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GL, Gl, or gl may refer to:
Businesses and brands
[edit]- Air Greenland, IATA airline designator
- Germanischer Lloyd, a classification society
- GlobalLogic, a Digital Product Engineering Services company
Government and military
[edit]- GreenLeft, a Dutch political party
- Green-Libertarian, a North American political philosophy
- Gwardia Ludowa, a Polish resistance group during World War II
- Grenade launcher, a military weapon
Language
[edit]- Galician language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
- Good Luck, in Internet slang
- Palatal lateral approximant, a digraph in Italian
Miscellaneous media
[edit]- Girls' love, an anime and manga jargon term for lesbian fiction
- Golden Lovers, a Japanese professional wrestling team
- Good Luck!!, a 2003 television drama
- Green Lantern, any of a number of similarly themed DC Comics characters
- Guiding Light, an American soap opera
- Gurren Lagann, a 2007 Japanese anime
People
[edit]- G. L. Peiris, Sri Lankan politician and academic
- Gary Lightbody, lead singer of Snow Patrol
- George Lucas, American film director
Places
[edit]- GL postcode area, UK
- Geauga Lake, an amusement park in Ohio, US that closed in 2007
- Gelnica District, Slovakia
- Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (vehicle registration plate for Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis)
- Canton of Glarus, Switzerland
- Gloucester, a city in the South West of England
- Gorkhaland, the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Duars in north West Bengal in India
- Governor Livingston High School, a high school in New Jersey
- Greenland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)
Science and technology
[edit]- GL, a symbol for provability logic
- .gl, the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Greenland
- Degrees Gay-Lussac, a measure of alcohol by volume
- General linear group, a concept in algebra
- General linear Lie algebra
- Gigalitre (or gigaliter), a metric unit of volume
- Glycemic load, an estimate of how much food will raise a person's blood glucose level
- Graphics library, a program library designed to aid in rendering computer graphics to a monitor
- Grenade launcher, in military parlance
- Gulonolactone, an enzyme that produces vitamin C
- Gl, the symbol for Glucinium, the former designation of Beryllium
- Gauss's law, an important law relating the electric flux through a closed surface with the charge present inside it
- OpenGL, an API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics
Vehicles
[edit]- Geely Emgrand GL, a Chinese compact sedan
- Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, a German full-size SUV
Other uses
[edit]- Gay-Lesbian, an alternative term for homosexual people
- General Ledger, a bookkeeping ledger in which accounting data are posted from journals, and aggregated from subledgers such as accounts payable and accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects
- Gloss (annotation), a brief notation of the meaning of a word in a text
- Leather Union, a former German trade union