SL
Encyclopedia
Geography
- Saint LuciaSaint LuciaSaint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
, a Caribbean island - Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, in South Asia - Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
, in West Africa
Computing
- SL (complexity)SL (complexity)In computational complexity theory, SL is the complexity class of problems log-space reducible to USTCON , which is the problem of determining whether there exists a path between two vertices in an undirected graph, otherwise described as the problem of determining whether two vertices are in the...
, a class of computational complexity - .sl.sl.sl is the Internet country code top-level domain for Sierra Leone..sl is also commonly used for any web site dealing with the virtual world of Second Life.- Second-level Domains :* .sl - General...
, the country code top-level domain for Sierra Leone - Second LifeSecond LifeSecond Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars...
, a multi-user 3D virtual world - Scientific LinuxScientific LinuxScientific Linux is a Linux distribution produced by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research...
, a Linux distribution - Mac OS X v10.6Mac OS X v10.6Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference...
, named Snow Leopard - Subjective logicSubjective logicSubjective logic is a type of probabilistic logic that explicitly takes uncertainty and belief ownership into account. In general, subjective logic is suitable for modeling and analysing situations involving uncertainty and incomplete knowledge...
, a type of probabilistic logic
Transport
- Mercedes-Benz SL-ClassMercedes-Benz SL-ClassThe Mercedes-Benz SL is a grand tourer manufactured by Mercedes since 1954. The designation SL derives from the German Sport Leicht, or Sport Lightweight — and was first applied to the 300SL 'Gullwing' named also after its gullwing or upward-opening doors.The term SL-Class refers to the...
, an automobile - Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos RegionaisRio Sul Serviços Aéreos RegionaisRio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais was a regional airline headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, operating scheduled services to southern Brazil...
, IATA code SL, a Brazilian airline - Salt Lake City Southern RailroadSalt Lake City Southern RailroadThe Salt Lake City Southern Railroad is a 25-mile shortline operating between Salt Lake City, Utah and Murray, Utah. The SL began operating on April 19, 1993 as a RailTex subsidiary. Today the SL is a subsidiary of the Utah Railway and is owned by the Genesee & Wyoming Inc.-History:The line was...
's reporting mark - Steam locomotiveSteam locomotiveA steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
- Stor-Oslo LokaltrafikkStor-Oslo LokaltrafikkStor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk AS or SL was the public transport administration for bus and ferry transport in Akershus, Norway from 1973 to 2007. SL was organised as a limited company owned by the Akershus county municipality, the City of Oslo, and the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications,...
, a public transport operator in Akershus, Norway - Storstockholms LokaltrafikStorstockholms LokaltrafikStorstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, , commonly referred to as SL, is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County....
, a public transport operator in Stockholm, Sweden
Organizations
- S.L. (Sociedad LimitadaLimited liability companyA limited liability company is a flexible form of enterprise that blends elements of partnership and corporate structures. It is a legal form of company that provides limited liability to its owners in the vast majority of United States jurisdictions...
), a legal entity in Spain and some Spanish speaking countries - Sendero Luminoso, the "Shining Path" Maoist guerrilla movement
- SL Corporation, a Korean auto parts company
- Stronnictwo LudoweStronnictwo LudoweThe People's Party was a Polish political party, active from 1931 in the Second Polish Republic. An agrarian populist party, its power base was composed mostly from peasants....
, a defunct Polish party
Other
- Sensei's LibrarySensei's LibrarySensei's Library is an internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of the Wikipedia project on the internet. Sensei's Library was started in September 2000, by the Go players Morten Pahle and Arno...
, an internet website and wiki dedicated to the ancient game of Go - Sensu lato, a term used in taxonomy to mean "in the wider sense" of a definition
- Serjeant-at-lawSerjeant-at-lawThe Serjeants-at-Law was an order of barristers at the English bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law , or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are writs dating to 1300 which identify them as descended from figures in France prior to the Norman Conquest...
, an obsolete legal position in the United Kingdom - Signed Log, a term found often in GeocachingGeocachingGeocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world....
log entries - Sine loco, a term used in bibliographies to indicate that the place of publication of a document is unknown
- SonoluminescenceSonoluminescenceSonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.-History:The effect was first discovered at the University of Cologne in 1934 as a result of work on sonar. H. Frenzel and H. Schultes put an ultrasound transducer in a tank of...
, the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound - SophrolaeliaSophrolaeliaSophrolaelia is an intergeneric hybrid of orchids. It is abbreviated Sl. in the horticultural trade....
, an orchid genus - Special linear groupSpecial linear groupIn mathematics, the special linear group of degree n over a field F is the set of n×n matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion....
, a term used in mathematics, denoted SLn - Standard length, a commonly used measurement for fish: the length from tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra