APL
See also: apl
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
APL (uncountable)
- Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 407:
- The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL.
See alsoEdit
Acute promyelocytic leukemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2Edit
Computer language: from the book A Programming Language.
Proper nounEdit
APL
- (astronomy, NASA, physics) Abbreviation of Applied Physics Laboratory (a Johns Hopkins University laboratory)
- (physics, US) Abbreviation of Applied Physics Laboratory (at the University of Washington)
- (computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- APL (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
APL (plural APLs)
- (Scouting) Initialism of assistant patrol leader.