A Pal is a friend or close acquaintance. A person may be a pal or have a pal, either being a personal relationship.

Pal was the name of a famous dog trained by Rudd Weatherwax who was the first to portray Lassie, a famous collie.

PAL is a TLA that may stand for:

• Phase Alternating Line, a television signal encoding system.
• Panoramic annular lens
• Paradox Application Language
• Parcel airlift
• Parents Against Leukaemia
• Peninsula Athletic League
• Permissive Action Link, a security device for nuclear weapons.
• Philippine Airlines
• Platform Adaptation Layer
• Pohang Accelerator Labortory
• Police activities league
• Police athletic league
• Polyanaline
• Portable Audio Laboratory , a portable radio by Tivoli Audio .
• Positron annihilation lifetime
• Power assisted lipoplasty
• Pressure acid leach
• Process asset library
• Processor abstraction layer
• Programmable array logic
• Public Ada Library
• Purdue AirLink
• Prolongs Active Life , alleged as the meaning of a dog food brand, PAL, in the UK.
• The PAL videogame region
• P.A.L, German noise / electronic band.