TA explained

TA or ta may refer to:

Places

• 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

• Tạ, a Vietnamese surname (including a list of persons with the name)
• T.A. All Day, an American rapper

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

• Total Annihilation, a 1997 real-time strategy game
• TrueAchievements, a website to track Xbox player achievements

Music

• TA (album), 2002 album by the post-rock band Trans Am
• Ta, name of a note in the solfège scale

Newspapers

• Tages-Anzeiger, of Switzerland
• Telemarksavisa, of Norway
• Thüringer Allgemeine, of Germany

Other uses in arts and media

• TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
• Third Age, a time period in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

Business, finance and law

• 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

• Teaching assistant, someone who aids an educator with class instruction
  • Paraprofessional educator, a qualified, paid assistant of compulsory-age pupils
    • Teaching assistant (United Kingdom)

Language

• 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)

Organizations

Companies

• 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

• Territorial Army (India), an Army Reserve
• Territorial Army (United Kingdom), now Army Reserve

Schools

• 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

• 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

Biology, medicine and psychology

• 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

• 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

• 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

See also

• T & A (disambiguation)