Wikipedia / Opal (disambiguation)
Wikipedia / Opal (disambiguation)
Opal is a gemstone.
Opal or OPAL may also refer to:
Places
Canada
Opal Hills, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Opal Cone, a volcano in British Columbia
United States
Opal, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Opal, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
Opal, Virginia, a census-designated place
Opal, Wyoming, a town
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
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
Open Air Laboratories, an initiative in England to get the public more involved with nature
Computing
Opal programming language, developed at Technische Universität 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
Physics
Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor, a scientific facility in Sydney, Australia
OPAL experiment and detector, of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN
Space
OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) Project, observation project of the Hubble Space Telescope
Arts and entertainment
The Opal (annual), an annual gift book from 1844 to 1849
Opal (band), a 1980s rock band from Los Angeles, US
Jack Stauber's OPAL, a 2020 short film that premiered on Adult Swim
Fictional entities
Opal (EastEnders) a character on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Opal (The Simpsons), a talk show host on The Simpsons
Opal Otter, the mother of Peanut, Baby Butter and Jelly Otter in "PB&J Otter"
Opal City, a fictional city in the DC Comics universe
Opal, a fictional character in the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe
Opal, a fictional character in the Nickelodeon show The Legend of Korra
Opal, a Pokémon character in the video games Pokémon Sword and Shield
Ships
HMS Opal, two ships of the British Royal Navy
USS Opal (PYc-8), a United States Navy patrol vessel during World War II
Transportation
Opal (fuel), a brand of petrol produced by BP Australia
Opal (armoured personnel carrier), a Polish vehicle
Opal card, a smart card used on Sydney's transport network
Other uses
OPAL pipeline, a natural gas pipeline in Germany
The Opal, a journal written by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum c. 1851
Opal (sea otter), a sea otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Tropical Storm Opal, several tropical cyclones worldwide have been named Opal
Opal Telecom, a former UK business broadband and telephone provider, now known as TalkTalk Business
Opal Tower (Leeds), a skyscraper in Leeds, England
Opal Tower (Sydney), a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia
Australia women's national basketball team or the Opals
Opal, a product by Nói Síríus
See also
Upal, a town in Xinjiang, China