Opal (disambiguation)
An opal is a gemstone.
Opal may also refer to:
People
Places
- In Canada
- Opal, Alberta
- Opal Cone, a volcano in British Columbia
- Opal Hills, Jasper National Park
- In the United States
- Opal, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Opal, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
- Opal, Virginia, a census-designated place
- Opal, Wyoming, a town
- Elsewhere
- Upal or Opal, a town in Xinjiang, China
Science and technology
Computing
- OPAL (software) (Open Physics Abstraction Layer), a real-time physics engine
- Opal programming language, developed at the Technical University of Berlin
- Open Phone Abstraction Library (OPAL), a fork of the H323plus project supporting H.323, SIP, IAX2
- Opal Storage Specification, a storage specification developed by the Trusted Computing Group
Research facilities
- Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor, a scientific facility in Sydney, Australia
- OPAL detector, a detector of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN
Other sciences
- Opal (apple), a variety of apple produced by crossing Golden Delicious and Topaz varieties
- Opal (butterfly), common name for the butterfly genus, Chrysoritis
- Omeprazole or Opal, a drug
- Opal phytolith, a rigid microscopic body that occurs in many plants
- Opal, a stop codon
Other technologies
- Opal (armoured personnel carrier), a Polish vehicle
- Opal card, a smart card used on Sydney's transport network
- OPAL pipeline, a natural gas pipeline in Germany
Arts and entertainment
- The Opal (annual), an annual gift book from 1844 to 1849
- Opal (band), a 1980s rock band from Los Angeles, USA
- Opal (EastEnders) a character on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Opal (The Simpsons), a talk show host on The Simpsons
- Opal City, a fictional city in the DC Comics universe
- Opal, a fusion gem on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe
Ships
- HMS Opal, two ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Opal (PYc-8), a United States Navy patrol vessel during World War II
Other uses
- The Opal, a journal written by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum c. 1851
- Opal (fuel), a brand of petrol produced by BP Australia
- Hurricane Opal, a devastating hurricane in 1995
- Opal Telecom, a business broadband and telephone provider in the UK
- Opal Tower (Leeds), a skyscraper in Leeds, UK
- Open Air Laboratories Network (OPAL). an initiative in England to get the public more involved with nature
- Australia women's national basketball team or the Opals
- Opal, a product by Nói Síríus
See also
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