PBA may refer to:

Places

Province of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...

, a province in Argentina

Facilities and structures

Pine Bluff Arsenal The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a United States Army installation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, about eight miles northwest of Pine Bluff and thirty miles southeast of Little Rock. Pine Bluff Arsenal is one of nine Army installations in the United ...

, Jefferson County, Arkansas, USA; a military installation near the city of Pine Bluff *

Pinnacle Bank Arena Pinnacle Bank Arena is a 15,500-seat indoor arena in the West Haymarket District of Lincoln, Nebraska. It was completed in 2013 and replaced the Bob Devaney Sports Center as the home of the University of Nebraska's men's and women's basketball ...

, a sports arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Transportation

* Thalys PBA, trainsets of the SNCF TGV Réseau

Aviation

Provincetown-Boston Airlines Provincetown-Boston Airlines was an airline that operated between 1949 and 1989. The airline operated a route network in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and at one time was the largest commuter airline in the United States be ...

(IATA airline code: PT; ICAO airline code: PBA) USA; defunct *

PB Air PBair was an airline with its head office in the UBC II Building in Vadhana, Bangkok, Thailand. It operated scheduled domestic and international services. Its main base was Suvarnabhumi Airport. It ceased all operations in December 2009. His ...

(IATA airline code: 9Q; ICAO airline code: PBA) Thailand; defunct

Organizations

Advertising Board of the Philippines Advertising Board of the Philippines (Adboard) was an advertising trade association in the Philippines. Founded in 1974, it served as a centralized self-regulatory body for the country's advertising industry until its cesure of operations in 201 ...

, formerly the Philippine Board of Advertising *

Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) is a private Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida. The university's nine colleges focus on the liberal arts with a select collection of professional studies. In 2019, its undergraduate enrollme ...

Police Benevolent Association Police unions in the United States include a large number and patchwork variety of organizations. Of those Police union, unions which conduct labor negotiations on behalf of its police members, 80% are independent and have no affiliation to any larg ...

, or Patrolmen's Benevolent Association *

PBA Partylist Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta () also known as the PBA Partylist is a political organization which had partylist representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It aims to represent the interest of Filipino sportspeople. History ...

, or Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta, a political party in the Philippines

Sports leagues

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the se ...

Professional Bowlers Association The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the PBA membership consists of over 3,000 members worldwide. Member ...

, professional tenpin bowling organization in the United States

Other uses

* Lead-Acid Battery (PbA) *

Partial-birth abortion Intact dilation and extraction (D&X, IDX, or intact D&E) is a surgical procedure that removes an intact fetus from the uterus. The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. In U ...

or intact dilation and extraction *

Peroxybenzoic acid Peroxybenzoic acid is an organic compound with the formula C6H5CO3H. It is the simplest aryl peroxy acid. It may be synthesized from benzoic acid and hydrogen peroxide, or by the treatment of benzoyl peroxide with sodium methoxide, followed by ...

* Phone Book Access, a

Bluetooth profile In order to use Bluetooth, a device must be compatible with the subset of Bluetooth ''profiles'' (often called services or functions) necessary to use the desired services. A Bluetooth profile is a specification regarding an aspect of Bluetooth-b ...

Pre-boot authentication Pre-boot authentication (PBA) or power-on authentication (POA) serves as an extension of the BIOS, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof environment external to the operating system as a trusted authentication layer. The PB ...

Probability bounds analysis Probability bounds analysis (PBA) is a collection of methods of uncertainty propagation for making qualitative and quantitative calculations in the face of uncertainties of various kinds. It is used to project partial information about random varia ...

, a mathematical method of risk analysis *

Pseudobulbar affect Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), or emotional incontinence, is a type of emotional disturbance characterized by uncontrollable episodes of crying, laughing, anger or other emotional displays. PBA occurs secondary to a neurologic disorder or brain i ...

, the pathological expression of laughter, crying, or smiling * Project bank account