# Cal

Cal or CAL may refer to:

## 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

## Aviation

* Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom
* Campbeltown Airport IATA airport code
* China Airlines ICAO airline code
* Continental Airlines, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL"
* CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel

## Organizations and businesses

* CAL Bank, a commercial bank in Ghana
* Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957
* Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture
* Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg
* Coalition of African Lesbians, a non-profit organisation based in South Africa
* Colorado Association of Libraries, professional association in Colorado
* Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency

## People

* Cal (given name), a list of people
* Cal (surname), a list of people
* Cal (footballer) (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
* John Calipari (born 1959), American basketball coach often called "Coach Cal" or "Cal"

## Places

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

## School-related

* University of California, Berkeley, often shortened to "Cal"
** California Golden Bears, UC Berkeley's intercollegiate athletic program

## Science and math

* Calanthe, an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture
* Calcium hydroxide, also called cal
* Caliber, firearm barrel measurement
* abbreviation for calorie, a unit of energy
* (archeological) abbreviation of 'calendar' (before 1950), or 'calibrated' (after 1950), for a year as identified by radiocarbon dating (i.e. calBCE 3000, cal. 3600 BC)
* Cold Atom Laboratory, an instrument to research Bose-Einstein Condensates on the International Space Station

## Software

* C/AL, a programming language used with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
* Cakewalk Application Language, a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software
* CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language
* Cal (application), a former calendar app by Any.do
* cal (command), a program on various operating systems that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year
* CAL (programming language), a programming language based on JOSS
* Client access license, operating systems and software license scheme
* Cray Assembly Language, included with the Cray Operating System

## Sports

* Cape Ann League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States
* Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States
* Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league

## Other uses

* Calipatria State Prison, California, United States
* Capital allocation line, a graph to measure risk
* Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code
* FN CAL, an assault rifle made by the Belgian firm FN (Fabrique Nationale)
* Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league
* Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, an online dictionary and text collection hosted by the Hebrew Union College