CTA may refer to:

Legislation

Children's Television Act The broadcast of educational children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under regulations colloquially referred to as the Children's Television Act (C ...

, American legislation passed in 1990 that enforces a certain degree of educational television * Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 * Criminal Tribes Act, British legislation in India passed in 1871 which labelled entire communities as criminal

Organizations

Asia

* Central Tibetan Administration * China Tourism Academy * Chinese Taoist Association *

Crystal Thai Airlines U Airlines ( th, ยู แอร์ไลน์) was
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Cairo Transportation Authority Cairo Transport Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit within Cairo, and the largest operator in Egypt. CTA operates buses, a surface metro, ferries and river buses. Through its subsidiary Greater Cairo Bus Company (GCBC) it operates buse ...

* Central de los Trabajadores Argentinos *

Cyprus Turkish Airlines Cyprus Turkish Airlines Limited ( tr, Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları Ltd. Şti. (KTHY)) was a Turkish Cypriot airline that served as the flag carrier for Northern Cyprus. Until its collapse in June 2010, Cyprus Turkish Airlines was the primary air ...

* Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) *

CTA International CTA International is an equal-shares joint venture company between defence companies Nexter and BAE Systems. CTAI is based in Bourges, France, and has been established to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapons and ammunition. The compa ...

North America

California Teachers Association The California Teachers Association (CTA), initially established in 1863, is one of the largest and most powerful teachers' unions in the state with over 300,000 members and a high political profile in California politics. The teachers' union is ba ...

, a labor union *

California Technology Agency The Department of Technology of the state of California, formerly named the California Technology Agency (CTA) is a Department in the Government Operations Agency with statutory authority over information technology (IT) strategic vision and plann ...

, a California cabinet-level state agency * Call to Action, a Christian organization * Canadian Transportation Agency, an independent tribunal of the Government of Canada * Canadian Trucking Alliance, a Canadian federation of provincial trucking associations * Central Toronto Academy, formerly called Central Commerce Collegiate * Chicago Transit Authority, the official public transportation authority for the city of Chicago *

Chisholm Trail Academy Chisholm Trail Academy (CTA) is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some second ...

Colorado Translators Association The American Translators Association (ATA) is the largest professional association of translation, translators and Interpreting, interpreters in the United States with nearly 8,500 members in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1959, membership ...

* Columbus Torah Academy * Consolidated Tape Association, which oversees stock market transactions in the United States *

Consumer Technology Association The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is a standard and trade organization representing 1,376 consumer technology companies in the United States. CTA works to influence public policy, holds events such as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ...

, formerly Consumer Electronics Association

Places

* Central African Republic (FIFA code: CTA) * Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (IATA code) * Central Texas Airport

Professions

*Chartered tax adviser, a tax accountant who is a member of the: ** Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK) ** Tax Institute (Australia) (Australia) *

Commodity trading advisor A commodity trading advisor (CTA) is US financial regulatory term for an individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or ...

Cryptologic technician Cryptologic Technician (CT) is a United States Navy enlisted rating or job specialty. The CT community performs a wide range of tasks in support of the national intelligence-gathering effort, with an emphasis on cryptology and signal intelligenc ...

administrative

Science

Cellulose triacetate Cellulose triacetate, (triacetate, CTA or TAC) is a chemical compound produced from cellulose and a source of acetate esters, typically acetic anhydride. Triacetate is commonly used for the creation of fibres and film base. It is chemically si ...

Chain transfer agent Chain transfer is a polymerization reaction by which the activity of a growing polymer chain is transferred to another molecule. :P• + XR' → PX + R'• Chain transfer reactions reduce the average molecular weight of the final polymer. Chain ...

Charge transfer amplifier The charge-transfer amplifier (CTA) is an electronic amplifier circuit. Also known as transconveyance amplifiers, CTAs amplify electronic signals by dynamically conveying charge between capacitive nodes in proportion to the size of a differentia ...

Cherenkov Telescope Array The Cherenkov Telescope Array or CTA is a multinational, worldwide project to build a new generation of ground-based gamma-ray instrument in the energy range extending from some tens of GeV to about 300 TeV. It is proposed as an open observatory a ...

, a project to build a system of very high energy gamma ray telescopes. * The medical jargon "Clear to auscultation", for lungs are clear when listening; see List of medical abbreviations: C * Cognitive Task Analysis * Computed tomography angiography * Conditioned taste aversion *

Constant temperature anemometry In meteorology, an anemometer () is a device that measures wind speed and direction. It is a common instrument used in weather stations. The earliest known description of an anemometer was by Italian architect and author Leon Battista Alberti ( ...

* CTA, a codon for the amino acid Leucine

Other

* Call to action (marketing), a web design tenet that requires each page to clearly indicate the desired user response *

Call to action (political) Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to oth ...

, a call to activists to participate in a

direct action Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to oth ...

or similar political activity * Call to arms * Cased telescoped ammunition *

Central technical area In broadcast facilities and television studios, a central apparatus room (CAR, pronounced "C-A-R"), central machine room, or central equipment room (CER), or central technical area (CTA), or rack room is where shared equipment common to all techn ...

, an equipment room used in broadcasting facilities *The Chicago Transit Authority, former name of the American band Chicago * Container Terminal Altenwerder *

Common Tasks for Assessment The Common Tasks for Assessment (or CTAs) are standardized tests that are part of a compulsory educational programme in South Africa. All Grade 9 Ninth grade, freshman year, or grade 9 is the ninth year of school education in some school systems ...

, an educational programme run by the Department of Education of South Africa * Common Travel Area, comprising Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands * Control area, controlled airspace that exists in the vicinity of an airport * Copyright transfer agreement, used in publishing * Template:CTA {{Disambiguation