ASL

See also: a/s/l and asl

English

Proper noun

ASL

2. Initialism of American Sign Language.

   Hypernyms: sign language < language

   Coordinate terms: HSL, JSL, see others

   • 2018 July 13, Shoshi Parks, “How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language”, in Atlas Obscura‎, archived from the original on 29 March 2025:

     Whereas American Sign Language could have extended into Nicaragua by the 1980s, as it did in neighboring Costa Rica where it combined with a locally developed sign language in the 1960s, Nicaragua’s geo-political isolation prevented ASL from entering the country, notes Shepard-Kegl.

3. Initialism of Advanced Squad Leader.
4. (software, copyright law) Initialism of Apache Software License.

Hyponyms

• (American Sign Language): BASL

Phrase

ASL

1. Alternative form of asl (“age, sex, location”).
2. Initialism of above sea level.
3. (programming) Initialism of arithmetic shift left, a type of bitwise operation.

See also

• (above sea level): AAL, AGL

Anagrams

• -sal, -sal-, ALS, ALs, LAs, LSA, SAL, SLA, Sal, al's, als, las, sal, sal-