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PL, P.L., Pl, or Pl. may refer to::
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In politics, law and philosophy:
- Pl., an abbreviation for PluralPluralIn linguistics, plurality or [a] plural is a concept of quantity representing a value of more-than-one. Typically applied to nouns, a plural word or marker is used to distinguish a value other than the default quantity of a noun, which is typically one...
- Partido Laborista
- Patrologia LatinaPatrologia LatinaThe Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865....
- Philippine LegislaturePhilippine LegislatureThe Philippine Legislature was the legislative body of the Philippines during the earlier part U.S. colonial administration. It was a bicameral legislature, with the Philippine Commission, headed by the U.S. Governor General serving as the upper house, and the Philippine Assembly serving as the...
, a legislature that existed in the Philippines from 1907 to 1935 - PL KyodanPL Kyodan, is a Japanese Shinshūkyō founded in 1924 by Tokuharu Miki , who was a priest in the Obaku Sect of Zen Buddhism. The stated aim of the Church of Perfect Liberty is to bring about world peace.-Teachings:...
, a religious movement founded in Japan in the early 20th Century - PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, ISO 3166-1 country code - Polish languagePolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
, ISO 639-1 code - Progressive Labor Party, a United States communist party
- Propositional logic, a system of evaluating truth-based propositions in terms of binary logic
- Public libraryPublic libraryA public library is a library that is accessible by the public and is generally funded from public sources and operated by civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries...
- Private Limited, a term that is used in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
for a company that is privately held. - Public lawPublic lawPublic law is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals and the state. Under this theory, constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub-divisions of public law...
- Public liabilityPublic liabilityPublic liability is part of the law of tort which focuses on civil wrongs. An applicant usually sues the respondent under common law based on negligence and/or damages...
- PL, the postal district for PlymouthPlymouthPlymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
, West DevonDevonDevon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
, and CornwallCornwallCornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
east of BodminBodminBodmin is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of the county southwest of Bodmin Moor.The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character...
and south of BudeBudeBude is a small seaside resort town in North Cornwall, England, at the mouth of the River Neet . It lies just south of Flexbury, north of Widemouth Bay and west of Stratton and is located along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany, France... - An abbreviation for Proprietary limited company in Australia
In science, aviation and military:
- PL tone
- Patriotic LeaguePatriotic LeagueThe Patriotic League was the first military unit of Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina formed after the Bosnian Territorial Defense Forces were gained by the SDS party.- History :...
(Bosnian: Patriotska Liga), a first military organisation of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina - PhotoluminescencePhotoluminescencePhotoluminescence is a process in which a substance absorbs photons and then re-radiates photons. Quantum mechanically, this can be described as an excitation to a higher energy state and then a return to a lower energy state accompanied by the emission of a photon...
- Piecewise linear
- Pierre LevasseurPierre Levasseur (aircraft builder)Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft manufacturer. He produced aircraft for the French Navy.François Denhaut was the chief pilot of Pierre Levasseur's flying school...
, a French aircraft designer - Platoon LeaderPlatoon leaderA platoon leader or platoon commander is the officer in command of a platoon. This person is usually a junior officer — a second or first lieutenant, or an equivalent rank. The officer is usually assisted by a platoon sergeant...
in the United States Army - Plastic limit in geotechnical engineering
- Path LossPath lossPath loss is the reduction in power density of an electromagnetic wave as it propagates through space. Path loss is a major component in the analysis and design of the link budget of a telecommunication system....
in telecommunication engineering - PulchellidinPulchellidinPulchellidin is an O-methylated anthocyanidin. It is a blue-red plant pigment. It can be found in Plumbago pulchella.-Glycosides:* Pulchellidin 3-rhamnoside is reported in Plumbago coerulea whereas pulchellidin 3-glucoside is reported in Plumbago pulchella...
(Pl), an anthocyanidin - Airstars AirwaysAirstars AirwaysAirstars, Ltd is a cargo airline based in Moscow, Russia. It was established in 2000 and operates cargo services throughout Russia and eastern Europe...
, IATA airline designators (PL) - AeroPeruAeroperuAeroperú was the former national flag carrier of Peru, and from 1993 to 2000 was a subsidiary of AeroMéxico. Its headquarters were in Miraflores, Lima. It went bankrupt in 1999...
, IATA airline designators (PL) - Ice pelletsIce pelletsIce pellets are a form of precipitation consisting of small, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets usually are smaller than hailstones. They often bounce when they hit the ground, and generally do not freeze into a solid mass unless mixed with freezing rain...
, METAR Code PL - Digital Private Line
- Two variants of litreLitrepic|200px|right|thumb|One litre is equivalent to this cubeEach side is 10 cm1 litre water = 1 kilogram water The litre is a metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre , to 1,000 cubic centimetres , and to 1/1,000 cubic metre...
, picolitre (pL) and petaliter (PL)
In computing and internet:
- .pl.pl.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain for Poland, administered by NASK, Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.- History :...
, country code top-level domain for Poland - .pl, common filename suffix for PerlPerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
scripts - .pl, common filename suffix for PrologPrologProlog is a general purpose logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is declarative: the program logic is expressed in terms of...
programs - .pl, common filename suffix for TeX font property listsTeX font metricTeX font metric is a font file format used by the TeX typesetting system. It is a font metric format, not an outline font format like TrueType, because it provides only the information necessary to typeset the font such as each character's width, height and depth. The actual glyphs are stored...
- PL/CPL/CPL/C is a computer programming language developed at Cornell University with the specific goal of being used for teaching programming. It is based on IBM's PL/I language, and was designed in the early 1970s. Cornell also developed a compiler for the language that was based on its earlier CUPL...
- PL/IPL/IPL/I is a procedural, imperative computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, business and systems programming applications...
- PL/SQLPL/SQLPL/SQL is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database...
- Packet lossPacket lossPacket loss occurs when one or more packets of data travelling across a computer network fail to reach their destination. Packet loss is distinguished as one of the three main error types encountered in digital communications; the other two being bit error and spurious packets caused due to noise.-...
- Procedural programmingProcedural programmingProcedural programming can sometimes be used as a synonym for imperative programming , but can also refer to a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based upon the concept of the procedure call...
- Programming languageProgramming languageA programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
- Presentation LayerPresentation layerThe presentation layer is layer 6 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking and serves as the data translator for the network. It is sometimes called the syntax layer.-Description:...
- Patch Level
In sports:
- Pioneer Baseball League, a Rookie league in Minor League Baseball
- Pioneer Football LeaguePioneer Football LeagueThe Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates in the East, Midwest, and California of the United States. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. The conference participates in the NCAA's...
, NCAA FCS conference - Premier League, the top English football league
- Pacific LeaguePacific LeagueThe or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series...
, one of the two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball
In supply chain:
- 1PL, First-party logistics provider
- 2PLSecond-party logisticsA Second-party logistics provider is an asset-based carrier, which actually owns the means of transportation.- Type of 2PL :Second-party logistics providers are:* shipping lines, which own, lease, or charter their ships,...
, Second-party logistics provider - 3PL, Third-party logistics provider
- 4PL, Fourth-party logistics provider
In Broadcasting
- Private Line (intercomIntercomAn intercom , talkback or doorphone is a stand-alone voice communications system for use within a building or small collection of buildings, functioning independently of the public telephone network. Intercoms are generally mounted permanently in buildings and vehicles...
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In Commercial
- (Private LabelPrivate labelPrivate label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company's brand. Private label goods and services are available in a wide range of industries from food to cosmetics to web hosting...
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