Opal (disambiguation)
Opal (from Latin opalus , probably from Sanskrit upala "precious stone") denotes:
- Opal , mineral and gemstone made from hydrated silica gel
- Opal (alias) , allied code name for a German key rotor machine in World War II
- Opal (crater) , crater on the asteroid (2867) Šteins
- Opal (gasoline) , low- aromatic substitute for unleaded gasoline in Australia
- Opal, matte light bulb
- Opal (SSC) , the name of a so-called Security Subsystem Class (SSC) for storage devices, which was developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG)
- UEB 32642 (brand name Opal ), an apple variety
Opal is the name of the following people:
- Olaf Opal , German music producer
OPAL is an abbreviation for:
- One People of Australia League , Aboriginal social organization
- OPAL (detector) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Open Pool Australian Lightwater Reactor , a research reactor of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) near Sydney
- OPAL (learning platform) , online platform for academic teaching and learning at Saxon universities
- OPAL (Pipeline) (Baltic Sea Pipeline Connection Line), natural gas pipeline
- OPAL (portal) , research portal for museums and libraries in Lower Saxony
- OPAL (program library) , Open Phone Abstraction Library, open source program library for real-time communication via the Internet Protocol
- Opal (programming language) , Optimized Applicative Language, functional programming language
- OPAL (series of publications) , papers on linguistics published online at the Institute for German Language
- Open Pool Australian Lightwater Reactor , research reactor of the Australian Atomic Energy Agency
- Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher , a satellite
- Optical Access Line , optical connection cable
See also:
Wiktionary: Opal - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
