Owl (disambiguation)

Owls are large nocturnal birds of prey.

Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:

Places
On Earth
In space
  • NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
  • Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Languages
  • Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
  • owl, ISO 639 code for the Old Welsh language
  • Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies

Military
  • HMS Owl, a ship and a shore establishment
  • USS Owl, two ships
  • CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
  • Curtiss O-52 Owl, a United States Army Air Corps observation aircraft used before and during World War II

Organizations and enterprises
  • Fraternal Order of Owls, a fraternal order of the United States
  • Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
  • Owl Club (Harvard), a men's only final club at Harvard College
  • Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
  • The Owl Club of South Africa
  • The Owl Drug Company, an American drugs company named after the owl

Sports teams

Transportation
  • Night Owl (train), Amtrak night train between Boston and Washington, District of Columbia; and a predecessor Owl train by the New Haven Railroad between New York and Boston
  • The Owl, Canadian National Railway night train between Regina and Saskatoon
  • Owl, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and later, Erie Lackawanna, night train between Hoboken and Buffalo
  • Owl, Southern Pacific night trains in Texas (Dallas-Houston) and California (San Francisco-Los Angeles)

Acronym
  • O. Winston Link, a photographer of steam locomotives
  • Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
  • Office Workstations Limited, UK software company and vendor of the hypertext program
  • Official Tournament and Club Word List, the North American Scrabble Players Association]]'s official word list for English Scrabble in North America
  • Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
  • Online Watch Link, Neighbourhood Watch management and messaging system
  • Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university writing center
  • Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), study project
  • OpenStreetMap Watch List, a service to track OpenStreetMap changes
  • Openwall Project (Owl), a hardened Linux distribution
  • Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series
  • Ostwestfalen-Lippe, an area in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
  • Overwatch League, professional esports league for the video game Overwatch
  • Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector
  • Web Ontology Language, a/k/a the OWL Ontology, a language for describing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web

Other uses
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