HAL

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See also: hal, Hal, hál, hàl, hâl, häl, hål, and hæl

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Etymology 1

Noun

HAL (plural HALs)

  1. (software) Acronym of hardware abstraction layer.

Etymology 2

From the fictional HAL 9000.

Noun

HAL (plural HALs)

  1. (fiction, computing) A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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