TAL

TAL is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings:
*The radio and television programs This American Life
*The Thick ascending limb of loop of Henle
*The transitional administrative law of Iraq, see Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period
*Tiocfaidh ar la which means "our day shall come" in the Irish language
*Transoceanic Abort Landing for the Space Shuttle
*The Alberta Library
*The programming languages:
**Template Attribute Language
**Typed Assembly Language
**Transaction Application Language
*Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport (IATA Code: TAL) in Tanana, Alaska
*The Album Leaf, the solo project of post-rock musician Jimmy LaValle.
*Thunder and Lightning, a webcomic
*Transalpine LineAdditionally, Tal can refer to:
* "" (1929) a fantasy, adventure novel by Paul Fenimore Cooper.
* A concatenated drumming pattern for tabla analogous to a bar or measure.
* Israel Tal (*1924), general IDF
* Mikhail Tal (1936–1992), Latvian World Chess Champion
* a misspelling for Talla, term from Indian classical music, see Tala (music)
* the Hebrew name Tal, meaning Dew
* the Jewish piyyut known as "Tefillat Tal"
* A main character from Garth Nix's "The Seventh Tower" series.
* A fictional unit of Martian time, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" series
* A greeting from John Norman's "Gor" series of novels.
* The Tibetan word for 'lake'.
* The artist Tal R, see [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/tal_r.htm Saatchi Gallery Exhibit of Tal R's work]
* The singer Tal Bachman.
* Tal, Madhya Pradesh town.
* Tal Farlow (1921-1998), jazz guitarist.
* tal, the Hindi word for a sesame seed
* Tal, a traditional Korean mask.
* Joseph Tal (1910-2008), Israeli composer