Gal
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- Gal CostaGal CostaGal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
, Brazilian Bossa Nova singer - Gal FridmanGal FridmanGal 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 GálBernhard GálBernhard 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 GalJenny GalJennifer 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" GallenPaul GallenPaul 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 GalUdi GalUdi 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
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- 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 ForceGall Forceis 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 - GallonGallonThe 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...
- GalactoseGalactoseGalactose , 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, AzerbaijanGal, AzerbaijanGal 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, AzerbaijanHal, AzerbaijanHal is a village in the Qubadli Rayon of Azerbaijan.Hal is the Azeri village in Qubadli....
, a village - Gal class submarineGal class submarineThe 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 - KogalKogalThe 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 GaleandraGaleandraGaleandra, 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:
- GalaninGalaninGalanin 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 LisesiGazi Anadolu LisesiGazi 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 LimitedGeneral Aircraft LimitedGeneral 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 LanguageGeneralized Automation LanguageTwo 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 logicGeneric array logicThe 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 BrockelmannCarl BrockelmannCarl Brockelmann , German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg...
. - Get a life (idiom) (in internet slang)
- Global Address ListGlobal Address ListThe 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 lawGlobal administrative lawGlobal 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 LogisticsGlobal Aero LogisticsGlobal 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. AirportEdward G. Pitka Sr. AirportEdward 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 LiberaciónGrupos Antiterroristas de LiberaciónGrupos 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 guardianLegal guardianA 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...