TA

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

Music

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

Periodicals

• Tages-Anzeiger, a Swiss German-language newspaper published in Zurich
• Telemarksavisa, a Norwegian newspaper published in Skien
• Thüringer Allgemeine, a German newspaper based in Erfurt

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
• Third Age, a time period in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Total Annihilation, a 1997 computer game

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

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 organization that provides education programs
• Tennis Australia, the Australian tennis body
• Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy NGO based in New York City

Language

• Ta (Indic), a consonant of Indic abugidas
• Ṭa (Indic), a consonant of Indic abugidas
• Ta (Javanese) (ꦠ), a letter in the Javanese script
• Ta (kana), the た or タ kana in the Japanese language
• Tāʾ ت or ṭāʾ ط, an Arabic letter
• Tamil language (ISO 639-1 language code "ta")

Science and technology

Biology, medicine, and psychology

• 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 ("Ta"), chemical element 73
• Tera-ampere or terampere, an SI unit of electric current equal to 10¹² Amperes
• 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
• Traffic announcement (radio data systems), a feature of radio data systems

Other uses

• Ta, an expression of gratitude in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Ta-ta, a parting phrase in the UK.
• TA Luft, a German air pollution control regulation
• Teaching assistant, an individual who assists a university or college professor with instructional responsibilities
  • Teaching assistant (United Kingdom), a classroom aide in schools
• Technical analysis, the study of the trading history of a market to predict future prices
• Trading as, a term used to denote a business using a name other than the name of its owner(s)

See also

• T & A (disambiguation)