plural of HAL

plural of Hal

A diminutive of the male given names Henry, Harold and Harry.

(software) Acronym of hardware abstraction layer.

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

(anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.

(dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.

(transitive) To greet; salute; hail. / (transitive) To beseech; adjure.

Alternative form of hawse

(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.