aqal

plural aqals

1. A kind of wigwam built by the nomadic Somali and Afar people.

alternative Achal

1. A town in Kalpin, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.

   Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria 5+ males holding territory in a popular grove in Aqal town. Described as rare in China (Cheng 1987).

   1992, R. Grimmett, H. Taylor, “Recent bird observations from Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, 16 June to 5 July 1988”, in Forktail, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 146

   2 more examples

   Separated by the line from Aksu, through Aqal to Markit, a suite of varicoloured mudstone, silty mudstone and sandy conglomerate interbeds with intercalations of andesite, basalt and dacite outcrops in the east, and in the west there is a set of granular carbonate and grey-back sandy mudstone interbeds with the[…]

   1996, Field Trip Guide: Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Petroleum and Coal Geology, volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1112-10

   At Aqal, the Middle Ordovician Qilang and Yingan formations are c. 320 m thick, but are completely absent in the Mystery Canyon, 100 km to the west.

   2009, Sebastian Turner, Structural Evolution of the Northwest Tarim Basin, China, Imperial College London, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2021, page 64

   Synonyms: Aqiale

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of all quadrants, all levels (“a kind of grid used in integral theory, with four quadrants covering an interior-exterior and an individual-collective scale”).