TA or ta may refer to:
Places
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Ta (island)
Ta is an island and Administrative divisions of the Federated States of Micronesia#Municipalities, municipality in the state of Chuuk State, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.
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, Federated States of Micronesia
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Ta, Chiang Rai
Ta ( th, ต้า) is a village and ''tambon'' (subdistrict) of Khun Tan District, in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, ...
, Thailand
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Ta, Iran, Kordestan village
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Ta River, Virginia, US
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Province of Taranto
The province of Taranto ( it, provincia di Taranto; Tarantino: ; Salentino: ), previously known as the province of the Ionian, is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Taranto. It has an area of , and a total popul ...
, Italy
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
, Israel
People with the name
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Tạ, a Vietnamese surname (including a list of persons with the name)
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T.A. All Day, an American rapper
Arts, entertainment and media
Gaming
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Total Annihilation
''Total Annihilation'' is a real-time strategy video game created by Cavedog Entertainment, a sub-division of Humongous Entertainment, and was released on September 26, 1997 by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Two expansion packs ...
'', a 1997 real-time strategy game
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TrueAchievements
TrueAchievements is a website that tracks player's achievements and Gamerscore for games and applications for the Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Games for Windows - Live, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 platfo ...
, a website to track Xbox player achievements
Music
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''TA'' (album), 2002 album by the post-rock band Trans Am
* Ta, name of a note in the
solfège
In music, solfège (, ) or solfeggio (; ), also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach aural skills, Pitch (music), pitch and sight-reading of Western classical music, Western music. Solfège is ...
scale
Newspapers
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Tages-Anzeiger
''Tages-Anzeiger'' (), also abbreviated ''Tagi'' or ''TA'', is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland.
History and profile
The paper was first published under the name ''Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und K ...
'', of Switzerland
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Telemarksavisa
''Telemarksavisa'' is a Norwegian newspaper, published in Skien in Telemark county.
''Telemark Arbeiderblad'' was started on 1 October 1921 as a reaction to the perceived moderate stance of Skien's labour newspaper ''Bratsberg Demokraten''. Howe ...
'', of Norway
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Thüringer Allgemeine
''Thüringer Allgemeine'' (TA) is a German newspaper with its head office in Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in ...
'', of Germany
Other uses in arts and media
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TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
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Third Age
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, began when the Ainu (Middle-earth), Ainur entered Arda (Middle-earth), Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of l ...
, a time period in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
Business, finance and law
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TA Luft
Germany has an air pollution control regulation titled "Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control" (''Technische Anleitung zur Reinhaltung der Luft'') and commonly referred to as the ''TA Luft''.
The first version of the ''TA Luft'' was establ ...
'', a German air pollution regulation
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Technical analysis
In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for analysing and forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis use many of the sam ...
, method to forecast pricing from trading history
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Trading as
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market (economics), market.
An early form of trade, barter, s ...
'', a term denoting a business using a name other its legal owner
Education
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Teaching assistant
A teaching assistant or teacher's aide (TA) or education assistant (EA) or team teacher (TT) is an individual who assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities. TAs include ''graduate teaching assistants'' (GTAs), who are graduate school ...
, someone who aids an educator with class instruction
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Paraprofessional educator
A paraprofessional educator, alternatively known as a paraeducator, para-pro, instructional assistant, educational assistant, teacher's aide or classroom assistant, is a teaching-related position within a school generally responsible for specializ ...
, a qualified, paid assistant of compulsory-age pupils
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Teaching assistant (United Kingdom)
A teaching assistant, educational assistant or learning support assistant (often abbreviated to TA, EA or LSA; sometimes classroom assistant) in schools in England and Wales is a person who supports pupils in the classroom. Duties can differ drama ...
Language
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Ta (cuneiform)
The cuneiform ta sign is a common, multi-use sign of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It also has a sumerogrammic usage for TA, for example in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', for Akkadian language ...
, a cuneiform sign
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Ta (Indic), a consonant in Brahmic writing systems
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Ṭa (Indic)
Ṭa is a consonant of Indic abugidas. It is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta script, Gupta letter . As with the other retroflex consonants, ''ṭa'' is absent from most scripts not used for a la ...
, another consonant in Brahmic scripts
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Ta (Javanese)
is a syllable in the Javanese script that represents the sounds /t̪ɔ/ and /t̪a/. It is transliterated to Latin as "ta", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "to". It has two other forms (''pasangan''), which are and (if followed by ' ...
(ꦠ), a letter of the Javanese script
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Ta (kana)
Ta (hiragana: た, katakana: タ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent . た originates from the Chinese character
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the Written Chinese, writing o ...
, the た or タ kana of Japanese
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Tāʾ
Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw , Hebrew Tav , Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also gives ri ...
ت or
ṭāʾ
Teth, also written as or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ṭēt , Hebrew
Tēt , Aramaic Ṭēth , Syriac Ṭēṯ ܛ, and Arabic . It is the 16th letter of the modern Arabic alphabet. The Persian ṭa is ...
ط, an Arabic letter
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Tamil language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Pudu ...
, spoken in South Asia (ISO 639-1:
ta)
Organizations
Companies
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TA Associates
TA Associates, founded in 1968, is one of the early modern-era private equity firms in the United States. The firm leads buyouts and minority recapitalizations of profitable growth companies. TA invests across five industry groups: technology, hea ...
, a private equity firm based in Boston
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TACA Airlines
Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, (''Air Transports of the American Continent'', known and branded formerly as TACA International), operating as Avianca El Salvador, is an airline owned by Kingsland Holdings based in El Salvador. As ...
, an international airline headquartered in San Salvador, El Salvador (IATA code TA)
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Travelcenters of America
TravelCenters of America LLC is the largest publicly traded full-service truck stop and travel center company in the United States. The company operates full service centers, convenience stores, and restaurants under the TravelCenters of America, ...
, a North American truck stop chain
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Triumph-Adler, a German office equipment manufacturer
Military
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Territorial Army (India)
The Territorial Army (TA) of India is an auxiliary military organisation of part-time volunteers that provides support service to the Indian Army. It is composed of officers, junior commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers and other per ...
, an Army Reserve
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Territorial Army (United Kingdom)
The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army. It is separate from the Regular Reserve whose members are ex-Regular personnel who retain a statutory liability for service. The Army Reserve was known as the Ter ...
, now Army Reserve
Schools
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Takoma Academy
Takoma Academy is a parochial, co-educational high school located in Takoma Park, Maryland operated by the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Chris ...
, a private school in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
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Talmudical Academy of Baltimore
The Talmudical Academy of Baltimore or TA (Hebrew: ישיבת חפץ חיים) is a K–12 yeshiva founded in 1917. Its present campus, located at 4445 Old Court Road, includes a pre-school building, an elementary school building, a middle school ...
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Thayer Academy
Thayer Academy (TA) is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. The academy, conceived in 1871 at the bequest of General Sylvanus Thayer, known as the father of the United Sta ...
, a private school in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
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Tuscaloosa Academy
Tuscaloosa Academy (TA) is a private school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It serves 452 students and has been described as a segregation academy.
History
The school opened with grades one through seven in September 1967, the year Alabama public schools ...
, a private school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Other organizations
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Telluride Association
The Telluride Association is a non-profit organization in the United States founded in 1910 by Lucien Lucius Nunn and named for his city of residence, Telluride, Colorado. The organization states its mission as providing young people with free e ...
, an American non-profit for education programs
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Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia Limited is the governing body for Tennis in Australia. It is owned by Australian states and territories. The association organises national and international Tennis tournaments including the Australian Open, the Australian Open ...
, an Australian sports governing body
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Transportation Alternatives
Transportation Alternatives (TransAlt, formerly T.A.) is a non-profit organization in New York City which works to change New York City's transportation priorities to encourage and increase non-polluting, quiet, city-friendly travel and decrease a ...
, an advocacy NGO based in New York City
Science and technology
Biology, medicine and psychology
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Takayasu's arteritis
Takayasu's arteritis (TA), also known as aortic arch syndrome, nonspecific aortoarteritis, and pulseless disease, is a form of large vessel granulomatous vasculitisAmerican College of Physicians (ACP). Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MK ...
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Terminologia Anatomica
''Terminologia Anatomica'' is the international standard for human anatomical terminology. It is developed by the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminology, a program of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomis ...
'', an international standard for human anatomical nomenclature
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Tibialis anterior muscle
The tibialis anterior muscle is a muscle in humans that originates along the upper two-thirds of the lateral (outside) surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. It acts to dorsiflex and inve ...
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Transactional analysis
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social interactions (or “transactions”) are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a b ...
, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s
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Transversus abdominis muscle
The transverse abdominal muscle (TVA), also known as the transverse abdominis, transversalis muscle and transversus abdominis muscle, is a muscle layer of the anterior and lateral (front and side) abdominal wall which is deep to (layered below) th ...
Physics and chemistry
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Tantalum
Tantalum is a chemical element with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73. Previously known as ''tantalium'', it is named after Tantalus, a villain in Greek mythology. Tantalum is a very hard, ductile, lustrous, blue-gray transition metal that is ...
, symbol Ta, a chemical element
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Teraampere, a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
* Transient absorption spectroscopy, a type of
time-resolved spectroscopy In physics and physical chemistry, time-resolved spectroscopy is the study of dynamic processes in materials or chemical compounds by means of spectroscopic techniques. Most often, processes are studied after the illumination of a material occurs, ...
Other uses in science and technology
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EMC TA, an American diesel-powered locomotive
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Technician
A technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficient in the relevant skill and technique, with a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles.
Specialisation
The term technician covers many different speciali ...
or technical assistant, in laboratories
* Teraannum, a unit of time equal to 10
12 year
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hou ...
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Terminal adapter
A terminal adapter or TA is a device that connects a terminal device – a computer, a mobile communications device, or other – to a communications network.
ISDN
In ISDN terminology, the ''terminal adapter'' connects a ''terminal'' (computer) ...
, a device that connects a terminal computer to an ISDN network
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Thematic analysis
Thematic analysis is one of the most common forms of analysis within qualitative research. It emphasizes identifying, analysing and interpreting patterns of meaning (or "themes") within qualitative data. Thematic analysis is often understood as a ...
, a research method in social and applied sciences
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Traffic announcement (radio data systems)
Traffic announcement (TA) refers to the broadcasting of a specific type of traffic report on the Radio Data System. It is generally used by motorists, to assist with route planning, and for the avoidance of traffic congestion
Traffic congest ...
, a feature of radio data systems
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Traffic Advisory, a TCAS alert
See also
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T & A (disambiguation)
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