TA
Appearance
TA or ta may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Ta (island), Federated States of Micronesia
- Ta, Chiang Rai, Thailand
- Ta, Iran, Kordestan village
- Ta River, Virginia, US
- Province of Taranto, Italy
- Tel Aviv, Israel
People with the name
[edit]- Tạ, a Vietnamese surname (including a list of persons with the name)
- T.A. All Day, an American rapper
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]Gaming
[edit]- Total Annihilation, a 1997 real-time strategy game
- TrueAchievements, a website to track Xbox player achievements
Music
[edit]- TA (album), 2002 album by the post-rock band Trans Am
- Ta, name of a note in the solfège scale
Newspapers
[edit]- Tages-Anzeiger, of Switzerland
- Telemarksavisa, of Norway
- Thüringer Allgemeine, of Germany
Other uses in arts and media
[edit]- TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
- Third Age, a time period in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
Business, finance and law
[edit]- TA Luft, a German air pollution regulation
- Technical analysis, method to forecast pricing from trading history
- Trading as, a term denoting a business using a name other its legal owner
Education
[edit]- Teaching assistant, someone who aids an educator with class instruction
- Paraprofessional educator, a qualified, paid assistant of compulsory-age pupils
Language
[edit]- Ta (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- Ta (Indic), a consonant in Brahmic writing systems
- Ṭa (Indic), another consonant in Brahmic scripts
- Ta (Javanese) (ꦠ), a letter of the Javanese script
- Ta (kana), the た or タ kana of Japanese
- Tāʾ ت or ṭāʾ ط, an Arabic letter
- Tamil language, spoken in South Asia (ISO 639-1:
ta
) - TA, a gender-neutral third person pronoun in Chinese written as latin script "TA".
Organizations
[edit]Companies
[edit]- TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston
- TACA Airlines, an international airline headquartered in San Salvador, El Salvador (IATA code TA)
- Travelcenters of America, a North American truck stop chain
- Triumph-Adler, a German office equipment manufacturer
Military
[edit]- Territorial Army (India), an Army Reserve
- Territorial Army (United Kingdom), now Army Reserve
Schools
[edit]- Takoma Academy, a private school in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
- Talmudical Academy of Baltimore
- Thayer Academy, a private school in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
- Tuscaloosa Academy, a private school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Other organizations
[edit]- Telluride Association, an American non-profit for education programs
- Tennis Australia, an Australian sports governing body
- Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy NGO based in New York City
Science and technology
[edit]Biology, medicine and psychology
[edit]- Takayasu's arteritis
- Terminologia Anatomica, an international standard for human anatomical nomenclature
- Tibialis anterior muscle
- Transactional analysis, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s
- Transversus abdominis muscle
Physics and chemistry
[edit]- Tantalum, symbol Ta, a chemical element
- Teraampere, a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
- Transient absorption spectroscopy, a type of time-resolved spectroscopy
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- EMC TA, an American diesel-powered locomotive
- Technician or technical assistant, in laboratories
- Teraannum, a unit of time equal to 1012 years
- Terminal adapter, a device that connects a terminal computer to an ISDN network
- Thematic analysis, a research method in social and applied sciences
- Traffic announcement (radio data systems), a feature of radio data systems
- Traffic Advisory, a TCAS alert