for young women, also sometimes referred to as "gal"
  • the orchid genus Galeandra
    Galeandra
    Galeandra, abbreviated as Gal in horticultural trade, is a genus of 20 species of orchids native to tropical America.-List of species:...



GAL may refer to:
  • Galanin
    Galanin
    Galanin is a neuropeptide encoded by the GAL gene, that is widely expressed in the brain, spinal cord, and gut of humans as well as other mammals. Galanin signaling occurs through three G protein-coupled receptors....

    , a peptide
  • Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
    Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
    Gazi Anatolian High School is a co-ed Anatolian High School in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded under the name "Söğütözü Anatolian High School" in 1984 and moved to its current location and name in 1986...

    , a Turkish high school located at Ankara
  • Gatwick Airport Limited
  • General Aircraft Limited
    General Aircraft Limited
    General Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1931 to amalgamation with Blackburn Aircraft in 1949 to become Blackburn and General...

  • Generalized Automation Language
    Generalized Automation Language
    Two forms of GAL are available. The first is General Automation Language for device automation and the second is Generalized Automation Language which a very high level programming language for MVS based systems such as OS/390 and z/OS....

  • Generic array logic
    Generic array logic
    The Generic Array Logic device was an innovation of the PAL and was invented by Lattice Semiconductor. The GAL was an improvement on the PAL because one device was able to take the place of many PAL devices or could even have functionality not covered by the original range...

  • Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, the standard work on Arabic literature by Carl Brockelmann
    Carl Brockelmann
    Carl Brockelmann , German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg...

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  • Get a life (idiom) (in internet slang)
  • Global Address List
    Global Address List
    The Global Address List also known as Microsoft Exchange Global Address Book is a directory service within the Microsoft Exchange email system. The GAL contains information for all email users, distribution groups, and Exchange resources...

     in Microsoft Exchange
  • Global administrative law
    Global administrative law
    Global Administrative Law is an emerging field that is based upon a dual insight: that much of what is usually termed “global governance” can be accurately characterized as administrative action; and that increasingly such action is itself being regulated by administrative law-type principles,...

  • Global Aero Logistics
    Global Aero Logistics
    Global Aviation Holdings Inc. is the parent company of World Airways, Inc. , and North American Airlines, Inc. , headquartered in Peachtree City, Georgia...

  • Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport
    Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport
    Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Galena, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.-Facilities:Edward G. Pitka Sr...

     (IATA airport code)
  • Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación
    Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación
    Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación were death squads established illegally by officials of the Spanish government to fight ETA, the principal Basque separatist militant group. They were active from 1983 until 1987, under Spanish Socialist Workers Party -led governments...

    , a Spanish death squad active in the 1980s set up to fight ETA
  • Grüne Alternative Liste, various organisations representing the German Green party at state or communal level, the most well-known being the Grün-Alternative Liste in Hamburg
  • Guardian ad litem, see legal guardian
    Legal guardian
    A legal guardian is a person who has the legal authority to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for his or her own interests due to infancy, incapacity, or disability...

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