Organizations

• Advanced Production and Loading
  Advanced Production and Loading
  Advanced Production Loading is a specialist Norwegian engineering company supplying loading and transfer systems for offshore platforms and ships. The company's headquarter offices are in Arendal, Norway. APL has close to 200 staff in 2009...
  
  , a Norwegian marine engineering company formed in 1993.
• Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule (1946-1991)
• Alliance for Progress and Freedom
  Alliance for Progress and Freedom
  The Alliance for Progress and Freedom is a political party in Burkina Faso .At the last legislative elections, 5 May 2002, the party won 0.7 % of the popular vote and 1 out of 111 seats....
  
  , Alliance pour le Progrès et la Liberté, a political party in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa
• Amateur Poker League
  Amateur Poker League
  The Amateur Poker League is an amateur poker league in the United States.Players may join at any time during the season without fees or buy-ins. The tour consists of a three-tiered "Monthly Venue Championship", "Semi-Annual Regional Championship", and "National Championship" structure...
  
  , a U.S. based amateur poker league that feeds into the World Poker Tour
• American Party of Labor, a U.S. based Anti-Revisionist
  Anti-Revisionist
  In the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...
  
   Marxism-Leninism
  Marxism-Leninism
  Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...
  
   political party.
• American President Lines
  American President Lines
  American President Lines Ltd. is the world's seventh-largest container transportation and shipping company, providing services to more than 140 countries through a network combining intermodal freight transport operations with IT and e-commerce...
  
  , a Singapore-based container transportation and shipping company
• American Protective League
  American Protective League
  The American Protective League was an American organization of private citizens that worked with Federal law enforcement agencies during the World War I era to identify suspected German sympathizers and to counteract the activities of radicals, anarchists, anti-war activists, and left-wing labor...
  
  , a WWI era pro-war organization
• American Premier League
  American Premier League
  The American Premier League was a Twenty20 cricket league based in the United States of America. The first league was scheduled to take place between October 6 and October 24th 2009. The APL was owned and promoted by Jay Mir.-Affiliation and match plans:...
  
  , A Twenty20 cricket league in United States of America
• Applied Physics Laboratory
  Applied Physics Laboratory
  The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Howard County, Maryland near Laurel and Columbia, is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center employing 4,500 people. APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of...
  
  , Johns Hopkins University
• Association of Pension Lawyers
  Association of Pension Lawyers
  The Association of Pension Lawyers is a group of more than 1,100 lawyers who practise pension law in the UK. It is a non-profit making organisation and has no connection with the Law Society. Founded in 1984, it represents a forum by which lawyers in different firms and barristers' chambers can...
  
   - a group of lawyers who practice pension law in the UK
• Australian Premier League
  Australian Premier League
  The Australian Premier League was the largest online football gaming competition, for Australian users of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series.-The Competition:...
  
  , an online football gaming league
• Irish Anti-Partition League

Computer related

• APL (programming language), a computer programming language with specialized array processing capabilities
• Framewave, formerly the APL, the AMD Performance Library, a compiler library for AMD multi-core processors
• apl, file extension of the Monkey's Audio
  Monkey's Audio
  Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack....
  
   metadata file
• Address Prefix List, a DNS record type

Software licences

• Adaptive Public License
  Adaptive Public License
  The Adaptive Public License is an Open Source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative....
  
   - an Open Source license from the University of Victoria
• AROS Public License, license of AROS Research Operating System
  AROS Research Operating System
  AROS Research Operating System is a free and open source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Designed to be portable and flexible, ports are currently available for x86-based and PowerPC-based PCs in native and hosted flavors, with other architectures in development...
  
  , formerly Amiga Research Operating System
• Arphic Public License, license of freely available on Debian and Gentoo (Help:Multilingual support (East Asian))

Other

• Poverty threshold
  Poverty threshold
  The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country...
  
  , the section of people who can fulfil their minimum basic needs
• Acute promyelocytic leukemia
  Acute promyelocytic leukemia
  Acute promyelocytic leukemia is a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia , a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. It is also known as acute progranulocytic leukemia; APL; AML with t, PML-RARA and variants; FAB subtype M3 and M3 variant.In APL, there is an abnormal accumulation of immature...
  
  , a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia
• Aden Protectorate Levies
  Aden Protectorate Levies
  The Aden Protectorate Levies were a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate. The Levies were drawn from all parts of the Protectorate and were armed and officered by the British military...
  
  , a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate
• Aluminum-polythene laminate
• Anterior pituitarylike hormone
• apl.de.ap
  Apl.de.ap
  Allan Pineda Lindo, Jr. better known as apl.de.ap , is a Filipino-American rapper, record producer, and occasional drummer who is best known as a member of The Black Eyed Peas.-Early life:Pineda was born in Belfast...
  
  , pseudonym of Allan Pineda Lindo, a member of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas
• APL, United States Navy hull classification symbol
  Hull classification symbol
  The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...
  
   for Barracks Craft
• Applied Physics Letters
  Applied Physics Letters
  Applied Physics Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Institute of Physics. Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications of physics in all disciplines of science,...
  
  , journal published by American Institute of Physics
• Average Picture Level, a Federal Standard 1037C terms
• Nampula Airport
  Nampula Airport
  Nampula Airport is an airport in Nampula, Mozambique . In the northeastern part of Mozambique, with 2 paved runways and is also a hub for Kaya Airlines.-Airlines and destinations:...
  
  , Mozambique, from its IATA airport code
• Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Ontario), in Canada
• Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Indiana)
  Aurora Public Library (Aurora, Indiana)
  The Aurora Public Library was first organized by voluntary contributions. When the town was incorporated in 1819 a lot on Fifth Street was set aside for a public library, but it took time for enough funds to be raised for its establishment.In 1882 fundraising by the sale of stock in the library...
  
  , in the USA
• Austin Public Library
  Austin Public Library
  Austin Public Library is a library service in Austin, Texas, United States. It is operated by the City of Austin.The John Henry Faulk Central Library at 800 Guadalupe Street is the main branch; opening in 1979. It is on five stories...
  
  
• APL is the name of an asteroid: 132524 APL
• Average Party Level, a term used in Role Playing Games such as Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
  
• Accreditation of Prior Learning (UK) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.