PBA may refer to:

Places

Province of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...

, 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, known as West Haymarket Arena during construction and commonly referred to as PBA, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the West Haymarket District of Lincoln, Nebraska, just southwest of the University of Nebraska–L ...

, a sports arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA *

PeoplesBank Arena The PeoplesBank Arena, (originally known as the Hartford Civic Center and formerly as the XL Center) is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Owned by the City of Hartford, it is managed by the qu ...

, a sports arena in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Transportation

Thalys PBA Thalys (French: ) was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord and both Amsterdam Centraal and German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund, both via ...

, trainsets of the SNCF TGV Réseau

Aviation

Provincetown-Boston Airlines Provincetown-Boston Airlines was a regional airline in the United States that operated from 1949 until it merged with Britt Airways in 1989. It operated a route network in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and at one time was the ...

(IATA airline code: PT; ICAO airline code: PBA) USA; defunct * PB Air (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 Industry self-regulation, self-regulatory body for the country's advertising industry until its c ...

, formerly the Philippine Board of Advertising *

Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) is a private nondenominational Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida. PBA's nine colleges focus on the liberal arts with a select collection of professional studies. In 2024, PBA's undergraduat ...

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 lar ...

, or Patrolmen's Benevolent Association *

PBA Partylist Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (), commonly known as the PBA Partylist, is a party-list organization in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It represents the interests of Filipino sportspeople, advocating for policies and programs that ...

, 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 Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia ...

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 Mechanicsville, Virginia, and currently owned by the Lucky Strike Entertainment Corpor ...

, 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 terminates and removes an intact fetus from the uterus. The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of ...

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 a ...

* 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, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof environment external to the operating system as ...

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 vari ...

, a mathematical method of risk analysis *

Pseudobulbar affect Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), or emotional incontinence, is a type of affect disorder connected to Neurological condition, neurological conditions. It is characterized by brief, intense, uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughter, laughing. The ...

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